Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exercise. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Sliding Side Lunge

As promised (or threatened depending how you look at it haha) here is a leg and butt exercise to try and negate some of those calories from Super Bowl Sunday! I don't have these slider things so I just use paper plates instead. Be careful to not let your knee go past your toes when you lunge, if you push your butt back like you are going to sit in a chair it helps keep your knee from coming too far forward (and be careful to not slip while standing on the sliders...um, not that it happened to me or anything LOL). Obviously don't do this if it hurts or is uncomfortable, I'm not a trainer people so don't get mad or sue me if it doesn't work for you (!) but this is a good move (in addition to other types of lunges and squats) for your quads and booty! 

Oh, and if you aren't into today's post just wait for tomorrow's - mini bundt brownies! I'm such a hypocrite hahahahahahah.......




Slider Side Lunge

Sculpts outer booty and quads!
Begin with your weight shifted into your left leg, right foot on a slider. As you lower your booty down, push the slider out with your right leg so that you’re in a side lunge position. Make sure your left knee doesn’t go past your toes. Drag the slider back as you return to start.
Complete 14 reps, then switch sides x3

Thursday, August 18, 2016

30 Day Ab Challenge

Yesterday's post was about the delicious chocolate peanut butter dessert I made for my sister's birthday (click here for that post, but then come back here for some exercise haha!) so I thought it only right to follow that up by sharing with you the ab workout I found on Pinterest and
started last week.

I'm up to 40 sit-ups and tomorrow is a rest day - yay! So far it hasn't been as hard as I feared haha and I'm not all that sore so I'm going to keep going and see how far I can get...on the last day it's 125 sit-ups and 200 crunches, wow - will I be able to do that? I'm not doing the leg raises tho, they hurt my back.

I also started a hand-weight program at the same time following a book I have (Smart Girls Do Dumbbells) - every day they have a "menu" of a few fairly simple exercises to do, takes me about 15-20 minutes. So between that and the ab workout (and I walk a lot) at least I'm trying to do something healthy to balance out all the good food I've been eating lately :)

Anyone up for doing the ab challenge with me?