Tag Archives: body weight exercises

Bodyweight Moves Are Awesome!!! (6/29-7/5)

You know I love all of my fun fitness “toys” but I also love doing bodyweight moves!!  There are so many options and moves that work every single muscle group!!!  

Sunday 6/29  44 alternating star jumps (right – left = 1 rep).

This move was super fun!!!  I will definitely add these in to other workouts!!

Monday 6/30  44 Y squats (squat while keeping arms in a “Y”).

ready
ready
down
down
side view
side view

Keeping my arms up made this squat a challenge!!!

I’m still loving my current weight lifting program – Chalean Extreme – Push Circuit 3.

And, I ran – shorter than some of my runs last week!!
6 miles in 41:50 + 2 easy miles.

Tuesday 7/1  44 push-ups with cross body mountain climbers.

ready
ready
down
down
right knee in and over
right knee in and over
left knee in & over
left knee in & over

This was a fun way to jazz up push-ups!!!

This was another running day!!
12 miles – 92:02 + 2.25 easy miles.

Wednesday 7/2  44 alternating cross-over lunges (right-left = 1 rep).

step left over right
step left over right
down
down
step right over left
step right over left
and lunge
and lunge

I really enjoyed this move – it was great for  toning and also good cardio!!!

This was a lifting day – Chalean Extreme – Push Circuit 1 and the Ab Burner workout – fun!!!

Thursday 7/3  44 “waiter” single leg dead lifts.  (Keep one arm behind your back while doing dead lifts on opposite leg.)

ready for right leg
ready for right leg
down
down
left leg
left leg
down
down

This was a fairly light day of workouts because I chose not to get up super early!!!

Tae-Bo Ab Boot Camp – since I haven’t done this in awhile I feel sure that I will be sore in the next day or two – score!!!

Friday 7/4  44 plank forward walks.  Starting in plank walk right hand front, left hand front, right hand back, left hand back then switch lead hands for 1 rep.

This was hard – a lot of time spent in plank!!

Then, the boys and I did the 6 mile race around the lake!!!

getting ready to start
getting ready to start

For some reason, I struggled through the entire 6 miles!!!
My time was 44:50 which should not have felt as hard as it did – 3rd female finisher.  
Hunter finished in 52:40 – he did awesome and loved the race!!!
Jordan’s time was 53:57 – he had a rough time near the end but still did a super job!!!

Saturday 7/5  44 prisoner lateral lunges (alternating).

ready
ready
lunge right
lunge right
lunge left
lunge left

A right and a left counted as 1 rep.  This was another fun move – I enjoyed the body weight moves a lot this week!

This was sort of a lighter week of workouts but I think I needed it based on how  I felt during the race yesterday and most of the rest of the day after running!!!

Happy Saturday!!

Kim