Week 3 was a whole lot more motivating.
Its because I now have geared my mind (or at least for the past week, I did) to go workout when I was having writer’s block.
Lets get straight to it, nothing else to write 🙂
MONDAY: BEACH YOGA (TONE IT UP)
I haven’t done this one in ages. This was almost the first Yoga workout that I tried to get me interested in it. It was really relaxing. Rem
Remember my last week ended with that crazy Pumps and Iron workout on Sunday? Yeah, my abs were aching for 4 days (at least). So I figured that Yoga would be a good idea to stretch out my abs. It did but it also worked it like mad. I always forget that Yoga is very abs heavy…
Its imprinted in my brain now. I assure you of that.
WEDNESDAY: 50 MINS TOTAL BODY WORKOUT (POPSUGAR)
This is a little trickier because its five 10 minutes workouts so I’ll try to see if I can get the videos since its hard to embed the Popsugar videos from their video player. Easier on YouTube.
If you just want to check it on one post and flip through it, click HERE!
Part 1: Light Cardio and Core Warmup
A pretty good warm-up. It definitely get the blood going and ready to move on to the more intense stuff.
Part 2: Cardio Focus and Calorie Burner
This one works fairly well, except while I’m working out its hard to focus so much on the whole body coordination and it took a lot of effort to get some of the moves right. I’m guessing the second time will be better.
Part 3: Arms and Shoulders
My weakness is arms and shoulders. Kind of sad because I used to do dragon boat and that should be my forte if anything, although there’s a whole lot of abs work involved and the whole body. A common misconception non-dragonboaters might have. Anyways, my shoulders are extremely weak and I’m trying to strengthen it right now. This workout was pretty intense. Its nice to have the 3lbs because it was the perfect weight. Hopefully I’ll be able to go up to 5lbs after a few more weeks.
Part 4: Legs and Bottom
I didn’t actually do the full 10 minutes for this one because I didn’t go and search out the YouTube version. The one on Popsugar TV was really lagging and it was a tad inhumane to do it like a million times more than the fit instructors there were doing. And I wasn’t a huge fan of the workout so I just moved along.
Part 5: Yoga Cooldown
I’m pretty happy with this yoga workout. The variations and whatnot were really good. It was a cooldown but it still had a good bit of work involved. Plus, the instructor is one of the best I’ve tried out. I didn’t really have to watch her, provided you have a general knowledge of what bench pose, warrior 1 and warrior 2 is.
Since I cut a little off of the Part 4. The whole thing took me about 45 minutes to do. Pretty efficient total body workout.
I had planned to get another workout in on Saturday night or Sunday evening but I wasn’t feeling well on Saturday night so I skipped it instead. Sleep was a little more important.
That was my workout week! I’m all better now. Just a little bug that hit me for an evening apparently.
Before I go, here’s a little workout inspiration:
Happy Monday! 🙂
Tranquil Dreams 