Saturday, February 15, 2014

Saturday Stretch/Flexibility -- Deep Hip and Leg Stretch Flow -- Part 2

Here is video number 2 from the Deep Hip and Leg Stretch Flow series from sadienardini.


Again, listen to your body.  Only take the stretches as deep as your body wants to go.



Thursday, February 13, 2014

Thursday's Total Body/Cardio -- Fat Burning Cardio

Today's workout comes from FitnessBlender.  It is a fat burning cardiovascular workout that will hit all the major muscle groups while burning a ton of calories.  It is about 35 minutes long.  It is a body weight workout.  No equipment is needed.


A warm up and cool down are both provided.

Here's the structure of the workout from their website:

Workout Structure: 40 seconds each exercise with 15 sec jog/boxer shuffle in-between each exercise. Do alternating sets of each group of two exercises for a total of two sets per exercise.
  • Slow Burpee
  • Jumping Jack
  • Lateral Step And Reach
  • Ventral Jacks
  • High Knee Pause
  • Fly Jacks
  • Bicycle Crunch
  • Lunge Jack (Alternating lunge, when in lunge hands at front ankle, stand with hands over head)
  • Plank Slaps
  • Stutter Jack (regular JJ motion but pause three times bottom, top and half way on the way up and down)
  • Lateral Hops
  • High Knee Jack (hands clap under thigh every time knee goes up, alternating)
  • Side Leg Raise w/ Oblique Crunch
  • Plank with Rear Leg Raise
  • Toe Touch Kick (alternating)
  • Jumping Jack


Modify wherever you might need to.