Winter Shape Up 2015: Week 2
Hi friends! Welcome to Week 2 of the Winter Shape Up! Anne and I are loving all of your amazing check-ins and posts. Keep up the great work! Remember, you already did the hardest part, which is getting started. Keep the momentum going!
Just like this cute little powerful penguin 🙂
You can jump into the Shape Up at any time, and please feel free to shuffle around the workouts to work with your schedule/life. Let me know if you need help or have any questions. As always, check with a doc before making any fitness changes, and honor your body. These workouts are designed for women who have a solid steady state cardio base (at least 30 minutes most days of the week), and are comfortable lifting weights. If you’re just beginning your fitness journey, or getting back in the game, join in the for strength training (use light weights to begin and progress from there), and instead of the Tabata and HIIT intervals, do steady state cardio. You can complete this on the treadmill (walking or jogging), stairclimber, rowing machine, or bike.
Be sure to send in your sweaty pics on Twitter and Instagram, or check out our WSU Facebook group.
Here’s what Week 2 looks like:
Links to your workouts:
Workout #3 (30-minute barre video)
Workout #2 (21-minute HIIT with video)
For this year’s Shape Up, I designed the plan so that we would have TONS of variety. You have 6 Winter Shape Up-specific workouts (HIIT, Strength, Tabata, Barre), with different upper body, lower body, ab work, and cardio workouts sprinkled in. Variety is the spice of workout life, right? 🙂 I’m so stoked that you’re enjoying the workouts so far!
A very special thanks to this year’s Winter Shape Up sponsors:
Wild Blueberries / Cabot / Sabra / Sizzlefish / About Time / Fitfluential
Congratulations to the Week 1 giveaway winner, who will receive a Jump Start pack from our friends at About Time. (Whey protein powder and various workout fuel in delicious flavors, sweetened with Stevia.)
Kelsey!
(The lucky winner has been emailed!)
Our Week 2 sponsor is Wild Blueberries, which I love to purchase for smoothies, breakfast cookie dough cereal, and blueberry breakfast bakes. They have amazing flavor, and are the perfect size. I usually find them at Sprouts or Whole Foods.
You may not know this, but not all blueberries are created equal. Wild Blueberries have a more intense flavor, double the antioxidants and fiber, and a deeper blue pigment, which makes them serious nutritional superstars when compared to the regular ones you find in the produce section. The reason they have more fiber is due to the higher skin-to-pulp ratio than their larger cultivated counterparts. As for the antioxidants, they have a greater concentration of the flavonoid anthocyanin, a phytochemical found in blue-pigmented fruit. Because they grow in such harsh conditions, the antioxidants protect them from hash sunlight and rigorous conditions. We get to reap the cell-protecting benefits. 🙂
Wild Blueberries are also smaller than regular blueberries, which makes them the ideal size for baking and cooking. Because Wild Blueberries haven’t been modified by man, they’re not meant to travel great distances fresh, so you’ll find them in the freezer section of your grocery store. Just be sure to look for “Wild Blueberries” on the label. Check out this link to find Wild Blueberries near you!
Our friends at Wild Blueberries generously offered a $25 Whole Foods gift card + a Wild Blueberries infused water bottle. (One reader will be chosen from my site, and one from Anne’s.)
To enter, simply leave a comment below each time you complete a workout this week. You already have a freebie entry from yesterday (rest day!), and an additional one if you’ve already worked out today.
Let’s hit week 2 with a bang!
xoxo
Gina
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Workout #3 really had me shaking, loved it!
I’m going to be doing Workout #2 today so I’m excited! Can’t believe the first week flew by already!
Workout number three was a challenge
For me!’ A good challenge!
Workout #3 is in the books! Loved it!
Perfect day for workout #3 since we are snowed in again and I can do this at home! +10 min run on my treadmill in the basement!
I just finished running and am on the elliptical now reading your blog!
ready to tackle week 2!
