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Battle Rope Beatdown
As many chefs have a special sauce, I consider this HIIT workout my signature move. Several of my favorite workout partners (Evan and Mary) have gone head-to-head with me using this routine as a...
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Kickboxing: Endurance Set I
Don’t look like this chump. My most common instruction format is kickboxing. I teach it several times a week. While you can always do boxing drills without any equipment, it is both more difficult...
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Indie Spinning
Several years ago I taught indoor cycling classes. And I H-A-T-E-D it. The discomfort of the seat, paired with the sting of irony that you are working so ridiculously hard to go nowhere and...
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Cross Train Cardio
Happy Monday! I started my day purposefully donning my “Suck It Up, Buttercup” shirt, so I knew I needed to go hard for my first workout of the week. This is adapted from a Women’s Health workout,...
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Booty Routine
So, I’m going to admit, I’m kind of a little proud of my butt. Normally, my self-deprecating nature would forbid any appreciation of anything about myself, but I feel like I’ve earned my booty. Most...
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Indoor Cycling: Set BPM music
Hi everybody! I actually did this routine on Saturday, but I just moved and have yet to connect my internet, and had neither the dexterity nor gumption to type this all out on my smartphone, so I’m...
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(Grand) Total Madness!
I’m going to put a disclaimer on this workout. The version I did yesterday morning had me SERIOUSLY regretting doing it within the first 2 minutes. I then modified it for my two trainees this morning...
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Upper body countdown
Hi all, Still laboring under the lack of internet, so this is a few days late (I did this workout on Saturday). Being that I had slacked off substantially on my own workouts last week in preparation...
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Change or Accept
I work in the field of change. Everything I do requires the people I am with to change. At my full-time job, clients are manipulating the connections between neurons. At my part-time job, trainees...
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Date Night Spin
I often on Friday evening have the strain of feeling ready to celebrate being done with work juxtaposed against preparatory behavior for the fact I have to teach the next morning at 9:00am. This past...
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Backside Back Up
As I have previously stated in another one of my posts, I take a lot of pride in my derriere. And so it was a little disheartening when I heard that my tush had, well, shrunk a little. I realize that...
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Priming
I had such a great response to my last rant about how to get motivated that I thought I would create another one. Also, I have had not a lot of sleep this week, which always makes me ready to write...
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Look Who’s Back
Hi guys! Missed me? Okay, I know I’ve been a little m.i.a. lately. I have been in training for the upcoming Cooper River Bridge run, and as my time outside of regular work and teaching classes is...
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The Legendary Cardio Strength Intervals (CSI20)
Every Monday and Thursday night I teach a strength training class dubbed by the former instructor as CSI (Cardio Strength Intervals). While this seems like an easy, fun, informative name choice, I...
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The “Look Like A Tool In Public” Workout
Sometimes, I’m an idiot. Today would be a prime example. I have been living it up fat-cat style since the Warrior Dash on June 1st, avoiding running like the plague. I had finally reached an...
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Intention
This morning, after my mother stood me up for our regular 6 a.m. workout, I decided to go for an early run. Today was just going to be about mileage. I parked, I laced my car key into my shoes, and I...
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Friday Dance Party Spin
What is a girl to do stranded alone on a Friday night? Naturally, eat popcorn and watch her saved Hulu episode of “Next Food Network Star”. Oh, and go shopping at Marshalls. Wrong answer? Oh, I mean,...
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Fun App
Hey, remember me? Me neither. Anyway, just wanted to give a brief nod to something cool I stumbled upon recently. I by “stumbled upon”, I mean “was badgered the hell out of on my social media sites...
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World Cup Tabata
I have fairly successfully avoided watching the ongoing soccer tournament, but my class participants had been badgering me for weeks for a World Cup themed class. I caved this past weekend for my...
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Animal Tabata
Another themed class! This one is actually really hard and (in my opinion) quite fun. Just don’t make the mistake I did and wear a very non-breathable cotton shirt just because it had cheetah print…...
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