train like an olympian | do each exercise intensely for 30 seconds. move onto each move with little or no recovery time in between. once you’ve completed all the moves (4 minutes total) take a 60-90 second break and repeat set 2 to 3 more times.
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We all want a nice butt to make our skinny jeans look good. Try out this butt workout to tighten, tone and lift your butt!
20 Squats
20 Plie Squats
20 Donkey Kicks per side
20 Fire Hydrants per side
20 Circling Donkey Kick per side
30 Alternating Split Jumps
30 Alternating Sliders
30 Hips Lifts
20 Lunges Kicks per side
Do this 3x through for an awesome butt workout! I know your buns will be burning by the end of this
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7/15/12
Hey Guys! I just finished testing out Jillian Michaels’ Card WorkOut
(Which you can find here on my ExerciseDiary page)
The way it works is:
hearts=lunges Clubs=Reverse Crunch Diamonds=PushUps Spades=Crunches
Card Numbers = Repititions and all Face Cards=10
Aces= 1 minute break
Essentially you go through the entire deck to get a pretty good core work out with some of the larger muscle groups mixed in. Now, I just finished — it took me about 29 minutes to complete and I was definitely sweating in the end.
I did, however, modify it just a little bit. Instead of making face cards equal to 10, I left them at 11, 12, 13 and did modifications of the basic movements. So whenever I got a face card I turned my lunges into squats (or lunge-knee ups), I turned my reverse crunches into flutter kicks, I turned my push ups (which I did mostly modify to pushups from the knees) into 1 minute planks, and I turned my crunches into crunches with punches, side crunches, and jack knives.
I don’t think I’d call this a real intense work out but it’s something you can do if you have a limited amount of space and don’t want to make a lot of noise. About halfway through the deck I started thinkingI really don’t want to do this. My muscles hurt. Ugh I suck at lungesso it is a pretty nice feeling when you flip over that last card. It’s like seeing an absolute sign of “You didn’t give up.”
Overall: C/C+
Intensity: C
Strength Training: B
Core Training: B
Cardio: F
Fun: C
Satisfaction: B