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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Yesterday was supposed to be a rest day, but I did 2 Insanity Max workouts to catch up on them from last week! I don’t think I’ll be doing that again lol… back to back was TOUGH! haha
Completed an eeeeeeeearly morning 3mi run today!
I was doing such a good job with the winter shape up (I <3 the videos!), then I decided to learn to snowboard on Friday. My first and only fall of the day left me with a bruised tailbone. Now I need to figure out what I can do that doesn't hurt!
Rest day yesterday felt glorious!
I took an “active rest day” yesterday and did a Buti yoga workout. I hadn’t done Buti in a while; it was fun and stretched me out as well. I plan to do workout #3 and at least 10 minutes of steady state cardio after work tonight. Looking forward to workout #3; I love barre workouts!
Workout 3 and steady done, and holy shaking legs!! 🙂
Workout 3 done with a 20 minute HIIT workout!
Yesterday was a rest day with just a walk. Today is back at it with a stroller walk with the kids and workout 3.
Rest day included a walk with my husband around the neighborhood ?
Just finished the barre workout – small but powerful movements! Was my first barre workout. Then steady state on my bike.
10 mins of steady state and workout #3 done! Loved the barre video!
Monday done! Workout 3 + shovelling + leisurely treadmill walk. Feels great!
Yesterday was a rest day and today I ran!
Rested yesterday and did the barre workout this morning!
Strength circuit + 3 miles yesterday. Workout 3 + flow yoga today. Looking forward to the barre workout!
I did some stretching at the house yesterday for Rest day.
Completed the barre video this morning…loved it!
Fun to have a barre workout in the mix!!
I completed workout #3 this morning and it was tough! Those fine-tuning muscle movements are no joke!
We got such a brutal snowstorm here in windsor, ontario yesterday that I spent a lot of yesterday and most of this morning shovelling. Wow. I think I’m fit…until I try to shovel over a foot of snow.
40 minutes of cycle class + 20 minutes of elliptical (Today, I used as a cardio day).
Did a Hiit It! workout on Sunday morning!
Spin class and toning circuit today! 🙂
Did workout 3 today! Never done Barre before, and loved it!!
Did 20 minutes steady state and hope to tackle workout # 3 tonight.
Did some treadmill walking this weekend, it was way too cold to be outside. I was hoping the groundhog wouldn’t see his shadow…
Taught spin this morning and I’m taking body pump tonight!
Rest day yesterday with a four-mile run on the plan for this snow day! (Completed on the treadmill, since the temperature is in the single digits here. Eek!)
I just finished up an intense 45-minute lunchtime spin class!
I did workout #3 this morning and my muscles are already feeling it! 🙂
Squats this morning!
I did a leg work out yesterday along with some stair climbing.
Did the workout today (even in the aftermath of the blizzard Chicago got this weekend). I then helped finish up shoveling when I got home.
Ran on my new treadmill yesterday! Love it! 6 miles total. Today will be a total body weight workout…and more snow shoveling 🙁
Did workout #3 + 10 min walk/jog this morning, then a relaxing/easy 40 min walk over lunch.
Loved workout #3 this morning! Planning to get my steady state cardio in tonight 🙂
just did workout 3!
I got rained out of my run yesterday so I went to Pure Barre instead. Super sweaty and intense!
Bar video and an hour of shoveling for my steady state
Am I the only one having a difficult time figuring out how to arrange my fitness schedule? It seems harder this time around–it’s the same # of workouts but w/ the variety of workouts it feels more overwhelming to me. I’m sure it’s just me:) Anyway, I’m heading to the gym after school to do wo #1 today!
Since I did WO3 + 10 Min Steady state yesterday, I did another steady state workout today! I ran for 45 min. at the gym (14+ inches of snow means no outside runs). Enjoying the surprise day off!
Did Workout #1 3 times this morning–plus an extra round of tabata for kicks. Loved it! I’ll do today’s workout sometime later this week; I’m looking forward to the barre video!
a short run and then a walk!
That barre video was wonderful! I have a bad habit of thinking of barre as wimpy and I always end up taking that back by the time I finish!! Did some agility drills at a steady state to finish it out.
Finished today’s workout!
Hooooly shaky legs! Did the barre video + your 10 min ab barre video + 10 min jumping jacks/jogging in place for steady state 🙂
3.4 mile run this morning, will do Barre workout when I get home from work!
Workout 3 is done and my legs are still shaking!
Took a barre class this morning!
I did workout 3 which may have been a bad idea as I don’t own a wheelchair and will likely be unable to walk tomorrow. Now I’m off to do my steady state!