Do a total of 5 Fit2B videos of any length or difficulty and consider including the featured routine which will help you with this week’s theme: Chest!
Our chests can be a sensitive area. Not only are your pectoral muscles the platform for all the pushing motions you do with your arms, the “pecs” reside under mammary breast tissue and over our hearts and lungs. Women with tighter chest muscles are at higher risk for heart attacks. We need this area to be strong for us on so many levels – breathing, circulation, pushing carts, cradling precious loads – so this week’s workout focuses on the chest, and so do the parallel routines!
Feature Routine: Purple Press
Load your bones AND mind (without turning purple) in this weightlifting workout that will press your upper body muscles into better shape! By the way, a special guest wanders on stage for some belly rubs at the end 😉
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Equipment needed: dumbbells or canned goods + kettlebell or something with a handle.
Parallel Workouts:
Here are a few more Fit2B workouts that include wonderful work for your chest. As always, remember that these parallel workouts are merely suggestions, not obligations. You are successfully “completing your challenge” of doing a year of weekly workouts if you do the featured routine each week. Let that be enough, but you can do more if you wish.
Heart & Hamstrings
Push-Up Prep
Weightlifting 101
Ballistic Bells
Sage Stretching
Red Rush Cardio
Moving thought: Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, killing 299,578 women in 2017—or causing about 1 in every 5 female deaths, according to the CDC. Smoking, physical inactivity, and diabetes are the most commonly listed risk factors for heart disease. However, women who exercise, don’t smoke, and don’t have diabetes may have these lesser known risk factors: Breath holding patterns during stress, Loss of estrogen during peri/menopause, Chronically tight chest muscles, Core dysfunction (i.e. Diastasis Recti), and a Cynical mindset. Read the research and learn more about you can protect your chest health in simple, everyday ways here.
Quote Of The Week:
“Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life.”
–Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
- Make the featured routine ONE of the workouts or videos that you choose this week, even if you only do part of it.
- Reach out if you need suggestions for different workouts to round out your week. We are here for you!
- Join the conversation or start it below in the comments! Check out what others have done, share ideas, offer encouragement, or get encouragement from those who’ve done this week before you!
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Share what you think of the featured routine.
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Share what workouts you’re doing and how they felt to your mind and body.
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Respond with your thoughts on the “Word/Phrase of The Week.”
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Ask for help with anything: workout ideas, mindset, motivation, alternates for the featured routine, anything!
See you in the workouts,