My Week in Workouts

Ok so this is my personal workout schedule.  This is what works for ME! Everyone has different bodies and each different body requires different needs (food-wise and workout-wise!!).  If anyone has any interest in following MY plan then go for it.

Monday
-Light Ab circuit (repeat 3 times)
       -15 sky crunches with 15 pound weight (added in tricep as well)
       - 30 Elbows with 10 pound weight, feet in air
       - 20 scissors
       - 40 bicycle crunches
       -plank with leg lifts (15 on each side)

-1/2 hour-1 hour walk (I see walking as a necessity and not exercise)

-45 minute Cardio Boxing class

Tuesday
-Light Butt circuit (repeat 3 times)
      -30 second Mountain Climbers
      -12 Hip Extension
      -12 Donkey Kicks
     - 12 Hydrants
REPEAT ON OTHER SIDE
       -Swimmer kicks (30 seconds)
       -15 frog kicks

-30 minute Metabolic Effect/Boot Camp Workout with Dumbells. (I use 10lb-15lb depending on which exercise I'm doing because I have strong leg muscles but weak arm muscles).

-5 100m sprints

-45-1 hr walk around the track at night (very relaxing!)

Wednesday
-Light Ab Circuit
-1/2 hour-1 hour walk
-45 minute Cardio Boxing Class

Thursday
-Light butt circuit
-10 minute Upper Body Metabolic Effect workout with dumbbells (10-15 pounds)
-14 minute Lower Body Metabolic Effect workout with dumbbells (15 pounds)
-5 hill sprints
-45min-1hr walk

Friday (Day "OFF"!!)
-Light ab circuit
-45 minute Ashtanga Yoga (P90X video)
-45 minute Bikram Yoga (P90X video)
-1 hr walk

Saturday
-30 minute Interval Weight class (heavy dumbbells only)
-45 minute Cardio Boxing Class

Sunday
-"Pick a workout day".  Usually on Sundays I don't push myself and I let my body tell me which workout would be best for the day.  Sometimes I do boot camp at the gym, a 20 minute easy run with a circuit, interval weights with a light walk, or a hill/stadium workout.

Every day (no matter what) I also do 3 sets of 30 lunges without weights and 3 sets of 12 squats with 25lb dumbbells, along with 3 30 second planks (the planks are because I always sucked at them and I want to be able to do a plank for a minute).

Anyway, you should want to work out because it's fun and because it's beneficial toward your body.  Although you might be in pain after a hard lifting session, your body is actually thanking you for doing what you're meant to be doing.  Certain days I do more strenuous workouts than others, but I try to be active every day.  I know I should probably have a day of complete rest, but with my energy (and lack of  a JOB) it's difficult.  So unless you have nothing else to do in your life (like me) besides concentrate on your body, a 1 or 2 day break from working out is necessary.  That doesn't mean you can't enjoy a nice walk outside!

Also, I have one HUGE pet peeve: people who go on the eliptical for an hour and say they were working out.  Honestly, the eliptical does nothing.  You are way better off walking on a treadmill.  Yes, it's better than sitting on your ass, but I can't stand when people say they had a hard workout on the eliptical.  It's like an oxymoron.  And trust me-I'VE TRIED IT.  I've tried to do eliptical workouts (if they exist) and I don't understand.  Usually the people I see on the elipticals have a book or magazine in hand and they're just bored/looking to move.  BUT WAAHH BOO HOO I HAVE KNEE ISSUES--ok so get on a bike and do a 20 minute uphill resistance biking workout.  Don't bitch out on the eliptical.  Sorry, just a huge pet peeve.  I don't know but if I'm going to walk like a mile to the gym at 8am I want to at least get my time worth.  That means NO eliptical.