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Posted by Christian Aguirre on Mon, Apr 16, 2012 @ 12:19 PM
So it is Sunday, I just got home from the gym. My son’s in the other room playing, you might hear him in the background. He might even come say hi. But basically what I did was I made this video and I posted it even on Face Book but I wanted to make it for all of you. See I told you he might come over (say hi Koa, Koa says hi). So basically what I did today on the treadmill was I, it’s a new challenge for you. I committed, I was determined I said I’m gonna do 6 miles today.
Then I also committed to making it harder at 4 miles and then making it a little bit hard for my last 2 rounds and my last 1 round of my 4 minute intervals. So basically what I want you to do, it does not have to be 6 miles that you commit to, and the Cardio Challenge is whatever level that you are. You commit to your levels, next time you do it you make it a little bit harder.
You pick something right now that you feel like you could do and you make it a little bit harder next time. So basically what I did and this is what I want you to do; I did for the first, let’s just say 65% of your workout. So if you’re gonna commit to 3 miles because that’s what you want to do, then at a little over a mile and a half that’s when you’re gonna make the changes.
So that’s what I mean by do it at your level and then next time go for a little bit longer; commit for 3 ½ miles, commit to 4 miles, so you always make it a little bit harder and change your results. I literally had to write this down so I made the video for Face Book ‘cause it was right when I got off the treadmill and then now I want to make it again for all of you guys that aren’t on Face Book.
So basically what I did was, I did 4 miles, 4 minute (everything was 4 minute intervals) the first 4 miles; my first 2 minutes were at 6.8, my 3rd minute was at 7.5 and my 4th minute was at 9.0. I warmed up at 6.6 for one minute, literally, as soon as I was done with my one minute that’s when I started with this. Then, after I hit 4 miles my next round I decided that I was going to make it harder. My first 2 minutes of my 4 minute zone, was 7.0, my next minute was 7.7, and my last minute of my 4 minute interval was 9.2. Then I went into a little over, I did that until a little over 5 miles.
Then basically how it was was I knew that I had 2 rounds left and then that would get me to my 6 minutes. So my second to last round I bumped up even more and I did 7.3 at my first 2 minutes; 8.1 at my 3rd minute and 9.4 at my last minute and then I was almost at 6 miles. So my last interval was a 3 minute interval and I made it a little bit harder so the first minute was 7.5; the second minute was 8.5; and the last minute was 9.6 and I didn’t even make it the whole minute.
The last minute wasn’t even a full minute; I think it was like 45 seconds. As soon as I hit 6, I got off, took a picture of it to post on Face Book. So, that was my 6 miles, got off, made my video. I don’t know what I was on today but I was like super hyper; I just did a fitness conference yesterday, got all these great new ideas, super fired up! Got on the Stairmill for about 20 minutes, started at 11 and literally worked my way up to like 14.
That’s not the point of the video; the point of the video is this cardio workout. So basically that’s the thing, I was just talking about how I was on a new high. So basically New Cardio Challenge does not have to be 6 miles, does not have to be these numbers but if you want you can try them. It’s not easy. So try it, let me know what you guys think, let me know what you did. Leave your comments but again, do it today. I had somebody that just left me a comment and they were like, "I will never be able to do 6 miles, I’m gonna do whatever".
I’m like, don’t ever say never because you can do it. You just might not start there. Literally, the first time I ever ran I ran one mile you know? And then I eventually built myself up. There are endless possibilities to your cardio journey, to your workout journey. There is no, no end to this. So even when you get to maintenance of where ever it is that you’re at, you can still challenge yourself. I’m still trying to find cool new things, next time I do this I’m going to bump up my zones or I might try something different. I mean I might put it on an incline the whole entire time.
So you can always make something harder, ‘cause eventually if I was to try this again, or do it 2 more times, this is gonna be a little bit too easy for me and I’m not gonna sweat. So always push a little bit harder, start at one mile, start at two miles, start at 3, whatever it is that you’re level is. So that being said, I think I babbled, my son wants to go play with Play-Doh. I’ma go play with him because that’s how I roll. My Sunday is my day but I just really wanted to give this to you. I did this before he even woke up; I was out of my house. Technically it was daylight, not daylight savings, it was actually ahead. So I got up at like 3 o’clock in the morning in my brain but it was really 4 o’clock in the morning; answered food logs, went to the gym, did these videos and now I’m gonna spend the rest of the day with my baby.
