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Hello beautiful people! I am excited about this post. I'm really excited about any post because it means I get to help you change your life. :) Today is a post following my post The Good Foods but it's going to focus on..... working out. The variety of workout you can do to burn calories is endless, so I'm not going to be telling you what exercises to do. I'm going to give you resources so you can choose what you kind of exercise suites your personality. I'm going to share what I've done from the beginning, all the different places I have found random exercises and routines.What I can remember, that is.  WARNING: this list may be long. Hah.

Couch to 5K: I still use this app to this day. I really like it. Starting out I was not able to even think of running for 5 minutes... I was dying after about 30 seconds. With this app I can now run a few miles. It trains based on interval training. Ex: run 2 minutes, walk 3 minutes working you up to running an entire 5K. This app is what made me love running. Not only does it help you get off the couch, but in 8 weeks you'll be able to run your first 5K. Let me tell you running across the finish line of your first 5K is the most amazing feeling, it's indescribable.

Next: For a while I did a variation of my own collection of workouts, and surprisingly I still have the list on my iPhone, LUCKY YOU. :)

Home workout: You'll need hand weights.... and eventually ankle weights.

I did 12 reps of each exercise and repeated the workout 3 times. It's important to do three times.

Bicep Curls
Side Lifts

Back Lifts

Then bend arms to a 90% angle.

Overhead Lifts

Push Ups- Remember to keep your hands below your shoulders and if you need to you can rest your knees on the ground.
Leg back lift

Fire Hydrant

Side ankle raise

30 crunches- Any form of crunch works, just remember not to hold the back of your head.
jumping squat- Focus on getting your legs to be as close to a 90% angle as possible, and your knee behind your ankle.
calf raises- If you don't have stairs no worry, just hold some weights in your hands and lift your heels off the ground.

I did this every other day of the week and when it was no challenging for me to finish my rep count I would ad a couple pounds to my weights. But if it's too challenging to finish the rep count (the right form is being altered) move to the next workout, but repeat to complete the three cycles.

Another App I found was Nike Training

This app IS AWESOME. You can choose what you want to work on, and really gets your sweating. I love it. It has a count down timer  for the entire workout and a count down timer for each exercise.

Okay people, one of my best friends for probably my first 30 lbs was.... the bike. The STATIONARY bike. Oh, if you walked into my house around 8 pm you would see me riding furiously on a bike watching TV and trying to talk with my mom. That last bit didn't work to well but lets just say I was dripping wet every night, I worked for my shower. :)

Yep it's an old school looking one, just like this. At first I hated those moving arms, but then I realized that it was an upper arm workout and I fell in love with it. :)

I did all these exercises till I went to school and after that I started going to the gym where I fell in love with a few pieces of exercise equipment, consisting of:



Tread Mill

Rowing Machine

Bosu Ball (great for squats)

 

 

Weight Balls

 





Right now I'm doing the insanity program and am almost done with it.

 

Here is what I have mostly done. While I have listed all this for you, I want you to know that any form of activity is good. Bike riding, hiking, swimming, dancing... anything is great. So, get out and move.

 

Have any questions, leave a comment. :)

 

Adios