Yesterday was pretty wild weather-wise in Colorado. We had a huge snow storm! I still have to work even if there is a blizzard (the radio biz stops for no one!). However, basically every single school was closed in Northeast Colorado. In fact, most of them are closed today too! Wild.
The wind howled all. night. long. and the roads were pretty bad in the morning yesterday so I didn’t make it to the gym. I thought about going to my parents and I also thought about doing a quick at-home workout. I didn’t sleep very well Monday night so at one point I woke up in the middle of the night and decided I’d just go over my lunch hour. Brilliant. I was already in town so why not.
I actually really liked going at noon. Jodi has let me fill in a couple times during her Friday 11:00am & 12:00pm classes when someone can’t make it. I enjoy going in the middle of the day occasionally. It is quite different when you’ve eaten a couple meals before exercising! It definitely takes some planning (aka taking clothes, deodorant, makeup, etc) but I should try it more often.
If we are out late one evening and I want to sleep in I need to do that and then go workout over lunch. Do you ever do that?
I did not do this workout yesterday (I actually did bicep & tricep supersets), but I did do this treadmill workout last week. It is pretty difficult. My favorite part is that, including warm-up and cool down, it still only takes 20 minutes! It would be a great lunch-hour workout, minus that it makes you pretty sweaty.
This treadmill incline interval workout includes one minute of walking, one minute of jogging, and one minute of actual running (not quite a sprint). You’ll repeat those three minutes three more times (total of 12 minutes), increasing the incline each time. It definitely gets your heart rate going!
If you cannot run at an 8.0 at an incline then decrease the speed. Keep the incline the same if you can, but change the speed to fit your fitness the level. The idea is to have three different speeds: slow, medium, and fast. Find what speed works for you and keep it that way for all three rounds.
Exercising on an incline burns more calories than a flat surface and you get an added bonus of working the booty a little more on an incline! Boom, gotta love booty work!
Another couple cardio workouts to try include Booty Burning Treadill Workout and 30-Minute Elliptical HIIT.
Have you tried intervals on an incline?