So love you guys, hope you like this one, always new challenges, always for you. You guys make me a better trainer, I’m always looking for new ways to challenge you and obviously it helps that I’m the kind of trainer that wants to do it first before I give it to you. So go do it, alright, go! And if you want to say in your face Jenn I did it for 9 miles, or I started at higher zones, please I love that. You want to know what, now I’m gonna probably have to do that if somebody was to say that. So I love you guys and go work hard.
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Posted by Christian Aguirre on Mon, Apr 09, 2012 @ 12:46 PM
So the first thing I want to say is that it really means a lot to me, those of you who came here, that are coming here for the first time, those of you that know my reputation as a butt-whupper and are here anyway, those of you that are doing a double day, those of you that came in here on a Saturday and everybody obviously that donated in some way shape or form, ‘cause the whole point in me doing this every first Saturday of the month is all going towards cancer and the Susan G. Komen walk that I’m doing (walk 60 miles Jesus lord) in 3 days in September so I really, really first and foremost want to just say that I appreciate that you’re doing this.
That you’re willing to take the time to give me your money and to get beat up by me; that’s number one. I already said that, I already addressed the fact that I have some clients that have been here for 90 minutes from this morning, from 9-10:40 some of them and now are back to do it again for cancer. Those of you that have cones in front of you, those are clients, you guys will know the actual moves so for my new people I want you to glance over at the people with the cones ‘cause they know the movements.
Now the last thing that I’m gonna say is that my motivation is always people that are dealing with something worse. I’m always posting on Face Book pictures of people running that have amputated legs, people that have no arms that are squatting with barbells and literally and I’m always posting, saying there’s no excuse. Fasciitis in my feet, pulled hamstring, tendonitis in my shoulder, bursitis in my hip, Crohn’s Disease, colitis and a hypothyroid so I should be overweight. If I can do it, anybody can do it.
But basically what I just want to tell you guys is that these people that you’re doing it for are struggling to live. So when you’re sitting there and you’re crying about the workout being hard, that’s what I want you to think of so that you stop crying and you keep going. On that note, again, thank you. Unfortunately today is a lot of timed exercises, so I will explain the movements, thank you.
(To the class) “30 seconds, halfway there. Together, side, together, side. Don’t stop, don’t stop, (I love my theme music) you can give it all you got. Nice obliques, definitely makes the hiney look nice, the waist looks small, the shoulders look big. If you don’t want shoulders it doesn’t make the shoulders look big, I was just kidding but if you do want them to then they look big. It’s all about customer service.
10 seconds, come on Michael Jackson! Come on Michael Jackson, come on! Come on, come on! Chest up, butt back, show off the goods! Show off the goods! It’s for the cause, drop it like it’s hot! Yes Darcel! Cone on David! Yes David! Arms up, arms up! $505 to cancer, let’s go!”
Look at that, it is 1:30, 90 minutes gone. Look at this, its official, I think I killed them. Thanks everyone!
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Posted by Christian Aguirre on Mon, Apr 09, 2012 @ 12:43 PM
Alright, so I’m just sitting here digesting; my car’s over there, I just finished eating. I always pack my lunch, you guys know that. So basically it’s probably been about a ½ an hour, you usually want to wait about a ½ an hour or 45 minutes after you’ve finished eating to go do a workout. But, if you ever, ever, ever are running short on time; all you have is an hour of a lunch break and it takes you 15 minutes to eat and you can squeeze in something quick, I have made up a little 20 minute, quick leg workout.
Or you can do more rounds of this if you’re not on lunch break and you just want some ideas for some cool leg stuff. So basically what I’m gonna do is I’m gonna come over here and we’re gonna do a few little warm up leg things. Basically what I’ve done is grab my tubes, you don’t have to use tubes you can put your hands by your ears to activate more of the glutes.
So here, just get into a position and give yourself 50 squats with a little tension, or if you don’t have anything… and don’t stand all the way up, keep the tension on the quads. Don’t stop, this is your warm up, 50 of these. Now, as soon as your legs are warm we’re gonna go right into some jump squats on here. If you want to make it even harder you can jump completely over it; so, boom, here. You want to make it even harder than that you can start low in the frog position. You want to make it even harder put your hands by your ears, take your arms out of the equation, do what I told you. So you can just jump off and jump on for about twenty of those.
You really want to kill your glutes even more go ahead and take a tube if you have one. It’s like tube walking; hold your tube like a golf club, pull the tension; open, close. We’re not in a Michael Jackson video so we’re not doing this, ‘k? Open, close, back and forth as many as you can. Another one; go ahead and put your foot back here, stretch out ‘til you really feel it in this hip flexor and in this glute back here.
