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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Reverse HILL SUICIDES completed this morning!!! So refreshing!
Did the lower body workout followed by some stair climbing with my kindle 🙂
Workout 2 + the arm burner. My arms are dead!
The snowstorms are killing me with trying to stay on track with WSU …!!
today was officially a rest day for me but i took a nice walk at lunch and threw in some stair climbing at the end
This lean leg burner is killing me! (In a delicious way of course) did 2 rounds and I’m now on the treadmill stretching my legs a bit before finishing one more 🙂
Arms day!
I did workout #5 today to stretch out my legs from the leg burner I did yesterday!!! My legs are sure feeling it today! (ps. I LOVE workout #5 from week 1).
Yesterday was my rest day so today I did workout #2 + Arm Shredding Supersets. Struggled and sweated, but I feel so amazing now!
Did 3 miles on the treadmill last night.
done the lower body workout!
I had to adjust the schedule due to some travel, but just finished a five-mile interval workout on the treadmill. Glad to be done!
Switched around my workouts a bit this week so I got my steady state in today!
HIIT video and BOTH upper and lower body workouts today…yikes. Had to squeeze the rest of the week in before heading to NYC for the weekend 🙂 Never thought I’d be going to NY in February to escape the snow.
checking in for Tuesday: did a nice brisk walk on the treadmill for steady state.
checking in for Wednesday: glad I’m not the only one who thought workout #2 felt harder this time around. Loved the arm shredder.
Today’s leg burner was a doozy. Did it 2x, and glad it’s over with. Hoping I don’t have too much of a waddle tomorrow!
Hot and sweaty vinyasa class today! Can’t wait to try the leg burner tomorrow!
20 Mins of HIIT on the treadmill followed by your upper body HIIT workout! I love that one and perfect while I am traveling and have to use Hotel Gyms!
today was lower body day at quidditch.. i think we did about 100 squats. blah.
Today I did 3 rounds of the lower body workout. Added a couple other exercises as well for lower body, a little ab work and push ups. Glad there was nothing else on the schedule because I was beat. 🙂
I’ve been super sick for the past week and have therefore failed to get in any solid workouts. I finally felt well enough to attempt something tonight so I did Workout #3 followed by a 30 minute vinyasa yoga video! Workout #3 had me shaking–I love barre!
I did a upper and lower body workout.
Rest day for me!
Lean, lovely Leg Burner, you’re killing me! Loved it! My knees are sweating…
I had to skip the workout yesterday to be on call, but I just finished workout #2 and the upper body workout. Off to a late late dinner!
Did a killer upper body workout today!
Rest day and my glutes/thighs are thanking me after doing the barre video! 🙂
Just completed the lower body burn! I also did 30 mins steady state since I missed Tuesday!
I had to take a “rest day” because of a late work day and went out for a bit to celebrate my anniversary. I walked quite a bit though – we track steps, etc. using a little “pebble” device for work.
I took the rest day today instead of Friday. I am sore and body needed a rest….the workouts are kiçking my booty!
I did the arm shredder during my lunch break (LOVED IT) and went to Pure barre after work tonight. Capped it off with a 15 minute walk with one of my pups!
Rest day here! And it was much needed. I’m having some hip soreness. Any tips? I’m foam rolling a lot but still pretty uncomfortable. I just finished my second whole 30, and started the reintroduction phase. So I’m wondering if it’s diet related.
it might be the impact in conjunction with the diet. try low impact and see how that feels!
Thanks!:)
Lower body workout done. After a 12 hour shift. Owww. Lol…
Workout # 2 made me so sore ai only got through one round of the leg burner 🙁 I did push myself to do it after the baby went to bed so that is something!
Did the leg burner twice!! Gonna be sore in the am!
Checking in!
Forgot to post yesterday when I did workout #2 and that tough arm shredder!
Today was yoga, so I swapped that an some interval cardio in for my workout today.
Treadmill run this morning…hoping for at least 4 miles
So happy today is an off day because after yesterday’s workout, I’m donezo!
Just finished up the leg shredder + the give planks video for my 10 minutes of cardio! I’m going to be honest, as jelloey as my legs are feeling right now, I totally miss it when we do a full HIIT workout. Can’t wait for tomorrow! I’m going to try to get my husband to do it with me… we’ll see how that goes. 😉
switched thursday and friday. thursday was just a couple of 40 minute walks with the dog. friday i did 3 rounds of the leg burner and inbetween those i did 5 different ab exercises. Happy friday y’all!
Thankful for this day of rest! My legs say, ‘Thank you!”
doing some yoga today!
Yesterday was a running day. 4 miles with intervals on the treadmill!
Monday’s barre workout was awesome! Loved it.
I switched things up this week and did Thursday’s workout today. Left my legs dying! I could barely do the plyo sections for a minute straight. Let’s just say there were lots of mini rests…. Definitely harder for me than the arm workout! Workout #1 is definitely my favorite so far, glad to see it’s on here and am excited for it tomorrow!
Today for me was workout #1 times 3! 🙂
A much needed rest day today! Happy Friday!!!!!!
I took my rest day on Wednesday, did Workout #2 and the arm shredder last night and today woke up early early to do the leg burner and my knee just wasn’t havin it! So I did a different leg burner that focused on donkey kicks, leg lifts, fire hydrant lifts and wasn’t so squat/lunge heavy which seemed to be causing the unusual pain under my kneecap. Boo to not doing what was scheduled but props to myself for coming up with a plan B only halfway into my coffee at 5:30am 😉