As I mentioned yesterday Patrick showed me a workout routine and you'll never believe this but I only workout 16 minutes every other day. I can do more if I want and sometimes I do. Well, here's what I do:
3 minute warm up, about walk/jogging pace
20 seconds hard, very hard almost as fast as I can go
20 seconds easy, I use this as my rest but I keep moving
20 seconds hard
20 seconds easy
20 seconds hard
20 seconds easy
20 seconds hard
2 minutes easy
I do this 3 times. By the end I'm sweating like I just ran 3 miles in the middle of summer. I have been using our elliptical trainer so far and I'm thinking of using a jump rope on those days I need something more fun than the elliptical. You can do anything you want to walking, running, step, stairs, jumping jacks, really anything that gets your heart really going.
For additional strength training I lift light weights, do sit-ups and push-ups. I just do this so I get up at the same time everyday and not have to change the alarm everyday. Hey, I'm just too lazy to change the alarm.
Thank you for reading my blog and be sure to leave a comment. Good luck with all your weight loss goals.
1 comment:
Amber, nice work on keeping up with the program and tracking it on the blog. This will be a great inspiration for many people who have the same goals.
Just an FYI. You can shorten up the work out by 4 minutes, because you only need to go hard for three sets in between the rest periods. Let me give you an example:
Warmup (3 min)
hard 20 sec
rest 20 sec
hard 20 sec
rest 20 sec
hard 20 sec...
rest two minutes
(repeat two more times.
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