Fit Bit Friday 12
Good morning friends!
Phew! It’s finally Friday! It’s also the first day of fall, and things are certainly feeling fall-y around here. After a week of less than ideal weather, I’m so glad the weekend is only a few hours away. Since last weekend was spent packing, lifting, carrying, and unpacking boxes for my mum at her new house, I’m looking forward to a little R&R over the next couple of days. What have you got planned? In addition to seeing some friends, I’ve got a few of my September goals that I need to get cracking on because it’s already September 23rd!!
Over to regularly scheduled program, here’s your weekly Fit Bit Friday!!
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Work It Out
This is a routine that I made up on the treadmill pre-strength training session yesterday. I’d planned to do a lower body workout, but decided that I was too tired on Wednesday night to write one up so I multi-tasked during my 8.5 mile run and came up with an absolute beauty. I hope your lower bod is ready!
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The Fab 500 Workout
***Disclaimer: As with all workouts posted on Eat Spin Run Repeat, please check with a medical professional before beginning any exercise program. I am not a certified personal trainer and all workouts found on my blog are based only on my own experience.***
While this workout may give you the urge to scream out other words that start with the word F, I’ve decided to call it the Fab 500 workout because there are 500 reps in total and they will (after time) have your lower bod lookin’ fabulous! You’ll get the most difficult exercises out of the way near the beginning, then move on through some less heavily weighted exercises. A warning though – they won’t feel much easier after your legs make if through the first 200 reps! The weights listed are what I used, but please adjust for your fitness level.
Note: If you have joint issues in your lower body (for example, bad knees) I would recommend doing this workout with extreme caution, and make modifications for yourself as you go. Be careful – use zero weight if you need to!
Turn It Up
This week’s tune is Your Surrender by Neon Trees. I’ve been listening to this song for a couple of months now on XM Radio and I finally remembered to download it yesterday. Spin class participants, it’s coming to a workout near you soon!
Have A Read
- Top 5 Fitness Tracking Websites from International Business Times. Have you tried any?
- 8 questions to help you choose a good Pilates instructor – via Huffington Post. This was particularly interesting to me since my first Pilates experience was this past Monday. To my Pilates instructor readers, what do you think about this? Anything to add? It’s definitely given me some things to think about in the next one I go to!
Questions for today:
- Did you take the Real Age test that I talked about in yesterday’s post? If not, put it on your to-do’s this weekend!
- Any workout requests for next Friday?
- What are you most looking forward to this weekend?
I am in love with this song! Love Neon Trees
enjoy your relaxation time, angela!
i am working a lot this weekend, but that is a-ok with me!
I work Saturday…so I am looking forward to sleeping in Sunday morning!! Love your posts…you are so inspiring and you always seem to have it all together…<3
Happy Friday!
Enjoy your nice long sleep! I also have a nice lazy Sunday planned… hopefully my body (which usually gets up at 4:30 on weekdays) will let me sleep a bit longer! Have a wonderful weekend!
Wow, this workout seems hard, but I will challenge myself and give it a try this weekend. I bet you’ll get nice legs doing this a few times a week! No better time to shape up for next years bikini season!
Haha definitely, it’s never too early!
Holy crap! This workout sounds killer! I am most looking forward to some downtime this weekend. The week has been SO busy.
I am a Pilates instructor and I disagree with one of the comments in the article. Pilates is not meant to ever be so “meditative” that you know the moves so well you do not need to focus. In fact, the point of Pilates is to focus the entire time and on a variety of things, regardless of if you are advanced or not. This is something that a good Pilates instructor will communicate to you during the class. You can never lose focus, because if you lose your body position, rhythmic diaphragm breathing, as well as remembering to tighten your core, tilt your pelvis, stack your hips/keep them still, etc. then you are probably not doing the movement properly (each movement differs, but there are always a lot of things to remember). Joseph Pilates always said that if you aren’t doing it right, there is no point in doing it at all and you really must be quite self aware while practicing. Check out some of my articles on my website about Pilates http://www.jacquelinegaray.com/category/pilates/
I hope this helped!
Wow, thanks Jacqueline! I also wondered about the ‘meditative’ point. In the classes I’ve been to so far, one of the things I noticed is that the instructors aren’t nearly as soft in vocal tone as yoga instructors I’ve experienced. Their tone, paired with all the cues about when to inhale/exhale, which muscles to engage etc, seemed to make it difficult to get into any sort of meditative state. I’ll definitely check out some of your articles! Thanks again!
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okay….can I have that girls a** and legs in that first pic???
and 175 pound dumbbells??? girls you’re a maniac! Looks like an amazing workout…will def try it!!!
Lol no, that’s 17.5 lbs!! Sorry, the period is a bit hard to see! 175lbs would be just a bit too heavy!