workout

Let’s be honest here: at 40 weeks and now 5 days pregnant, my workouts have mostly consisted of all exercises that help get this labor started. I have been walking, running, squatting, lunging and bouncing on an exercise ball. In fact, I have been running about every other day and somehow at a sub 10-minute mile pace. After each workout I say to myself, “If that doesn’t kickstart labor, I don’t know what will,” and then nothing happens.

Writing (and completing) this workout on Monday was a breath of fresh air and forced me to do some upper-body. (Hello, push-ups… and yes, I can still do some on my toes!) I am usually all-about upper body, but lower body exercises seem to be more labor-inducing lately- it was nice to take my mind off of that for a while.

Set your timer for 15- minutes and see how many rounds of this workout you can get done. This is a good workout to come back to as well, trying to improve the number of rounds each time.

What is your goal for this workout?
Let us know how you did!

I tried a new workout format and wow, I like this! My class members will be seeing this in some our classes soon. Thanks to the cross fit world, I tried out an EMOM workout: Every Minute on the Minute. You can read more information about this kind of workout here and here.

In the crossfit world, they are doing these exercises with weight and only 1-5 reps at a time and of course with heavy weight. I can’t wait to get back to lifting more so I can do this format with some dead lifts, thrusters and pull-ups. I think my hubby will also enjoy some EMOM workouts now that after all these years he allows me to “suggest” workouts for him.

So here is my quick at-home EMOM using body weight (and maybe a few more reps than the crossfit world). I thought it would be tough and man I was right- give it a whirl yourself!