Happy Sunday, my friends! While Sasha and Mario ride their bikes, I’m home prepping for the week and sharing some of my favorite shoulder exercises with you!
I Was Just In The Mood
This morning, I had the itch to work out, even though I just told you that I don’t exercise on weekends in my last post. My sweet husband came home and reminded me of that- Thank you, my love. After Sasha and I had our breakfast, I thought it would be great for us to go downstairs and move a little. She has a bar down there for gymnastics, which is excellent for her upper body strength. Downstairs is also where her art stuff is as well as her other things to keep busy. While I run and workout, she stays creative and active, bouncing back and forth between her things.
Hellacious Hills!
I don’t know about you, but running hills or inclines is total HELL for me. As soon as I start to put my incline up, my heart starts pounding, and my legs want to quit. I can sprint hard and fast as long as there is NO incline or hill, but oof! Once I start running uphill, it gets me every time! The good part about these incline runs is that you can recover at zero inclines after a certain period. I have to remind myself why I am doing these crazy ass runs. My goal is to get my legs faster, leaner, and stronger, not to mention that it’s beyond challenging for me.
Here is Today’s Run
I didn’t put it on the image, but remember, unless I state otherwise, You will work for 60 seconds or in this run, 60, 45, 30 seconds. That is the hard part. You will immediately recover after each hard part for 1 minute.
For example:
**60 seconds @ 6.0 0% incline and then recover for 1 minute at 3.6
My Favorite Shoulder Exercises
Guys aren’t the only ones who can show off those strong shoulders! I love having strong shoulders and a strong upper body. My strong shoulders allow me to lift whatever I want when I want! Trust me, I have furniture that weighs well over three hundred pounds, and if I want to rearrange it, I can do so without asking for help.
Anything you do in the gym as far as upper body exercises, to some extent, involves your shoulders. If you want to have better posture, make sure you also work those shoulders. Look at any woman who religiously workout, and you will notice that she is standing tall, abs pulled in, and shoulders rolled back.
Here are my favorite Shoulder exercises
There are many exercises you can choose. I seem to toss these specific moves in my shoulder workouts. Since COVID, I don’t do one or two body parts each workout. I’ve been doing total body workouts these days, as you have heard me say. I get so much more out of my workouts when I hit every body part.
You’ll do each move back to back. Once you’ve finished the circuit, you can take sixty seconds for some water, and then you’ll repeat the set for a total of three sets. You will do each move 12-15 reps.
- Band Pull-apart
- Halo’s
- Y-Handcuffs
- Static Side Laterals