Here, pit your hands up again to activate more of the glute and do not stop. The cement’s a little slippery or it could be my new, cool Asics. And then switch and do the other side. You guys get the idea, up and down as fast as you can. You want to get more plyo? Put one foot, now you just, literally you had this leg in the back, then the other leg, now this leg up top, hands here, Plyo Step-Ups.
That was what? 5? 6? And then, you really want to work those glutes? One more exercise for you; you lay down, put one foot on here or both if you need to and give me bridges. Squeeze, abs are tight, glutes are squeezing that million dollar bill. If you want to make it even harder you can do single leg. So you’re gonna feel it in your hamstrings.
Done! Go around all those. Go back up even though technically those squats with the tube or by the head were your warm up you can go right back because your legs are gonna be tired, you just finished working the hamstrings. Go back to your squats, go around this. If all you’ve got is 20 minutes, do it for 20 minutes.
If you’ve got more than that go around it as many times as you possibly can for 50, 55 minutes, one hour. Get dynamic; if you have access to a gym get some weights on that. You can hold two dumbbells here as you do the plyos; you can do jump squats with dumbbells. Lower the risers at first until you get used to jumping.
I hope you guys liked this; this was a quick one, whoo! I think I’m gonna need to eat again. So let me know what you think, quick little outside workout. Worked the quads, worked the glutes, worked the hiney; those are the glutes. Alright, bye guys.
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Posted by Christian Aguirre on Mon, Apr 02, 2012 @ 09:13 AM
Okay, so we’re here with your outdoor workout. So basically I’m at a park; all I need is a medium tube, I got my jump rope over there and I got a swing, that’s it. So I’m gonna run through a couple reps of each exercise, you guys are gonna do, literally, one minute, two minutes or like 50 or 100 of each rep.The first three exercises are gonna be here with your feet on here. So your gonna put your hands on here and your feet are on here, these are called pikes. The first exercise, boom! So you have a timer right here, right in front of you, soon as your done with that go into tucks. So you got pikes first then tucks. Then you take one leg out and mimic a mountain-climber. So keep your body flat, then go right to the other side. Soon as your done with that, you’re gonna go and grab this. Put your arms here to extend the arms out, squat jumps. Again: time or reps, whatever you can do, good. Soon as your done with that your gonna do what I call posterior reach. Jump, press down and then reach up as you jump so two of the same kind of exercises. But it’s all core so don’t hyper-extend your back, just jump.
Soon as you’re done with that, face down jumping jacks. So basically you’ll be here, feet and hands together, push up, in. Push up, in. Soon as your done with that, you can do this with tension if you want to. So you could literally have your hands behind you, you should probably want to put it on something low. Let’s just pretend like we don’t even have that. Hands by the ears and give me high knees. Go for time, soon as you’re done with that one you go right over, as fast as you possibly can, (probably should have had this thing already set up and already laid out) and you go right into some jump rope. Super frustrated right now…Okay, get tricky with it, practice it and give me criss-cross or regular jumping rope. So here, you wanna get crazy, you wanna get really crazy…soon as you’re done with that go right back to those pikes.
Hope you liked it. I barely did anything compared to your one, two minute 50 rep, 100 rep, whatever it is. Go around this, get your heart rate elevated, no rest in between. Keep it a cardio workout; Outdoor workout for you, no excuse. You don’t even need, if for some reason you don’t have the jump rope, you don’t have a tube, you don’t need anything. Use your body, use that swing. Outdoor workout for you, go crazy on cardio, have fun.
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Posted by Christian Aguirre on Mon, Mar 26, 2012 @ 12:30 PM
Obviously you guys have seen my car, it’s extremely obvious. So I came to a little local park, I got my little trusty bag with my tubes and some dumbbells. I didn’t feel like packing all the dumbbells so for today’s workout, we are going to do a back and shoulder workout. Technically, I’ll explain to you what I mean by this, but technically I will want you to use heavier dumbbells for one of the exercises but I didn’t feel like lugging everything over; it’s just to get the basic point of the workout. Didn’t want to be interrupted, that’s why I stole my husband’s car, as you can see it didn’t have all of the writing all over it.
So I’ve got my secret stash workout, I write everything down. You get a pen and then get to your workout. Basically what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna start out, it’s gonna be all, and it’s so easy as with all my workouts even though we’re trying to target back and shoulders you’re always gonna target some core. So the first exercise that we’re doing it’s gonna be our lighter dumbbells.
