Wednesday, January 13, 2010

My Exercise for the Day

I learned some new moves last night from a friend, Tammy at church. I added them to my at home work out routine today and so I thought I would share what I learned.
I started on the floor and did 2 sets of 12 on each leg. I layed on one side with legs stacked on top of one another, elbow bent holding my head, lifted the top leg up and down slowly. Then I got up on my knees and put elbows and forearms on the floor. I extended one leg out behind me and lifted up and down slowly. Then I bent the same leg and lifted it up and down slowly. So my foot was facing towards the cieling. (I am sure these have names but I don't know them) (I did both legs of all exercises.) Then I did a foward lunge. Stand straight feet next to eachother, move one leg foward and bend back leg. I lunged down for 2 sets of 12 again. My legs were feeling fatigued. Lastly I did the fire hydrant move and thats kinda hard to explain so I hope it makes sense. I get on hands and knees, bend one leg so it is at 90 degree angle from the floor and lift up and down, kinda like a dog using the restroom against a hydrant. (visual is better here right?)
My abs aren't very strong at all yet so I layed on my back and placed my hands under my bum. I lefted my shoulders off the floor and both legs to do tiny scissor kicks or kicks like you would if you were swimming. I did 3 sets of 30 of these. And that made my abs very tired.
I came upstairs and did 30 minutes of intervals on the eliptical. No matter what type of cardio I do, I always do intervals. I have read that it burns fat fastest. So I start out on level 1 to warm up and proceed to level 4 through different amounts of time. I go foward and backward and do small increments (like 30-45 seconds) of sprinting every few minutes.
Then my munchkin woke up and I had to feed him so I didn't get time to stretch. Julie told us last night that it's important to stretch when your muscles are warm so I waited until I took a shower and did my stretches in there and it felt good to lengthen my muscles!

What are you doing to work out? Anything new and different helps us all shuffle up our routine so let us hear what you are up to!

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