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A Full Body Workout

I love my garage gym.  Mostly because I can dance like a fool without anyone watching but the spiders.  I’m feeling better today than last week.  Hal-le-lu-jah. Hallelujah.  Hallelujah.  The monster from Present Monster Syndrome has retreated to the closet.  Hopefully she stays there.

As I’ve said before, I like to do the same workouts for 3 or 4 weeks in a row before switching them up.  I like this for 2 reasons.  1. It’s easy to record my progress from week to week.  2. I thrive in routine.  After the 3rd or 4th week I switch my workouts up again.  This has worked really well for me.   This has been my Monday’s workout for the past month.

Full Body Workout

I warmed up by doing the hula hoop for 5 minutes.  Yes the hula hoop.  Now that’s hardcore. :)

A. Split Jerk* – 6 reps  (Substitute the military press if you are unsure of the split jerk.)  
B. Jump Squats – 15 (I’ve worked up to 20 over 4 weeks and I don’t swing my arms like the dude in the video.  I’m afraid I’d fall over backwards.)
C. Lat Pull Downs – 6 reps

Repeat A-C 5 times for a total of 5 sets for each exercise.  Rest 1-2 minutes after C and rest only as needed between exercises.

A. Concentration Curls –  6 reps
B. Tricep Kickback – 6 reps
C. Side Lateral Raises – 6 reps

Repeat A-C 5 times for a total of 5 sets for each exercise.  Rest 1-2 minutes after C and rest only as needed between exercises.

A. Plank till failure

A. Finished off my workout with a 10 minute walk/sprint on the treadmill.

A. Stretch

This takes me about 45 minutes depending on how much dancing I do in between sets.

*I’ve been researching a ton on Olympic lifts and have incorporated a few into my workouts.  They are pretty fun.  They make me feel tougher than I really am!  I started with a broomstick to be safe.  Once I felt comfortable I started using an unloaded barbell.  I’ve just started to add a little weight.  I hoping a certain friend can come over soon to help me improve my form.  :)

Okay friends let’s all have a great week.

xoxo
j

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6 Responses to “A Full Body Workout”

  1. On May 4, 2009 at 1:13 pm Marthab responded with... #

    Well, if I happen to be that friend, let’s do it!

    M

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  2. On May 4, 2009 at 9:42 pm jennincat responded with... #

    Yep that certain friend would be you! Looking forward to it.

    Reply
  3. On May 6, 2009 at 6:26 am Eb responded with... #

    Hula-hoop…hardcore…I heard only 1% of the population over 30 can even do it for 10 sec.

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  4. On May 6, 2009 at 12:28 pm jennincat responded with... #

    Dad – That’s so funny!!! I love your random little pieces of information!
    xoxo
    j

    Reply
  5. On May 11, 2009 at 10:21 am Kim aka run_lift_eat responded with... #

    Hey! Did you change it for comments? Anyhoo I hadn’t seen that split jerk, pretty cool. I like to do the squat jumps onto a step with like 4 risers, so you straddle it, squat, jump up, immediately squat, jump down to straddling the box, immediately . . . you get the point. Oh plyos. . . How I love/hate thee.

    I change my workout every 6 weeks for the same reasons. I feel like anything less is too little for me to make significant gains. Anything more I get bored.

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    • On May 14, 2009 at 11:09 am jennincat responded with... #

      HEY KIM!!!!! So glad to see you here! :) We switched my blog over to the updated version of WordPress so maybe that affected commenting! I have a love/hate relationship with ply too! I’ll have to figure out something to jump one so I can try those squat jumps. Thanks for commenting!

      xoxo
      j

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  • Posted on May 4, 2009
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