Monday, April 9, 2012

30 minute all-in-one treadmill workout

I am obsessed with any dessert, Marc Jacobs, oxford shirts, all-in-one products; whether it be makeup, cooking utensils, or workouts.
I created this treadmill workout today spontaneously while I was warming up with 10 minutes of pilates, and it may just be my fave one yet!
It's super tough and I'm not going to lie- I even had to jump off and rest for a few seconds in between more than once.
This workout encompasses all the elements of HIIT, working at an incline, and steady-state cardio.
Let's get down to business before I bore you with all my bragging:

4x:
2 min @ 7.5 (or at a level 8-9 on the exertion scale)
30 sec @ 4.0 brisk walk

4x:
1 min @ 8.5 (or at 9.5-10 on the exertion scale; you shouldn't be able to keep up the pace for more than a minute)
1 min @ 6.0 light run
30 sec @ 4.0 brisk walk

Incline work:
1 min @ 4.0, incline @ 4.0
1 min @ 5.5, incline @ 5.0
1 min @ 6.0, incline @ 6.0
1 min @ 4.0, incline @ 7.0
1 min @ 5.5, incline @ 8.0
1 min @ 6.0, incline @ 9.0

Steady state:
4 min @ 6.0 light run 

Cool down and stretch.

Mom bought like 60 or so of these bars for like $30; I'm beyond grateful. Guess which little girl will be offering to help clear the table tonight? You don't want to know what I'd do for brownies.



And to quote a Shakespeare-allusion: "Sweet dreams are made of this..."




Off to munch on my fave health food!





Sunday, April 8, 2012

Motivation

Sometimes I swear I get so unmotivated about things... I think my problem is that I'm an all-or-nothing person, so either I'm up and buzzing and annoying the hell out of anyone nearby or I'm just totally veggin' out and procrastinating. Lately I've been off with posting because I've totally been feeling not up to it.
I did work out this week, but even that has been a bit seedy and feeling not super tough... I like to be very challenged by every workout, so when I complete it I feel like I actually deserve the amount of chocolate I eat after dinner lolz.
I don't like to do set workout schedules every week because there's always something unexpected popping up in my day, so I generally plan my workout beforehand in the day (while I'm at school waiting for papers to be passed up etc). I try to stick to a somewhat pattern of long cardio day, resistance/interval cardio + pilates, cardio, lazy day where I'm supposed to do speedwork but I skip and do a tempo run, and so on.
Err.... not much else I feel like writing about right now.
Here's a pretty picture I took sometime that I hope I haven't posted already because no post is interesting without a picture:






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