Archive for the 'Workout Plans' Category
I’m going to be terribly ADHD this month and switch programs mid-month. I just got BeachBody’s ChaLEAN Extreme program (retail price $119.95) yesterday, and given how packed my gym has been this month and how little free time I have, the 30-minute workouts in the package are very appealing to me right now. Despite the [...]
Muscle & Fitness Hers 12-Week Makeover ProgramFor those who were interested, here is the Muscle & Fitness Hers 12-Week Makeover Program I am pulling my upper body workouts from for the rest of the year. As I’ve mentioned before, if your goal is really the Red Carpet Ready look, you probably don’t want to train this way because you WILL build [...]
Red Carpet Ready 6-Week Results and ReviewThe RCR Club Experience
I admit that I started celebrity trainer Val Waters’s Red Carpet Ready program with a healthy dose of skepticism about what it could actually do for me since I’ve been training and eating clean pretty consistently for over 4 years now, but I can’t argue with the numbers below. I have lost [...]
Celebrity trainer Valerie Waters whose Red Carpet Ready program I am currently following posted a pair of great workouts geared towards creating the Hollywood action babe look she gave to Jennifer Garner in Alias and Rachel Nichols who plays Scarlet in the upcoming G.I. Joe movie–lean and defined, but not quite as in-your-face powerful as [...]
M&F W5D5: Leg Workout (Month 2)I got on the scale out of habit this morning and was pleased to see 146.0 on the display. It looks like the consistency in food and exercise is starting to pay off. I was hanging at 148-149 for a while.
I am still debating the RCR contest. The M&F program seems to agree with my [...]
Now for some news…I’m loving my M&F 12-week program, but I’m toying with the idea of doing Valerie Waters’s Red Carpet Ready for the next 6 weeks as part of the contest going on at the RCR Club membership site. I signed up for the 2 week free trial last Tuesday, and I had planned [...]
M&F W4D3: Back/Bicep/Ab Workout (Month 1)As promised (albeit a few days late), here is the Back/Bicep/Ab workout I am currently doing every four days. The weights shown are what I used as of today.
PART
EXERCISE
SETS
REPS
WEIGHT
BACK
Wide-Grip Pulldown
5*
8-10
100 lbs x 8
One-Arm DB Row
3
8-10
30 lbs x 10
BICEPS
EZ Bar Curl
5*
8-10
40 lbs x 9
Assisted Chin Up
3
8-10
-40 lbs x 8
ABS
Plank
3
45 sec.
45 sec. x 3
Straight-Leg Crunch
3
15
BW x 15
Reverse [...]
M&F W3D5: Chest/Shoulder/Tricep Workout (Month 1)For the next three days, I’ll be posting the exact workouts I am doing for the first 4 weeks of the Muscle and Fitness Hers 12-Week Makeover program I am using through November. The program is a three-day training split with a fourth day devoted to cardio only. As of this post, I am starting [...]
