Whilst in Barcelona, because I’m here for a while, I decided it would be best to join a gym near me, for anyone that is here its called Metropolitan Sagrilla Familial.
I like to do little and often, you don’t need to do much to get the body you want, just be consistent and work hard. Ive been doing something nearly everyday with one cheat day! I tend to do Cardio before I start to warm up, usually something on the treadmill but you can do anything just to warm yourself up. If you want to do longer on a piece of cardio equipment then thats up to you. If you run for longer that gives you long lean muscles as assessed to building them.
I then do a 20 minute blast after my cardio, I tend to do it fast to keep my heart rate up so that I’m still working my cardiovascular system, but you can do a completely different workout by just changing the speed of your exercises. My favourite pieces to use are a mat, a 5kg weight and a bar with 5kg on each side. If you have this equitpment at home then you can actually do this at home too. With these I do:
15x fast dead lifts with the bar (repeat 3 times) – this is to burn you out, I tend to take a short break after this one because It should be so that you can’t lift the bar anymore
15x slow dead lifts (repeat 3 times) – this is to create strength in your muscles, the more controlled you are, the more they have to work
15x over head presses with a squat (repeat 3 times)
15x bicep curls with the bar
15x bicep curls using the 5kg weight holding it above your head, elbows close to your head
I absolutely love this circuit, it doesn’t take long and really makes you feel great after it. It targets mainly upper body but experts say if you only ever did dead lifts with a bar you would be sorted and fully toned! So they’re worth doing..
After this I tend to couple it with a short ab workout which takes about 5-10 minutes. I do 3 exercises 10 reps. I change the exercises based on how I feel but I’ve put a few pictures underneath of some of my favourite ab exercises at the minute!
Happy Exercising!
Love G xx
This is the first ab exercise, put as much weight as you can on the rope and pull in down by crunching your abs in. To make it harder, add more weight and don’t fully sit up, keep tensed.
T
This is the second ab exercise, crunch knees in and legs out as straight and low as you can get them whilst keeping your core tensed. I often like to workout with a friend as its good for motivation.
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