This Week in Workouts

This week was normal and great except for the whole we are going to Disney thing- ahhhh, I cannot wait! The hubs has my whole birthday trip planned out and I am seriously excited. Here are a few of the things that have turned me into an sugared-up four year-old this past week.

1. The weather: It is perfect right now and the best thing to do in this sunny, 72-degree beauty is spend time outside. Specifically, outside with Disney characters around.
2. The new Festival of Fantasy Parade is up and running and I CANNOT wait to see it.
3. We will be staying at one of my favorite Disney hotels.
4. Raglan Road and EPCOT UK pavilion will be AWESOME on St. Patrick's Day. Along with all the other great things Disney will be doing in all the parks for this super fun holiday.
5. Silly, but I have this new pair of Tom's shoes that are ridiculously comfy and I will be able to wear them, possibly, without icing those toesies at night.
6. Looking at the almost completed Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. It. Looks. Awesome.
7. The annual funnel cake I allow myself to eat without sharing. Birthday traditions are the best!
8. Cronuts. EPCOT has cronuts.
9. Refer to number eight. Cronuts.
10. For the first time in 2014, neither the hubs or I are sick. That is enough reason to party for me!

My hope is to have a nice little sum-up after we get back with lots of pictures of foods, parades, festivities, and maybe a yoga shot or two. We will see how things roll. I will also be instagraming pictures (side note, is intagraming a word?) while we are there, so if you are not following me on instagram yet, be sure to start. Click here to follow. And now, to the workouts!

Since I had the mental capacity of a four-year-old on ecstasy this week, not a whole lot got done other than our corporate taxes (happy that is over and I will not think about it for a year), business goods, writing, writing, and more writing, and a couple of workouts mixed in. Actually, this week was quite productive, maybe I should get crazy excited more often?

Sunday: Lots of handstand practicing that left me feeling like my niece in her gymnastic classes. Then, this yoga flow and this one. Look, I am talking like her now too.

Monday: Rest Day

Tuesday: 2-mile interval run followed by core work and a great post-run yoga flow. I will share it one day, promise.

Wednesday: 10-minute ballet fusion arm workout that will be up soon. Then, this yoga flow. I also did this inversion flow with more handstand practice.

Thursday: Rest Day

Friday: 2.5-mile jog followed by that infamous post-run yoga flow.

Saturday: A day exactly like last Sunday :) I know, this week was the epitome of workout creativity. What can I say, I have Disney (and taxes-boo) on the mind.

Did you know that San Francisco is getting rainbow sidewalks? You can read about it here.

Dale Partridge also wrote a pretty neat-o article for anyone wanting to switch life up. Read about it here.

Women's Health Workout Review: Fast-Track Results

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The April issue of Women's Health Magazine has one of my favorite fitness idea compilations ever. Everyone is super busy these days, so they decided to make a few workouts that can be done in twenty minutes or less. Sounds perfect!

Since there are too many great workouts in this article, I cannot limit my review to only one. Instead, we will be review the three longest workouts that caught my eye first. This week we will review the longest of the three, then, next week will be the other two. These workouts are comprised of the twelve minute Cardio Burn, the fifteen minute Build Strength, Fry Fat, and the twenty minute Fast-Track Results workouts.

​Fast-Track Results

This treadmill workout is very similar to a few I have been eying, but quite a bit simpler. ​The mag says that participants who followed this treadmill workout three times a week saw the same results as those who worked out ten hours every week. Getting the same results with a fifth the time would be pretty awesome to almost every person out there!

I have been wanting to try a treadmill routine for a while, so this simple routine seemed like the perfect fit for this newbie interval trainer. The routine is very straight forward with a few minutes of warm up followed by one minute of sprinting and one minute of walking or light jogging done ten times. ​Sprinting should not be killer, they recommend keeping it at an 8 out of 10 on the insanity scale. I stayed between a slow speed of 4.5 and a sprint speed of 8 during the entire workout. And goodness, was this a workout.

The entire thing took me 27 minutes, including the three minute warm up and cool down. The time went by super fast and I burned about 266 calories. That it a much higher calorie burn than I thought my HRM would say. By the end of the workout I was dripping sweat and felt pretty good. After this treadmill workout, I am sold. Next week we will be having another treadmill workout review that I cannot wait to try!

If you are like me and do not do too much in the interval or treadmill workout department, I would recommend trying this to start. The workout flies by and the routine is easy enough that you will feel good afterwards, not dead. ​Plus, the workout can be done on a treadmill to spruce up a boring workout, or outside!