Summer Shape Up 2010- Week 4

Hey everyone! Happy Monday!

Here is the last workout for this year’s Summer Shape Up. It’s a hodge podge of the previous workouts… and it’s a doozy 🙂 You should be totally ready to bust it out if you’ve been doing the program so far.

Have fun!

  Summer Shape Up 2010

The SSU 2010 Workouts are set up differently from previous Shape Ups. These workouts include a mix of strength, flexibility and speed training and include a balance of gym, at-home, outdoor and weight workouts per your requests 😀 There are also options to choose from each day, so you can mix and match to your liking.

For the Strength workouts: 3 sets of 12-15 reps for each exercise, unless otherwise specified. These can be done circuit-style (one set of each exercise and then repeat the entire circuit 3 times) or 3 consecutive sets with 15-30 seconds of rest before moving to the next exercise.

As always please check with a doctor before making any mayjah fitness or nutrition changes. Be smart and honor any injuries or special fitness needs.

Work It Out

Day 1: Strength and Speed (at home or gym)

-5 minutes of low/moderate intensity cardio to warm up

– Bent-over fly

–Side lying lateral raise

–Ultimate toe touch

–Incline bicep curl (seated at home)

–Cable row (bent-over row at home)

–Reverse crunch on a bench (do with a medicine ball in between your knees at home)

–Stability ball back extension

– Run moderately for 5 minutes to warm up

-Sprint for 45 seconds

–Walking lunges for 30 seconds

-Jog 2 minutes

–Bench push-ups for 30 seconds (use bleachers or a tree)

-Jog 1 minute

-Sprint 45 seconds

-Bench tricep dips for 30 seconds (use bleacher or do on the ground with legs bent or straight out in front)

-Jog 2 minutes

–High knee skips for 45 seconds

–Squats for 45 seconds

– Butt kicks for 45 seconds

-Jog or walk 2 minutes (easy)

-Sprint 1 minute

-Tricep dips 30 seconds

-Jog 2 minutes

-Push ups 30 seconds

-Jog (easy!) 5 minutes

-Stretch and drink lots of water!!

 

Day 2: Strength and Hills

-5 minutes easy/moderate cardio of choice to warm up

–Lunge and Lift

–Plie Squat (do 10-15 full plie squats and then hold it down and do 10-15 pulses for each set)

–Pilates side leg lift (lift top leg up and down 10 times—if you’re feeling feisty, add 10 circles to the front and 10 circles to the back)

–Weighted ball crunch

–Stability ball hamstring curl (if you’ve done these before and they’re getting easier, try it with one leg at a time)

–Frog Crunch

–Bosu calf raise (can be done on a stair instead with heels hanging off the edge)- for more of a challenge: one leg at a time, or hold some dumbbells

–Leg extension (at home version– add ankle weights for more of a challenge)

–Prone glute lift

-20-30 minutes moderate cardio of choice

-Stretch

 

Day 3: Stretch

Option 1: Power Yoga #4 Podcast (20 minute- free from YogaDownload.com) or Yoga DVD + 20 minutes light cardio

Option 2: Power Yoga or Bikram Class

 

Day 4: Strength and Speed

-5 minutes of low/moderate intensity cardio to warm up

–Front to side lunge

– Wall sits (hold 30 to 45 sec)

–Step-ups

–Sumo dead lifts

–Calf raise on a step (to make it harder, hook one foot around the back of the opposite ankle and do one leg at a time)

–Stability ball Ys and Ts (hold light dumbbells)

–Cable hip abduction (use a resistance band if you’re at home)

–Renegade row

-20-30 minutes of High Intensity Interval Training (Run or on the bike- 1:30 recovery and 45 seconds of sprinting- 5 min warm up 15-20 min HIIT and 5 min cardio)

 

Day 5: Strength and Steady

-5 minutes easy/moderate cardio of choice to warm up

–Diamond push-ups (to make these even more challenging, try them with your hands positioned on a BOSU ball)

–Dumbbell double crunch

–Supine tricep extension

–Stability ball chest fly

–Shoulder burners-

1. Get into the plié position, arms straight out to the side shoulder height, and pulse your arms up and down for 30 seconds.
2. Stop pulsing, and immediately swing your arms to the front and back to the side. Forward and back for 30 seconds
3. Immediately take your arms and go directly up over your head so your fingertips touch and bring them back down to shoulder height for 30 seconds
4. Immediately take your arms out and do small reverse circles (small circles) – Keep your arms straight out for 30 seconds

–21s (with barbell or dumbbells)

–Arnold press

-20-30 minutes moderate cardio of choice- steady state, level 5-6

-Stretch

 

Day 6: Stretch

Option 1: Detox Yoga #2 (20 minute- free from YogaDownload.com) or Yoga DVD + 20 minutes light cardio

Option 2: Power Yoga or Bikram Class

Option 3: Stretching on your own (20 minutes) + 20 minutes light cardio

 

Day 7: Rest

Take it easy and chill 😀

Happy Training!

xoxo,

Gina

Something to talk about:

This is a great chance to spread the word about how AWESOME you’ve been doing this summer! Are you rocking out the Summer Shape Up? Proud of another recent fitness accomplishment?? Let me know what you’ve been up to so we can all cheer for each other.

I’ll go first: I’m proud that I kicked 10 weeks of Insanity into the dust! I feel so much stronger, my endurance is through the roof and I loved it like crazy. I’ll talk more about it later today and will post the full re-cap after I get my body fat checked again, so I can tell ya’ll if there was a number change (but of course, won’t be posting the actual numbers)