You may have noticed I was missing for a couple weeks or so. I got sick for about 10 days (weird random fever-causing virus) and didn’t work out much for over a week. Then when I got back into it I had such a busy week that I didn’t take time to post. But this week I am back. I decided to restart the Push phase of ChaLEAN Extreme last week — I love this heavy weightlifting after all, and I felt derailed a bit by my break. So now I’m starting my second week of Push. LOVE it.
I’ve really got to stop calling them “Figaway Giveways.” It’s just so dorky. Anyway, dorky though it may be, the giveaway this past week was a fairly popular one and I was sorry there could be only one winner. To pick the winner, I counted up the number of commenters (each person only got one entry even if they commented twice) and then used the random number generator to choose a winner.
As you can see, it chose #6, Sara (the first Sara, who posted on March 28th). (more…)
I’m still plugging away at the first circuit (called the Burn circuit) of ChaLEAN Extreme. I am finishing up week 3 and week 4 will start on Monday. I think that’s the last week and then I’ll start part 2, the Push circuit. I have really been enjoying these workouts and I love Chalene’s personality. She is such a cute little bundle of muscle and energy. She’s very good at the motivation aspect of the workouts. I also like that they aren’t very long–just something like 30-40 minutes each. That works well for my busy mom schedule.
Has anyone else who has done this program want to pop in and tell us how you liked it? I have some friends who got great results; maybe one of them will pop in and tell us about it. Otherwise, you can see one woman’s amazing before and after pictures by clicking on those links. One commenter on the after pic said she suspected the woman pictured had a tummy tuck as well–what do you think? I think that’s a possibility–that lose skin is hard to get rid of even if you lose the fat (take that from someone who’s had three big babies and who is considering a tummy tuck some day).
Speaking of babies, here’s what baby Cormac often does while I’m working out.
Tomorrow I’ll be starting an exciting new workout program called ChaLEAN Extreme by Chalene Johnson. Well, it’s new to me, anyway. A lot of my friends were doing it a year ago, but I was pregnant and didn’t want to do a heavy weights program at that time. So now I finally have it myself and I’m ready to go. I ordered it from BeachBody through my friend Jenn, who is a BeachBody coach — there’s a link for her over there on the right ——>.
It’s a 3-phase 12-week program, so that’s 4 weeks a phase (duh). Tomorrow I’ll start the first phase — Burn Circuit. It looks fun but tough. Not only do they have the weight workout DVDs but the program also came with a very helpful guidebook, a food guide, a DVD full of tips about form for the exercises and info about nutrition, etc., cardio and ab DVDs, a motivational CD, a resistance band, a thigh toner band, and a body fat tester thingey. I also ordered some bonus DVDs because I’m crazy like that. (more…)
I just added a link to my Fitness Fig Tools page to a Beachbody PDF file of weight worksheets for Chalean Extreme. You can also click here to find it. I know this one is very popular right now so I’m sure a lot of people will find this handy if they haven’t been using it already. I’m sure I’ll need it when I do this workout postpartum. I plan to convert this info to an Excel file soon for those of us who like to enter our data right on the computer rather than printing the form and filling it out by hand. I’m too tired after a crazy day to do that today but I’ll get to it soon and mention it here when I upload it to the Tools page.
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