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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Today I taught Pilates instead of the WSU workout.
I didn’t have time to do a “real” workout today so I did a 5 minute burst once an hour while I was at work. It made the day go by much faster.
4 mile treadmill run this morning!
Steady state done!! Still sore brim barre yesterday!
monday was steady state — walking the dog twice!
today was the barre workout since i couldnt fit it in on monday and a 45 minute walk this morning. will likely walk her tonight.
Today was steady state and Gossip Girl!
Steady state on the agenda today!
“shake out” run today…. my legs are sore!
30 min stroller run is on the agenda for today!
Barre burner + steady state for this cold morning. Feeling warm already!
I did steady state last night and am planning to do Monday’s workout today instead!
Tonight I’m doing some leg work
Today’s steady state was 4 miles on the treadmill… not my favorite way to run, but the Posh podcast made it much more enjoyable!! Thanks so much for putting it on my radar! And I loved your shout-out 🙂
My legs are definitely feeling those pulses! Added some total body HITT afterwards.
Hey Gina! I’ve been enjoying WSU, but am continuing to have a problem posting on your (and now Anne’s) pages to enter into the giveaways. I can post from one computer to your page (here) but when I post to Anne’s, my post goes up and says it’s awaiting moderation and then a few hours later, it disappears. It’s really frustrating! I promise I’m not a spammer! LOL
I did some shuffling this week, so last night I did workout #1×2. Last time I only made it through once, so I was excited!
Went to the best spin class on Monday!!! Feeling great!
30 minutes steady state done this morning!
Run day for me today. Treadmill. 🙁
4 mile run on treadmill (too cold outside!)
Legs are still shakey from barre yesterday. Love it! Can’t wait for steady state tonight
A 4-mile steady state run this morning! I am sore from the barre video yesterday and all of the shoveling!
I did thr barre workout today!
Woke up early for a 45 minute elliptical steady state workout!
35 minutes of steady state done!! My legs are sore from barre! Love it! Can’t wait till tomorrow’s HIIT and arm burner!
I do not have a pull-up bar, do you have any suggestions? Thanks Gina!
Zumba today for the steady state cardio!
I am loving the variety in all these workouts. It was my first barre workout and I really enjoyed it, followed by a short 10 minute Blogilates cardio routine! 🙂
Did the barre workout followed by a two mile run on the treadmill, felt great!
For this morning’s workout, I’m headed to my apartment’s gym to do steady state on the elliptical for 30 minutes.
Awesome variety of workout! Yesterday was cardio and a Body Pump class and I will have to see what today brings. 🙂
Yesterday I did HIIT for 10 mins then a Barre3 60 min class (my biscuits are still burning) and I have a steady state treadmill run planned for tonight. 🙂
Workout three done!! Feeling the burn and loving it!
Forgot to post yesterday…did workout#2 and the arm shredder yesterday. I was really proud of myself because last time I did work out 2 I only went through it twice, but this time I went the whole 3 rounds plus the arm shredder!! I was really happy to see what I could accomplish!!
Got 30 mins of steady state and Pilates in for the day
Forgot to post yesterday, but I did workouts 2 and 3-i was snowed in!
Did yesterday’s workout this morning–a 15 minute run (in the dark!) plus workout #3!
30min tredmil run and a hot hatha class will do it for me today before work!
Also, yesterday (Monday) I did a 60min RIPPED class, 10min steady state, and then a 60min hatha class that was amazing!
Barre sore but loving it! 5 mile walk today with my Mom followed by some ab workout!
3 miles on the treadmill last night.
Completed workout 3 today!!!! Oh the burn is so good 🙂
Did foam rolling yesterday!
Track work and arms today
Got my steady state done
Switching the schedule up a bit this week, so did Workout #2 and upper body workout today. 4 sets of those moves was tough!
Steady state followed by vinyasa yoga for me this morning!
Got to the gym on time this morning and completed the workout, even after getting home around 1 am from a late-night shift!
I did yoga this morning for my steady state. Nothing like stretching those muscles out and having some inner peace time 🙂
Monday was workout #5 and today was #1! Legs are going to be sore tomorrow!!:)