Weekly Workouts

To give you all some ideas of how to change up your workouts, every Sunday, I'm going to post the workouts that I did every day throughout the past week. It's important to change up your workouts because you don't want your body to get used to doing the same thing day after day, letting yourself fall into a workout rut. If you change up your workout, it allows the body to stay alert, optimizing your results. Doing the same workout for more than three days straight is not recommended in order for you to continue seeing results over a long period of time. If you do the same thing every day, it will become harder for you to lose weight and even maintain a steady weight.

I'm still in the beginning phase of starting to workout, so this is a good first week workout, just adjust the routes if you want a flatter route or adjust the mileage to your ability.

***Click on the exercise for the strength training to see a short YouTube clip of how to do that exercise.***

Sunday May 25: ran/walked 3 miles, route was mostly uphill.
Monday May 26: ran/walked 3 miles.
Tuesday May 27: walked 3 miles with dog, mostly flat route.
Wednesday May 28: I either didn't do a workout, or I don't remember what my workout was. Sorry!
Thursday May 29: ran/walked 2 miles with dog.
Strength Training:

• Abs
• 15 sit ups
• 6 crunches
• 10 second plank
• Butt (Glutes)
• 15 squats, no weight
• 5 bridges
• 10 lunges (each side)
• Legs
• 10 second wall sit
• 5 lateral lunges (each side)
• 10 scissors
• 5 fire hydrants (each side)
• 5 plie squat pulses
• Arms
• 15 push ups, on knees
• 5 dips
• 10 bicep curls
• 10 seconds of punches

Friday May 30: ran/walked 2 miles with dog
Strength Training:

• Abs
• 19 sit ups
• 6 crunches
• 12 second plank
• 5 woodchoppers, no weights
• 5 second side plank (each side)
• 10 ankle touches
• 10 russian twists
• Butt (Glutes)
• 20 squats
• 5 bridges
• 10 lunges
• Legs
• 20 second wall sit
• 8 lateral lunges (each side)
• 15 scissors
• 8 fire hydrants (each side)
• 8 plie squat pulses
• Arms 
• 19 push ups, on knees
• 8 dips
• 15 bicep curls
• 15 seconds of punching

Saturday May 31: Ran/walked 3 miles, lots of uphill

Strength Training:

• Abs
• 10 woodchoppers, no weights
• 8 second side plank (each side)
• 16 ankle touches
• 16 russian twists
• Butt (Glutes)
• 20 squats
• 10 bridges
• 15 lunges
• Legs
• 30 second wall sit
• 10 lateral lunges (each side)
• 20 scissors
• 10 fire hydrants (each side)
• 10 plie squat pulses
• Arms
• 10 push ups
• 10 dips
• 20 bicep curls
• 20 seconds of punching

Hopefully that gives you some ideas of how to start working out/what to do if you're stuck in a rut.