So we’re gonna pretend when I say go to the heavier ones, we’re gonna pretend like we’re using heavier dumbbells for the second exercise. So we’re gonna kind of warm up our shoulders, our back, our obliques, everything and we’re gonna do what I call Around the World with the dumbbells. It’s basically a front raise and then you go all the way around. So the form here; you’re feet are open, nice and tight and you’re gonna go up and then around and then turn the hand and lead. So you lead with the thumb then you turn it and you lead with the thumb again: around the world, around the world.
So today’s numbers and I’m not gonna demonstrate all the numbers, today’s numbers are either gonna be 20 or 50. So with that one you’re gonna do 20 on each side; go boom right from the next to the next. Now you’re gonna switch it out to “Poof! Those are bigger dumbbells!” So you’re gonna switch it out to your heavier ones and you’re gonna do alternating high rows. So you’re hands are here; I want you to think that you’re exposing the armpit. So technically let’s just say this is a regular row, I want you to open up here, so high rows.
So boom! And if you notice I’m getting a little extra momentum from under my other wrist and then high. Do your best to keep your body facedown, so don’t turn, ‘k? ‘Cause we want to get full rear delt, if you turn you take away from that rear delt, so stay facedown. So what do you think? Yeah, it’s gonna be 20 on each arm.
Now, I’ve got my bag of tubes, I have three different tensions and I believe we are going to do the heavy tension. This rep is 50, so I got my trusty little pole right over here. Oh perfection right here! And now you are going to bend over and mimic a lat pull down. So let’s just say if you were in the gym you’d be doing a lat pull down here, pull it right to the front of your chest. I want you to open up your shoulder blades, get your back flat, stick your chest out and give me a lat pull down.
Keep the knees slightly bent and open up and pull down. Do not look up, you want neutral spine so ears right in line with your shoulders, okay; 50 of those. Soon as you’re done doing that you are on Bent Over Rear Delts but I do want you sitting up against the wall so I’m gonna have you sit up against this pole. Knees are bent, dumbbells are gonna go right here and you’re going to give me a rear delt. So boom! You just did 20 of those. Soon as you’re done with that one,(let me get my cheat sheet again) okay so now I’m going to take , and I’m going to go over here on this just because I’m gonna use my knuckles.
You’re gonna take your tube; wrap it around you, underneath you so it doesn’t slam you in your head. I’m gonna go on my knuckles, so I’m gonna grab it here like this, on my knuckles here (kinda hurts), single leg and a little extra tension. So technically I’m losing a little bit of tension here, so I’ll pull it underneath me a little bit more. You get the gist of it, you got 20 of those. Soon as you’re done doing that, now you’re gonna stand on your tube, put it right on the arch of your feet, put your hands behind you, squat down and give me shoulder press.
Guess how many you’re doing of that? 50 of those, here; boom, boom. And I believe your last one, yep, you’re gonna wrap that black tube again (or blue) around the pole, sit in a squat position and you’re gonna do 50 regular rows and then 50 alternating. So here for 50 and then try not to move the hips too much, alternating rows for 50 on each arm. Soon as you’re down with that you go right back down to Around the World.
You want to make anything harder, you can go ahead here and you can put your feet on the bench and you can do your rows here. Boom! You can go on your hands and do the tube in an incline with your feet on there. Around the World, get creative, you can try that one. I haven’t tried it so I’m definitely not gonna try it on camera. But basically you can make this as hard as you want.
If those numbers are easy, or maybe you only have 15 pound dumbbells, then do more, more reps then just 20 and 50. Maybe do 30 and 50 or 30 and a hundred, 40 and a hundred. Work with what you got. If you only have two sets of dumbbells, couple tubes, you can buy this stuff at Wal-Mart, on Amazon where you get a whole bunch of them for cheap and go to the park, go work out outside.
Back and shoulders workout for you, anywhere. Rip up those shoulders and rip up that back so it makes your waist look smaller, the more you’re symmetrical up here. And we did a lot of pulling back and pushing forward but that will keep you like this instead of like this. So I hope you liked it; whole bunch of different stuff, let me know what you think and go work hard.
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Posted by Christian Aguirre on Mon, Mar 19, 2012 @ 12:30 PM
Can you read with me moving? There’s my little rumpshaker and here’s my little shirt from my Lana’s Egg Whites. Love her, love Lana, very local. This is for you local people, she does have a website where you can order it online if you are not local. It’s just a bit of a difference of a price if you are local.
So I actually have them available for all of our clients. If this is something that you are interested in you can contact us on the website, we usually have about twenty on hand; they’re at our house. A client will say, “Hey I need another bucket of egg whites”, and then I bring them to the studio and they come there.
