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Workout Wednesday – 30-Minute Tabata

March 9, 2016 by johnson_mel@hotmail.com

Tabata

Have you tried tabata before? Or done a tabata-style workout before? I love it. I need to do it more often!

Tabata is a type of HIIT training method with short bursts of high-intensity moves mixed with periods of rest. True tabata is done 20 seconds of work (as hard as you can go) followed by 10 seconds of rest and you complete 8 rounds, so four minutes total. It seems quite easy because you only have do to 20 seconds of work. The difficult part however is that the rest period is only 10 seconds, which in the last few rounds feels like two seconds! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Strength Training Tagged With: strength training

Workout Wednesday: Upper Body + Power

October 14, 2015 by johnson_mel@hotmail.com

Upper Body + Power

First of all, I’d like to point out that I successfully read Monday night for over an hour. Not to brag but I was all alone in the house (not counting Doug) and it was dark out the entire time. I didn’t even freak myself out! This time I tried reading in the living room with the lights on so I could see all around me. I figured if I could see most of the upstairs of our house (both entrances at least) then I wouldn’t be as scared. I think it worked! I didn’t let my silly mind take over and come up with hypothetical, and impractical I might add, events that would lead to me being kidnapped or murdered. I’d count that up as a big success! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Strength Training Tagged With: exercise, strength training, wednesday workout

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