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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Three miles on the treadmill for my steady state yesterday!
3 rounds of WO2 and upper body supersets this morning. i could barely lift my arms to wash my hair afterwards…
BURN SO GOOD – loved the Barre burner!! 🙂 🙂
I have to rearrange things today, I will be doing the Leg Burner X3, plus 15 minutes of steady state!!
Finally am able to workout again after this sickness and it felt so good
Sore today, doing today’s workout tomorrow. Got it set up at the house!
Whew, just did hiit and the upper body workout! Tough one!
Workout 2 with the arm shredder – complete!
I did Workut #2 and the arm workout today an HOLY JELLO ARMS BATMAN. Yeesh. I mean, I feel great but yowza! My arms need a nap. Is that a thing?
I’m not following the schedule but did 3 rounds of workout 1 this morning and loved it.
I am loving workout 2! I’ll get the upper body after work.
Woke up early for a Body Pump class!! Body is shaking and feeling the burn already!
For me today is Workout #3 and steady state so I’m doing the barre video and the warm up (about 10 minutes) of Insanity Cardio. 🙂
Yesterday I ran and walked for a cool down for steady state!
did arms and some steady state yesterday and a rest day today
Workout 2 done! That arm workout had me sweating!
40 min steady state today on the stair master!
Loved that this cardio fell on a Wednesday! Middle of the week and pushes me strongly into the rest of the week!
Did Workout #2 today + Upper Body.
My body is quite fatigued from WSU 2015 (hurt so good), so, I did a low impact version of workout #2. 🙂
steady state 35 min run today.
Did Workout #2 and an upper body circuit from Pop Sugar since I wanted to get the arms in but don’t have access to a gym.
If you have alternatives to some of the equipment-heavy routines from your own workout list that you would suggest, I would love to hear! All I have are a pair of 5-pound weights and typical apartment things like dining room chairs for barre, cans that I use as lighter weights, etc.
After I completed workout #2 & upper body I had to go out and shovel. Ouch! But thank you so much. I feel now with working out, I not only plan what workout I will be doing, I PLAN the time. You know people always said simply schedule your workout, but it never occurred to me to actually schedule it in like you would eating your lunch. You don’t forget about those….you just do it. Hope this motivates me to continue even after the Winter Shape Up.
Did a HIIT workout yesterday!
And on Monday, I took a Pilates Burn class!
Online Zumba for the first time this morning! I had no idea it was so much fun!!
Got workout 2 and the arm workout done!
Today was 30 min resistance training and a 3 mile steady state run!
Tuesday’s workout was a super sweaty spin class! The teacher showed music videos along with the playlist projected on the wall- pretty awesome!
I’ve been really slacking!! I have a ladies night boxing class tonight. Hopefully I win some good prizes!
Took a class today, but it incorporated squats, pushups, biceps, triceps, and rows, so it was sort of like what I was supposed to do today!
I did a really challenging vinyasa yoga practice this morning at 5:30am 🙂 followed by some HIIT on the elliptical.
I’ve loosely been following your WSU 2015 and it has been awesome. I did the arm shredder workout this morning and loved it. Plus I checked out the POSH podcast….incredible, great recommendation. Heard them give a shout to you in last weeks mix.
total body weight workout today…and more snow shoveling!
HIIT cardio and abs!
Barre class and a sweaty 60min vinyasa class! Im doing a 28day yoga challenge this month and am loving it so far!
Loved the barre burner!
Oh man that HIIT workout hurt so good!
Legs feel like jello – amazing leg burner!
25 Minutes of sweaty bike intervals and a good stretch. Some Core and Upper Body work to follow this evening.
Got the workout in today. Definitely a sweaty one!
I’m half marathon training, so I can’t participate in a lot of the daily workouts, but I did run 7.5 miles!
I switched around Tues/Wed, so did steady state on the elliptical and treadmill at lunch today.
doing uppper body soon!
<3 work out #2, did it along with some easy yoga today.
Workout 2 and upper body…wow!!
Zumba today for my steady state!
Workout #2 kicked my butt!! My arms are burning too!!
Workout 3 and steady state went down last night! My first Barre experience 🙂
Noodle arms arm’s shakey legs after workout#2 and the arm burner..hope I can carry my babies tomorrow!
Arm circuit this morning 🙂