Today I tried a new circuit type thing. It made me work hard. That makes me smile ![]()
1. 5 min warmup on dreadmill.
2. 10 min easy run (10.16/mm pace or 5.7 MPH.)
3. 12 pushups
4. 5 min running (10.54/mm pace or 5.5 MPH)
5. 24 crunches
6. 5 min running (10.54/mm pace or 5.5 MPH)
7. 20 reverse crunches
8. 5 mins walking on dreadmill
9. 20 twists with 8 lb. medicine ball. I don’t know what these are called, I learned them last Friday. You start standing with your legs hip-width apart, holding the medicine ball at chest level. Then you twist and sink into a full lunge, so your legs are now in a side-lunge 90 degrees from the direction you were facing at the start, and the medicine ball is at waist height 180 degrees from where you started. I did 20 – so 10 in each direction. It helps to do these with the mirror behind you so when you twist you can see if you’ve brough the med ball all the way around.
10. 10 of these on each side: http://www.workoutbox.com/exercises/back-exercises/squat-medicine-ball-twist-low-to-high/.
11. Then my favorite – hold 18 lb medicine ball (I started at 14 lbs and worked my way up.) Stand in front of a BOSU. Squat down and sit on the BOSU, ball at chest height. Stand and lift ball overhead, dip back into tricep dip. Return ball to chest height and repeat. I think I did 16 of those.
Then I stretched with a dash of Yoga.
On your elbows like a plank or on your palms like a push up?
For extra credit and cut abs, do this balancing on one leg on a bosu ball. Engage your abs and clench your glutes for stability. I never do situps and still get defined abs with this exercise! Even after having a bebe…