Oh man, workout 3 was killer! So glad I did it though – I’ll be feeling the burn all day! Also did a 10-minute run on the treadmill. Completed just over a mile. Happy Monday!
rested on sunday
workout 3 this am and will get in 30 min run this afternoon
To do:
-Workout #3- check!
Workout 3 complete, going to add in some steady state in my lunch break later!
We got over a foot of snow yesterday (through this morning) so I walked to the Y to do some steady state and was turned away 10 minutes later when they closed early. I got in a VERY quick mile, walked home and completed your 28-minutes barre video! Loved it! I added an arm burner too to make it a full body workout! Can’t wait for the rest of this weeks workouts!
Swam 3500 yards this morning and will be running for 50 minutes this afternoon. Also trying one of your bodyweight sessions, with a broken hand from a trail marathon, I can’t lift weights/grip them
I just did the Barre workout #3 video and absolutely loved it. I have been looking for a Barre video I really liked so this was perfect timing!
I did a strength workout this morning. Best way to start the week!
Did a strength workout today. Committed to get stronger this year!
Doing workout #3 today in my basement to avoid trying to get to the gym through all of this Wisconsin wind and snow!! Excited because I’ve never done a barre workout.
Workout 3 complete
Enjoyed my rest day yesterday!!
I didn’t end up taking a rest day yesterday and ran my long run of the weekend…7 chilly miles in Central Park! It’s snowing + raining (i.e. gross) here in NYC today so I’m staying in and resting.
Just did workout #3 and I think that’s the first time my inner thighs ever wanted to quit on me haha. Well done, Gina 😉
Checking in!
Switching up the schedule a bit and doing workout #2 + arm burner today. 🙂
pumped for the workouts this week! im switching the days up, but today was steady state, excited for arms tomorrow.
I just completed Workout 3 and it was great.
Loved the barre workout this morning! Definitely still feeling it three hours later.
Completed workout 3 # last night! Hoping to have a successful week 2 of the WSU. Thanks Gina!
Much needed rest day yesterday! Ready to start week 2 today! Going to switch up the workouts a bit with a Strength Challenge class at my gym today and some elliptical for steady state. Good luck to everyone today!
Love the Winter Shape Up!! Thanks for all your hard work to put it together!
Got in a great lower body and HIIT workout! Workout 3 is next on my agenda!
Workout 3 plus 10 minutes of steady state done!! Whoop!!
PS. my Week 2 link is not working?
Woke up and did a quick workout at the hotel gym before work!
Rested yesterday
Yesterday, I did a 35 minute FitnessBlender HIIT workout! I was a sweaty mess
Did HIIT circuit today!!
Loved workout 2!!! I did the video option and am looking forward to the printable!
Yesterday I ran 4 miles and did some stretching. I am so excited to do workout #3 today! It’s gonna go down during nap time!
Active rest day for me today! Yesterday was very active!
Workout #3 complete!! First time doing barre and I actually enjoyed it. When I finished I was like that ‘was no big deal’…and then I stood up, ‘Hello legs!’ =) Will be going for a 2-3 mile run at the gym at lunch for my steady state.
I ran 11 miles yesterday and 9 this morning! YAY!
Monday-Completed Workout #3 with 15mins on the elliptical. I loved this barre workout! My muscles were really feeling this. I need to strengthen my hips and glutes so this will become a regular part of my workout rotation.
Sunday = rest day!
Sunday I did a slow yoga sequence for flexibility! Not quite a rest day, but pretty close 🙂
Sunday rest day! Needed it after running my first 10k!
It’s yet another snowy day here. Got in a quick early am Bootcamp. Lots of shoveling likely later.
Workout 3 in the books and I think I will count my 1 hr of shoveling as my steady state.
Sunday was rest day
Workout 3 done! Steady state later when my husband gets home from work!
I ran 4 miles yesterday so today is a rest day! Can’t wait for workout 3!