Let us know how yours look.. get some new ideas to mix things up 💪
Mine are 3 times a week..
I speedwalk 30mins on treadmill with a 3 min warm up and 3min cool down..I wear weighted gloves during it and on the last 10mins do ten min punch out intervals 60 sec punching and 45sec break.
Then I move on to my weights starting with my lighter ones working my way through to the 5Kg with assorted lifts
Squats two sets of 30
Sit ups 3sets of 40
Then I repeat the weight routine
The squats and the sit ups
This routine is 1hr and ten mins 💪
Thanks in advance for comment's would be great to see what you all do 💪🥇
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I’m doing a lot of Pilates at the moment, and otherwise Yoga and rowing.
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Fantastic program you have there. 2 days a week I chase toddler hugs around the garden. He accounts for my weight lifting too coming in at 12kg. I like to walk and cycle on non run days and like Instructor57 eating cake is essential. Happy running 🤗
Absolutely, it is so wonderful to be a fit and active granny, actually, I’m probably fitter and more active as a granny than I was as a new mother all those years ago 🙆🏼♀️
I do the toddler running too, also I’m increasing my weight training as new baby is slowly putting on weight! Cake, yes always, though I prefer chocolate biscuits if given a choice. Best thing about being a granny, they go home at night and I can get a good nights restorative sleep!
I agree with all that except if push comes to shove I’ll just take the chocolate and someone else can get the biscuit 🤣
Today is my weight training. I start with 20 press ups, followed by 35 sit ups, followed by 2x5k dumbbells, then by 2x10k dumbbells, followed by 20x barbell and sometimes 30k barbell exercises. I end with a 5 minute cool down with no weights. On other days I may just run up the stairs and do a few stair squats. I walk 2 miles around a lake every day, including running days and occasionally I cycle, I have a racing bike.
Gym for me, it was shoulders and calves this morning. I do different body parts 4 - 5 times a week, and I love how it makes everything stronger 💪🏽, although never legs before a long run day! I foam roll and walk a lot too. Well done on your workout 🏋️♀️! 😊😊😊
Mine is 15 mins each morning (apart from the mornings of my weekly long run). Firstly,
40 squats
40 press ups
Then any four from these, just using a resistance band,
15 single leg balance dead lifts, each leg
15 single leg standing 180° hip twists, each side
20 clam shells, each side
20 single leg back arches, each leg
30 lateral strides, each side
I’ve discovered a kettle bell which one of our daughters must have left behind when fleeing the nest, still in its box! I’ll have to work out how to use it one of these days. I’m also quite taken by a qigong channel on youtube - it looks so graceful but I suspect much harder than it looks.
Honestly? Nothing. I've got quite enough on my plate with work and life and maratrail training as it is, and I hate the idea of exercise machines and all that, even if I had time.
I run twice a week, do a Pilates class one evening a week (which I love 💓) and do an upper body weights workout on Saturday morning. I do the workout because I’m very conscious that my running tones the bottom half and my upper body remains flabby. I didn’t want to end up looking like a big triangle 😂😂. It’s also something I can do with my hubby. It consists of:
My non run days usually involve a beach dog walk and some physio prescribed exercises. I have forgotten the names of some of them! It is a mixture of strength and stretch exercises, with particular attention on my knees. I have added in some calf/ achilles stuff (raises and eccentric heel dips). I am now back to my swimming group too, which helps to loosen things up. We are on holiday now. I am still running regularly and every day includes a long walk which has plenty of ups and downs........we are sleeping very well! A dilemma today; it is pouring down. Should be a quiet day in with a book, but Garmin tells me I am on an 8 day goal streak! No rush to make a decision 🙂
I’m feeling very lazy after reading all these. I’m so not good at doing any weights/cross training, intermittent at best. I do do some lunges while cleaning my teeth at night, so 2 mins a day. Must set up a proper routine and maybe invest in some weights and resistance bands, my two 1kg hand weights don’t really cover much!
Non run days is a 30 minute walk minimum plus a Fiton strength session. I have a few choices there and maybe once a week I do a online yoga session plus daily physio exercises for my dodgy knee. Hubby says it’s ‘bulked’ me up! When I suggested that was the wrong word he suggested toned! 😂. I’ll take that. 😊
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