Workout Wednesday: Quick and Dirty

For this week’s Workout Wednesday I wanted to share some of my favorite ways to fit a workout in when you are short on time. Like I mentioned yesterday, my life is super crazy these days and it is making it hard for me to spend a lot of time working out.

So what to do when you are short on time? Do one of the following workouts, they are fast and effective and sure to get you sweating.

• 5K Treadmill workout: An easy way to get a good speed workout in is to do a quick 5k on the treadmill. Start off at your easy pace and increase every few minutes until you get down to your 5k goal pace, or just a little faster. I guarentee by the end of the 3.1 miles you will be just as out of breath as an easy 5 miler, if not more.
• Weight Circuit: Pick 8-10 exercises and do them for a minute each. Set the exercises up so they are easy to transition to. Body weight exercises work best for this. Example: Squats, lunges, pushups, sit ups, jumping jacks, tricep dips, mountain climbers, burpees.
• Cardio Blast: Incorporate a few different types of cardio into one workout. Example: Run 1 mile, do 5 minutes of intervals on the elliptical, 5 minutes of Jump Rope, then end with 1 more mile.

What is your workout this Wednesday?

Workout Wednesday

Hi Friends. It’s been awhile since I gave you a legit workout Wednesday so heres one for ya.

This workout is all based on Kettlebells. I absolutely love using kettlebells because they are such a versatile piece of equipment. You can get a full body strength and cardio workout by using just one 10-15 lb kettlebell.

• Kettlebell Swings x 20
• Kettlebell deadlifts x 20
• Kettlebell 1 arm row x 15 (per arm)
• Kettlebell kickback x 15 (per arm)
• Kettlebell squat x20

Start with a 10 min cardio warm up, perform that circuit x 3 and end with a 10 min cooldown. You will have a complete total body workout in a short amount of time!

What is your workout this Wednesday?

Workout Wednesday

Happy Wednesday friends! Only two more days until the pup arrives

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For this week’s Workout Wednesday I wanted to talk about feelings. You know when you feel all mushy gushy inside? Those types of feelings.

Don’t worry I have a point to this.. The other day I got this comment from one of my loyal readers Kath 

As I pondered this question I came up with a few different answers.

Sometimes I feel awesome after my workouts. Sometimes I feel like I am going to die, but most the time I’d say I just feel accomplished.

I don’t really get a “runners high” after running but I do normally feel more relaxed, less stressed, and calmer then when I started. I also always feel a sense of accomplishment, especially after long runs. I think the fact that I can run 10 miles, or 12 miles, or a half marathon is pretty darn cool.

After my weight workouts, or cross training workouts I usually feel happy. I am happy to have fit a workout in that day, happy to have taken a break from my work day and sweated it out a little bit. These workouts don’t leave me exhausted like some running workouts do but they still have their purpose.

I tend to feel miserable after speed workouts, or really long runs when I didn’t fuel properly. With that misery is still that overwhelming sense of accomplishment because these are my hardest workouts. Sure they leave me crawling for my bed and wanting to avoid walking at all costs, but that total body fatigue feeling is sometimes pretty great.

Overall I’d say that how I feel about my workouts can pretty much be summed up by a quote Ali, who writes one of my favorite running blogs, frequently uses..

“You never regret a workout”

So true.

What was your workout today and how did you feel after?