Lazy Girl Fitness

With the launch of Fun Food and Fitness, I decided that the first three posts should follow that order.  In future posts will not always occur in that order, but I thought it would be fun is the first three did.  So in following with that theme, today’s post is the workout I completed this morning.  The past few days I have been doing morning workouts, but once school starts back I will move my workouts to the afternoons, because I am just not a morning person.  

 

Today’s work out started with intervals on the treadmill.  First of all I want to point out that I am lazy girl.  I would much rather sit in my apartment watching shows on Netflix than go to the gym; however, I love food and I love clothes, so I work out for the sole purpose of being able to eat yummy treats while still managing to look somewhat decent in my clothes.  So in order to make myself workout I take my tablet to the gym, which has wi-fi, and I watch shows on Netflix while doing my cardio.  

 My workout set-up.

My gym recently upgraded to some very nice programmable treadmills, so doing intervals is much easier now than it was before.  I’m not really fond of the pre-programmed intervals so I created my own 40 minute interval, which was perfect since I’m currently watching 90210 on Netflix and each episode is 43 minutes, so add in a cool down and the treadmill interval ends at the exact same time as the show.  I managed to cover a total of 3.5 miles and burnt 376 calories with this workout.  If you complete this workout it is very possible that your distance will be different than mine, because I’m not going to lie towards the end I would slow down the running interval here and there (it’s been awhile since I have ran and like I said I’m a lazy girl).  Also, the 376 calories is an estimate based on my age and weight, so more than likely you will have different results for that as well. 

 

After cardio, I go back to my apartment to do ab exercises and dumbbell weight training, because I’m a lazy girl and want to watch Netflix on a bigger screen while I do these exercises.  Also, my gym doesn’t have dumbbells (it’s just a small gym in the leasing office of my complex), and I have a variety of sizes that work great for me.  My go to ab workout is P90X Ab Ripper X.  I will not be posting those exercises, because I don’t want Beach Body to sue me for violating copyright laws, but I will tell you that you can easily find the exercises with Google, a video on YouTube, or on Pinterest under the 300 Ab Challenge. 

 

Above is the dumbbell circuit that I completed today.  I used a 10lb dumbbell in each hand for the squats, lunges, and curls.  For the bridges, I placed both 10lb dumbbells on my abdomen, and I didn’t use any added weight for the pushups or triceps dips.  I have also posted a modified version of this circuit for more experienced people (or in my case less tired people), that consists of the same exercises.  The only differences in the beginner and experienced circuits is that the experienced circuit does all the repetitions for a particular exercise at once, instead of doing say 15 of one exercise, 10 of another, and then 15 of the first exercise.  If this sounds confusing just check out the photo below and compare it to the previous photo.

To recap I did 40 minutes on the treadmill, and about 15 minutes each of ab exercises and dumbbell training.  I’m just getting back into the groove of working out, since I spent most of Christmas break traveling, so today’s workout was pretty light and quick, but I definitely worked up a sweat.  I want to point out that I am not a licensed physical trainer, so complete these workouts at your own risk, and don’t sue me if you manage to injure yourself. What did you do to work up a sweat today?  Do you enjoy doing circuit style workouts?