I hope you’re all having a great weekend! I have a very busy weekend, but everything planned is a lot of fun and I get to see a lot of people, so it’s alright by me! I’m also excited because this upcoming week is my last week of classes and they’re all make-up days for the days we missed over the semester for holidays. In other words, several are cancelled because the teachers didn’t need the extra day!
This past week was week 6 for Tina’s Best Body Boot Camp, which means we only have 2 weeks and one phase left! As I mentioned last week, I’m editing the workouts for this week. Although I’m following the general plan of 3 days of strength and then cardio/intervals, I’m not really doing the workouts… As I said before I’m not a circuit/burpee fan so if I’m dreading the workout then that just doesn’t make it fun for me. Am I being a baby about it? Yea. Am I okay with that? Yea. Right now I have too much stress to not look forward to my workouts!
Anyway, speech over. Here were my workouts this past week:
Monday – 20 minute elliptical warm up, then a full body strength workout. I love making up my own strength workouts while I’m at the gym. My only rule is that I do supersets, which means I do exercise A, then exercise B, then back to A for set 2 and so on until I do 3 sets of each exercise. That way I’m not sitting between sets, much more efficient!
Tuesday – 50 minutes of cardio on various machines. This included a .5 mile run after which I decided not to run for 2 weeks… ugh.
Wednesday – 30 minutes of upper-body supersets with cardio mixed in. To keep my heart rate up, I did 10 minutes of warm up on the elliptical, then after each superset I jumped back on for 5 minutes. Did 30 minutes total on the elliptical.
Thursday – Spinning! I needed to workout super early Thursday so I could shower and then walk to my PT appointment at 7:30, so I figured the 5:45am spinning class would get my butt out the door. Unfortunately afterwards my PT told me spinning is doing no favors to my IT band… So no more of that.
Friday – REST
Saturday – Yoga Sculpt at Core Power Yoga. I’ll talk more about this when I re-cap my weekend, but I went to a sculpt class since I’d gone a few times last year thinking it would be fun. Oh it was fun, and ROUGH! Haha I am so sore this morning!
Sunday – ?? Haven’t decided! As I’m writing this I kind of want to just go get some school work done since I’ve done zero this weekend before the events I have to attend later. So today might be another rest day, or I might try and work in some long walks. Either way I think I’ll be taking it easier, I just want to move a bit to help with my soreness.
Here is my workout plan for next week:
We got the FINAL PHASE from Tina a few days ago and I’m really excited about it! This phase includes several tabata style workouts, and I love that because you only have to do the move for 20 seconds (with 10 seconds rest) a few times. For some reason it seems so much more manageable to me if you just have to push it for 20 seconds and then you get a break!
I’m also traveling to Charleston, SC on Thursday evening this week for a wedding on Saturday, and then coming back on Sunday afternoon. I don’t know what my plans are on Friday yet, so if I can work in an at-home version of Workout C from Boot camp, that’s great. Or I might try and take a class for fun because I think they have a barre class studio on the roof of a building! And if I don’t workout? That’s okay too.
Saturday I know I’m going to Jazzercise with my friend Amy Lee. We went for a little over a year together about 4 times a week and loved it. I miss going with her! Then Sunday I know I’ll be booked so I’m calling that a rest day so I can focus on enjoying my time there and not worrying about exercise.
I’m excited! It will be a busy week but hopefully a good one!
What’s your favorite exercise class?
Do you try and plan workouts when you travel, or do you take off?