I’m just 1 person trying to get stronger. Unlike a friend of mine who is the strongest woman I know, I am a weakling. Sure, I can pick up my cats for a snuggle and haul a 40lb bag of their cat litter up or down a flight of stairs when necessary. I can box up a few hundred books and carry them to my car to give them away at a book festival. I have even been known to assemble an IKEA display cabinet or three on my own and get them up and into place. But when it comes to real muscles, I’m still working on those.
So when Ranier says “grab your heavier weights” I stuck with my 4lb weights through the whole workout instead of switching. I know my capabilities and am working up to heavier ones. There’s no shame in that, because that’s what is challenging to me. And the next time I do that workout, maybe I’ll switch to my 5lb or 7lb weights when he tells me to go heavier. One thing I love about my weighted gloves is that it allows me to add 1lb per hand to any of my workouts to step up the difficulty just a little bit.
My Week of Workouts
- Sunday (31 minutes): Dance Cardio Boot Camp with JJ Dancer + Summer Sweat and Sculpted Abs with Anna Renderer *both new to me
- Monday (25 minutes): Tae Bo Basics with Billy Blanks (used 1lb weighted gloves)
- Tuesday (36 minutes): Full-Body Workout With Weights with Raneir Pollard (used 4lb weights)
- Wednesday (32 minutes): Tabata Bootcamp with Kristina Earnest *new to me
- Thursday (33 minutes): Cardio and Toning Boot Camp with Allie Cohen from Barry’s Bootcamp (used 5lb weights)
- Friday (31 minutes): Cardo & Full-Body Toning From STRONG Nation with Ai Lee Syarief + Standing Abs Workout with Anna Renderer (used 7lb weight)
- Saturday (31 minutes): Calorie-Torching HIIT Workout With Weights with Anja Garcia (used 5lb weights) *new to me
Total: 219 minutes
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