Getting Shredded Requires Sweating! Many people have this idea that to lose weight they have to spend 45 minutes on every piece of cardio equipment in the gym in one day. This is exhausting to your body, boring for you, and painful to watch. Please stop telling yourself you have to burn 1,000 calories on [continue reading]
This is a fun workout I’ve been playing around with lately as an alternative to regular tabatas. If you’re not familiar with the concept of “tabata” it’s a specific format for high intensity interval training (HIIT) that employs a sequence of 20 second work periods followed by 10 seconds of rest over a 4-minute period. [continue reading]
I love doing single-leg movements. They really challenge my balancing muscles and help me work on stabilizing my hips and core. Many people I work with have pelvic imbalances, so if you’re willing to really work on your form and watch yourself while you do this move, it can be incredibly helpful in isolating weaknesses [continue reading]
This workout hits your core and glutes hard. I go for 10 reps on these with heavier weight to really increase muscle growth and maximize fat burning. I like to have defined legs and glutes that look muscular, but still have that lean-body look. To really get definition and see your effort in the gym pay off, go [continue reading]
Happy Friday the 13th! My trainer always tells me to always go “past the finish line.” It’s a training technique that really sticks with me when the reps start adding up. Since I usually do 12 reps of everything, I added one more for today – because I can! And you can too! Once you [continue reading]
Some of my favorite circuits to write for myself include plyo that gets my heart rate up interspersed with weight training. This is a fun, fast circuit that targets your legs and gets your heart pumping. For this workout, I warmed up with a core series. Workout 3x 20 upper body crunch —>engage your core before [continue reading]
This was a quick workout I put together to work my legs, core and back. The back is often neglected in training, so I always make sure to incorporate it into my warmup, combo moves, and isolation training it as well. It can be tough in the gym sometimes to do circuits because other people [continue reading]
Tabata Hills is a workout I like to do that combines efficient high calorie burning with a great leg workout. Tabatas are a type of interval training in which you combine 20 seconds of work with 10 seconds of rest for consecutive repetitions. I like to do 5 minutes of tabata-style intervals, followed by 5 [continue reading]
Warm up: 10 min run *if you’re on a treadmill always set it to a 1% grade to simulate the resistance you’d feel outside Set your timer to go off every 30 seconds (or every 1 minute and start at the 30 second mark, work til timer goes off) Do the following exercises at 30 [continue reading]