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A late post from last week, but here's the run-down:  Monday I decided to startup Kayla Itsines' Bikini Body Guide (BBG) again on week 17. I'm redoing the initial guide I have and I'm on week 5. I forgot how intense the workout are! I was definitely sore the next day and a little bit still the day after. I don't exactly follow the guides (and maybe that's why I'm not seeing a bunch of progress) but I like to do one round of her BBG workouts and then the other half (14 minutes) of just other workouts. I've never really enjoyed a lot of repetition in my workouts; I like to mix things up. So I did one round of the BBG workouts and then I followed it with various leg/glutes exercises.  Tuesday Since I was so sore the next day, I did just some simple leg stretch exercises. I did a 20 minute Gentle Yoga Stretches with Yoga by Candace. I then did a 10 minute Developing Lotus Flexibility to help with Yoga Sitting Positions. I was also invited to become a ...

I enjoy doing my workouts in the morning. It starts my day off right, and makes me already feel productive. Yesterday it snowed and I ran a little late to work, so I was only able to do about 30 reps of arm workouts (did 5 bars on the arm machines, which I believe is just 12 lbs?). Today's workout was a quick approximate 35 minutes of my morning: 50 crunches  25 side-to-side crunches  10 sit ups 50 donkey kicks, fire hydrants, rainbows with ankle weights  25 lying leg lifts with ankle weights  25 side lunge with lift ankle weights  25 squats with 8lb dumbells over head lifts  10 good morning dumbell deadlifts with leg raise and dumbells  25 flies with 5 lb dumbells 25 bridges with 8lb dumbell  25 bridges per leg up with 8lb dumbells 15 downward dog push-ups  I then stretched it all out with this yoga routine, " Yoga du matin"  by Doctissimo . It's in French, but all you really have to do is follow the movements ...