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AnnaCruzDC
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Hello all! I'm posting workout week so I can get suggestions or advice. Let me know what you think.

Sunday: 60 min spinning, abs, back, leg lifts

Monday: 60 min elliptical, 50 push-ups, arms (free weights)

Tuesday: abs, back, leg lifts

Wednesday: 60 min spinning, 60min powerflex class

Thursday: 60min bootcamp class

Friday: BREAK

Saturday: 60min spinning, 60 min powerflex class

diet consists of:

7am - Apple, boiled egg

9am - grapes

11am - tilapia and spinach

3pm - Pear, grapefruit/oatmeal bar

7pm - salmon brocolli

I snack a lot!! I've resisted eating chocolate and ice cream, but on the weekends I'll have a small vanilla softserve on a waffle cone. YUM! I recently gave up chicken and beef (never really ate it). I tried to eat beef jerkey the other day, but it tasted disgusting in mouth. I guess body is used to only fish now. I also started working out in the morning, versus night. This has helped me with sleeping problem -- now I just konk out. :)
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Post by clare_1 »

You have a lot of cardio in your workouts. You also are working out 6 days a week. I would suggest reducing workout days to 3-4 and concentrating the majority of your workout on weights. I mean a full body workout but with weights(the heaviest you can manage 8-12 reps with) incorporated. Then add in 10-15 mins of HIIT cadio at the end of each.

This way you have more free time but are getting more from your workouts.

An example could be -

Workout Mon, Wed, Fri (then sat or sun if you want to) for 1 hour

Ill post what i do just for an example. Then you can pick your own exerices and make your workouts suit you. You only need to be doing 1 or 2 exerices per muscle group.

workout 1 -

5 min row

3 sets of 12 - deadlifts (32kg weighted ball), standing row, stability ball crunches.

3 sets of 12 - weighted lunges (12 each leg), press ups, mb reverse curls

3 sets of 12 - single arm shoulder press, standing cable row, plank (45 sec hold)

10 mins HIIT on stationary bike

workout 2 -

5min rower warm up

squats / single arm row 3 x 12 each

reverse lunges / single arm cable presses / deadbugs 3 x 12

single arm shoulder press /chest supported row / side plank 3 x 12 for wts then 30secs for hold

10 min HIIT on treadmill
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Post by AnnaCruzDC »

Thanks, Clare! I'll try workout #1, first. I just got back from spinning class and doing abs, back, and leg lifts. arms, shoulders, back, thighs and butt are a bit sore from powerflex class yesterday so maybe I'll take tomorrow off or do something light.

I'll keep you posted on progress. I'd really like to tone up some for valentine's day!! :D

Cheers,
Anna
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Post by Boss Man »

Just so you know I answered the stuff about diet elsewhere. Though for future referance, please don't post the same thing more than once in different places, as someone could have posted here about your diet, and caused confusion and conflict with what I said elsewhere.

Not being shirty, just letting you know :).
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Yea, I didn't realize there were different forums until it was too late. And I also got too excited about posting!!!
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Workout week 01/26 - 02/01

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New Workout Week 01/26 - 02/01

I'm adding Clare's workouts and doing more strengthening classes (powerflex and bootcamp).

Monday
Break

Tuesday Workout
-Abs, leg lifts, back
-60 min spinning class that kicked butt!!!

Wednesday's plan:
Clare's workout #1

Thursday
Bootcamp class

Friday
Break or Clare's workout #2

Saturday
Powerflex or Spinning (depends on how I feel)

Sunday
Spinning or Clare's workout #2
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Post by swanso5 »

you need a day off or 2...try this

day 1 - wts
2 - cardio
3 - wts
4 - off
5 - wts
6 - cardio
7 - off

you dont have anything to lose anyway from the looks of your photo
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Post by Boopster »

Ditto what Swanso said.

And I agree with Clare...You are doing WAY TOO MUCH CARDIO and not enough free weights. You will never gain the muscle you want by burning it off with that amount of cardio and from personal experience, you are doing more harm than good. I will admit that when I began getting serious about taking care of body I did exactly what you are doing. And only excuse is lack of knowledge and experience. Use the resources that are available to you. After research of own, the help from the wonderful people on this site and hiring a personal trainer, I have learned a lot. Your body needs rest just as much as it needs a good, quality workout with proper form and equally clean, well balanced nutritional diet.

Remember when you lift weights, proper form is crucial, if you find yourself rushing to get through the set because the weight is too much, you risk injury and once again are wasting your time. Stop that set immediately, drop your weight and work on form. Once you have it mastered, then increase the weight. Pay attention to each exercise you perform and concentrate and what muscle groups you are training. It takes a little practice, but once you get into this habit it will come natural to you as you progress.

As far as your cardio goes, I have no issues with endurance exercise, as I once trained for a triathlon with SarahPT from this site and upping endurance is what I needed to do to compete. But from what I understand, you want to gain muscle mass. Once again, and only speaking from experience, think about doing HIIT 2-3 times a week for approximately 15-20 minutes rather than than endurance types (60 minutes of cardio). You'll burn more fat (which is what you claim you want to achieve) and you may yield better results. When you research HIIT, as you read it it seems easy, once you perform it properly, it will kick your and you will feel like you kickboxed or cycled for an hour.

I'll be the first to admit, I feel better when I get a good sweat in for a long period of time after running or cycling for an hour, and there are some weeks I do just that. Usually it's to relieve stress, and it works! But I don't do it every week.

Good luck with your endeavors and keep us posted :D
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Post by AnnaCruzDC »

Ok, I'll take a break or two. During spinning class we do a lot of intervals training; we go steady for the first 5 minutes, standing climb for 5min, jumps for 5, or 30 seconds extremely fast cycling then 60 seconds recovery, repeat...so would this be categorized under HIIT? The last 15-30 mins of spinning is the endurance round where we try to cycle as fast as we can to the finish line.
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Post by Boopster »

Like I said, I have no problem with the spinning. If the spinning you are doing in intervals last about 30 minutes... fine. If more, you run the risk of burning more muscle. It will just take longer for you to gain the muscle mass you want. I only make this statement because I had difficulty gaining muscle by overdoing cardio. I ate protein like a monster and did NO CARDIO for months in order to gain the mass I wanted.
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Today's workout:

3 sets 15 reps of
biceps hammer curls, bicep reverse preacher curl
tricep extension
lateral dumbell raise
crunches
leg lifts
squats with 5lb weight
lunges

25 push-ups

30 min eliptical

The squats really made me sweat, everything else was OK. I'm sure I'll feel sore tomorrow.

Tomorrow's Plan:

Shadow boxing
Spinning

I am going to start training for 10k soon. Will post details soon. I'm planning to run a marathon in October :shock: A little scared, I hope I don't injure myself. When I ran a half marathon last summer, ankle was in pain for a couple of months. Anywho, time to go out!!!
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