I am a happy camper when I finish a week with a single Rest Day. While I believe in their importance, I heart exercising!
This week felt running/cardio heavy, relatively speaking (it wasn’t a 40 mile week), so I was overjoyed to end it with a heavy and sweaty WREC workout with P on Sunday.
The workout encompassed too many moves to remember, frankly, but I did my best to recall what went down. Each time I get to play at the WREC, I go nuts like a kid in a candy shop. Needless to say, walking will be rough tomorrow.
Workouts | Week of September 15
Monday – Love Your Body with Yoga + Simple Strength Workout (10/15lb.) + 30 sets of stairs
Tuesday – 30 min. run + (3x) 30 step-ups / 30 lunges / 30 jump squats
Wednesday – 3 sets of the Kettlebell & Dumbbell Workout (12 reps ea.) + 2 x 12 burpees + 2 x 12 spinal roll-ups + (2x) 5-Minute No-Crunches Core Workout
really wasn’t feeling a workout at the end of the day after two consecutive 4:45am wake-up calls
Thursday – Rest
Friday – 3.1 mile run + 75 step-ups // 75 lunges
Saturday – 40ish minute park run with P
Sunday – WREC DATE!
It went a little something like this…
warm-up:
- 1/2 mile indoor track run
- kettlebell swing tabata set @ 35lb.
“bench press” with dumbbells:
- 2 x 10 reps @ 40lbs.
- 2 x 6 reps @ 50 lbs.
barbell complex*: 6-5-4-3-2-1 reps @ 45-55lb. (+ several warm-up reps with 45lb. bar)
- deadlift + high-pull
- squat clean
- push press
- row
- box jumps
*complex courtesy of P
strength set (3x):
- 10 front-loaded lunges @ 45lb.
- 3-5 “jumping” pull-ups
- 5 decline spiderman push-ups
10 deadlifts @ 115lb.
10 minutes incline treadmill intervals + a few minutes incline walking (1.5 miles)
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Switching Up My Fitness Regimen (Again) + This Week’s Workouts
No Equipment Travel Workout
Half-Marathon Training // Week 9
Half-Marathon Training // Weeks 7 & 8
Half-Marathon Training // Week 5
What do you enjoy training the most, and do you have a particular exercise you love doing?
Tough questions! Lately, I’ve been loving training my upper body, but most of my workouts are full body. I “love to hate” jump squats and lunges.
I’m all about total body myself, as I feel that as a “runner” (I do 3 to 5 mile runs, with no marathon dreams!), I need to have lower body strength, and my upper body gets ignored if I don’t add in some good total body workouts.
The barbell complex is awesome, I will be trying that out tomorrow! Thanks so much for sharing!