21 Day Ab Workout

There is a personal trainer from Texas; Bertie Ranger, or The Bertinator. She is great. Look up her blog, find her on Facebook, or both. A friend of mine likes her on Facebook and so I discovered her through my friend. Last month she did a Bad Lass 21 Day #fababs Challenge. What it included was doing a specific ab workout to a specific song each day. So, really, you were doing 5 minutes or less each day for an ab workout. There were other rules included in the challenge. Like, drinking a gallon of water a day, no processed food, no wine, doing cardio 3-5 times a week, eating 3 cups of green vegetables a day, and taking a before and after picture for accountability (and to see changes). She finished the 21 day ab challenge and now has moved on to a Bad Lass 21 Day #bootyblast Challenge.  To see the workout for each day, just like her on Facebook. It's fun, quick, and a good workout.

Track Workout

Last Saturday my normal 6:30 am basketball was cancelled, so I headed to the track to do a track work-out. I actually had quite a bit of time before I was going to head over to a sale at a nearby consignment shop, so I decided to do three track workouts together. What a great workout I got in!! It felt good, and I was sore for a couple of days afterward. Here are the workouts I did. I got them from a personal trainer I follow on Facebook, The Bertinator. She has her own website and blog, and I like to incorporate some of her workouts in with my own.

Workout 1
Warm-up 1 lap
1 mile for time
5 - 100 meter sprints
1 lap jog curves, side shuffle burpee on straightaways (do a burpee, then a side shuffle, burpee, side shuffle, ...)
Cool down 1 lap

Workout 2
Warm-up 1 lap
1 lap sprint straights; jog curves
1 lap lunge straights; jog curves
1 lap power skipping straights; jog curve
1 lap travel burpee straights (same as above); jog curve
1 cool down lap

Workout 3
Run 1 minute
10 mountain climbers
Run 1 minute
10 squat kicks
Run 1 minute
10 Tricep Push-Ups
Run 1 minute
10 burpees with a push up
Run 1 minute
10 walking lunges
Run 1 minute
10 opposite elbow/opposite knee plank
Run 1 minute
10 jumping jacks
Run 1 minute

This took me about an hour and 15 minutes to do. I wore my Garmin and ended up doing 5 and a half miles around the track, but of course my speed decreased when I started doing lunges and burpees. One thing was the track tore up my hands doing the traveling burpee, so by the second lap of that I put my hands in the grass on the field and my feet on the track. That felt a lot better, and I should have started with that. Overall, a great workout though.

10 mile workout

Here are activities that when together burn the calories of running 10 miles, without actually running 10 miles. Although, just running 10 miles would probably be easier. Ha ha.

1 mile jog
100 push-ups
250 squats
500 crunches
100 burpees
100 tricep dips
250 dead lifts
500 russians
1,000 stairs
1 mile jog

It's hard to believe I'd do 100 burpees over running a mile (although 100 tricep dips instead of a mile isn't a bad trade off), but this is a good variation for burning calories, while getting a strength workout in.