So basically this video is here to show you about how much you can save money and time because I’ve done a lot of videos and those of you that are in my program have received my preparation where back in the day where I made it two years ago, I had a huge pan of like forty egg whites and I said the most tedious part of my Sunday, when I’d cook for the week, was the de-shelling and de-yolking. You don’t have to worry about that. So I’m gonna show you what I do, literally, probably about 2-3 times a day.
It’s perfect because I have to prepare this for tomorrow morning for breakfast. Tomorrow I’m going to a fitness convention so I actually have to bring my breakfast with me. I’m gonna go run at the studio, and then eat my breakfast right after and then go train people. Boom, boom, boom you don’t need to know my day. But I’m gonna show you about how I make my oatmeal.
So basically what I do is (this is how simple it is), I got my ¼ cup and I have, you guys have seen my Sweat My Meal Program, I literally eat all day long. So it’s a ½ of a serving, it’s only 14 grams of carbs. I like to eat small meals; it helps me with my digestion because of my Crohn’s Disease. I even do recommend that some of my clients do and they break it up and eat more than three meals and three snacks.
Break it up and eat more. Your body is constantly burning off calories, that’s why I can eat as much as I do, and partly because my body doesn’t absorb everything because of my Crohn’s. That being said, so basically what we got here is, there’s about 165 egg whites here. What I do is, they come frozen, what I do is every time I’m running about low I take it out and I let it defrost overnight ‘til the next morning and then I take it and put it in the refrigerator. Once it’s open they say it lasts fifty days, mine doesn’t even last fifty days. What I do is, for when I’m making it I put it in a little Tupperware.
So I’ve got my ¼ cup of oatmeal, and then I take a ½ cup of egg whites (which is about 4 egg whites) then a ¼ cup of water and then for flavor a little bit of sweetness because all of those flavored oat meals that you have will add an extra 190 mgs of sodium just by having a plain instant or a flavored instant.
That’s why I just use my little Splenda. I get my spoon and then I mix it up, boom, let’s move this over, put this in the microwave. Now here’s what I do and I teach all my clients, so I set it up for 55 seconds, ‘k. I let it cook, literally, because every morning I take my son to school, I’ll make this. So basically what it’s doing is, it’s kind of halfway cooking and then I’m going to stir it up again.
So what I’ll do is I’ll start it because I’m multi-tasking, I take my son to school in the morning so this is at like 6:15 in the morning , I might run or I might put everything from the refrigerator into my lunch bag and then this is what I’m gonna take with me for the day. Then it’s just about to be done in 5 seconds ( I already threw that other spoon in there) so you’ll kind of see that it’s not all the way done and then I put it back in for probably another forty seconds and it all depends on the heat of your microwave.
Your microwave might be more new than mine is; it might take less time to cook, it might take more time, I don’t know. So basically I’m multi-tasking, I’ll get my son’s lunch box together, or I’ll run it over by the door, or I might throw it in the car. Then I come back and it’ll pretty much be done and then you’ll see how it’s gonna look when it’s done in 15 seconds.
I kind of glance to see if it’s about to explode, so it’s not about to explode; it’s almost, it’s there. And then this is literally what I’ll eat, in the morning for breakfast at 6:15, if you’ve seen my Sweat My Meal Plan, it’s on one of my other channels. So its still even got a little bit right there, so I would throw it in for…I mean, I like mine really pasty, this is fine. I’m not gonna throw it back, this is fine for me. This is perfect because I’m gonna need this for tomorrow morning.
But I’ll make this for my 6:15 and then I’ll eat it again for my 10 o’clock snack and then if I wanted to, it depends on how intense my day is; if it’s a video day and I’m going to be working out more than I usually do ‘cause we’ll probably do like today we’re gonna do another hour or so of videos for my virtual coaching programs, for Training with Jenn, for Coaching with Jenn, and then some You Tube stuff for you guys or for anybody that’s on You Tube. But, so I might eat another one of these.
So love this; super, super convenient. You can also not even mix it with oatmeal, if you just want egg whites like late at night and you don’t want to have carbs. Why? Because you don’t want to eat sugar that’s gonna convert to fat. Think of carbs as its energy so that’s what you use it as, you don’t need carbs at night, but you do need protein. So if you want to make yourself some egg whites, you can make it on the pan, or you can put it on a plate and put it right in the microwave and it cooks the same. So I mean you can make it literally either way.
So I hope you guys liked this, stay hard, get hard, whatever the heck that says. What does that say? Get hard, stay hard with Lana’s Egg Whites. There’s the website if you’re not local and you wanna go buy yourself some. And if you don’t and you want to come to moi, you just let us know or you can call the business, whatever. So I hope you guys liked this, go get it, super convenient, super cheap.
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