Hi all! I wanted to get a quick post up about my workout that I did yesterday morning. I was in a time crunch so I put together some of my favorite moves to create a 25 minute full body power workout. Even though it was less than half an hour, I gave it my all and was pouring sweat by the end!
I was also pretty excited because I'm making some progress on my pull-ups (I swear all my strength goes to my lower body). I work on them a few times a week, and it's starting to pay off. I got one of those over-the-door ones from I think Bed Bath and Beyond for my birthday last year. One of the best presents I've ever asked for!
For the sliding lunges, I have slider discs that I use for those. If you don't have discs you can use a towel on a hard surface floor or just regular lunges with/without weights. I also used weights for the walking lunges, too and a resistance band for the ice skaters.
As promised here is my update! I have no idea what week I am on but over the past couple months there have been times where I haven't necessarily done an increase but just kinda hung out at those macros. I've been feeling great, and I actually have a cut planned starting in a little over a week. Simply just to see where my body is at and what muscles might be hiding ;)
I have been loving the changes I've seen with my body lately and particularly my quads that are showing up! The more I eat the more they lean out so you won't hear me complaining. The human body continues to amaze me.
Speaking of amazing, the other week was my rest week (praise the Lord) and I did an increase and actually dropped 2 pounds. Without working out! Seriously, though, I never even lose that much during a week where I'm cutting and working out, ha! No idea how it happened, but I'm not gonna question it.
So here are some of my recent progress pics!
The left picture is the last progress picture I could find because honestly I haven't taken a lot of pictures in well over a month and a half or more. I just recently started weighing myself again, which only lasted for two consecutive weeks and it's probably been a good two weeks since I last weighed myself. I've just been going by how I feel!
Anyone else have the problem of seeing muscles and then as soon as you take a picture they disappear?? That's how I feel about my quads haha! I swear there's more definition but the lighting in my room at 6am is not ideal.
And some shoulder growth too!
Overall, I'm really happy how things have gone, and I'm excited to start my cut. Depending on how things go with that and the reverse following it, I might start aiming for staying at maintenance and working on intuitive eating. I'm in no rush, though, because there's no timeline and I'm just doing it for fun and to learn more about my body.
So sharing my workouts with you guys has been going over really well, and I figured I would keep posting them periodically! I don't mind sharing my workouts at all even though I know tons of people like to keep it hush hush so they can charge ya later. So here are some freebies :)
Quads & Hamstrings (Monday)
Some of these are going to take some explanation because let's be honest when I develop these workouts they're for me, and I'm not thinking ahead to if I share them haha! The 7-7-7-7 leg extensions I've talked about before on my Instagram but I'll explain again here. What you do: 7 regular reps, then 7 reps with a pause at the contraction so at the top, then 7 half reps on the bottom, then 7 half reps at the top. All back-to-back to equal 1 whole set. Then repeat that 4 times. Warning: your legs might fall off. It's a pretty legit burn but I LOVE IT. I do about half the usual weight I do for leg extensions so about 85-90lbs.
The stiff legged dead lifts I use two 5 pound plates to put my toes on. This really targets my hamstrings as I'm forced to drive more through my heels with my toes elevated on the plate. I use a barbell for this but you can use dumbbells, too.
The jumping leg press I use the horizontal machine where you can select the weight rather than the regular angled leg press where you rack the plates yourself. I wouldn't recommend trying this out on the regular leg press if you don't have the horizontal machine I'm talking about. Anyway, here's a video to show what I mean:
So there you go! Let me know if you try out the workout!
Shoulders with some accessory chest work (this morning)
I tried out leaning lateral raises today and talk about a burn! All I did was grab on to the door frame to support me as I leaned over a bit. I did 3 sets of 12 on each arm. The front to lateral raises are exactly what they sound like: you do a front raise then once your arms are parallel to the ground in front of you then move them out to the sides like where you would've come up if you did a lateral raise. Then lower them from the top of the lateral raise position to the start position to finish 1 rep.
Let me know what other workouts you'd like to see! I can start sharing more of my back and arm workouts, too.
