When I went into the weight room after my cardio time, I spotted the whiteboard at my gym and instantly felt inspired!
My gym updates a small whiteboard with functional training workouts once a week and I used today’s workout to get me started.
In the end I changed things up a bit and completed the following workout two times through:
I never heard of “Running Lunges” before and followed the instructions on the whiteboard when it came to tackling that particular exercise.
It basically said to hold yourself in a lunge position and work your arms with dumbbells in hand like you are running. It was kind of funky, but I felt my whole body working. My legs burned and I felt my core working to stabilize my body as I quickly moved my arms.
Gosh, it felt goo to get back in the gym and sweat it out!
Breakfast
After days and days of eggs for breakfast, overnight oats were welcomed back with open arms.
I made a batch of the oats last night and topped them with a sliced banana and three sliced strawberries this morning.
My beverage of choice was a special treat!
After trying and loving Tea Forte teas with Ryan’s family over Easter, my mother-in-law and her boyfriend remembered my love for their fragrant tea and sent me two different kinds of the tea for my birthday along with a beautiful tea pot, cup and saucer.
I had a hot cup of the white ginger pear tea this morning and felt rejuvenated. It smells heavenly and tastes light and refreshing. I think it would be great iced as well!
Time to get this day started! Hope your week is off to a good start!
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That’s really nice that your gym has workouts up! I wish mine did. Sometimes having someone’s plan or someone to tell you what to do will motivate me even more than when I’m on my own feeling blah about working out. This looks like a good workout!
That tea sounds amazing. I had never heard of the company before you mentioned it. My gym does the same thing, everyday there is a new workout on the white board 🙂 It’s great when I go with no plan. It saves me from just pacing around for an hour!
White ginger pear sounds delicious – fruity teas are so much more flavorful than standard Green or Earl grey!
I wish my gym put workout ideas up! That’s really cool! Have a great day, Julie.
That tea sounds delicious! It would be a good iced-tea, too.
Running lunges can be intense! The p90x core x video has you do them. They work you everywhere! Love that burn
I was wondering what a running lunge was when I first read that. That makes more sense than trying to run doing lunges 🙂 I’ll give them a try today!
I straight up LOVE that tea, clearly you married into a smart family with great tea taste.
Kinda wishing that my gym would post some gym-spiration now and then to jump start the workouts.
I’ve never heard of running lunges – cool! Sounds like a good workout. And those bananas and strawberries on top of your oats look AMAZING!!!
What a thoughtful gift! That tea sounds delicious! 🙂
Did you do 25 straight leg pushups? I have to switch to “girly” pushups after about 10 real ones.
nope! i did all of them on my knees. 🙂
That workout looks awesome – I’m going to have to try it this week! I’ve never heard of running lunges, either, but now that you explain what they are, I can totally see how they would work everything (especially the core!)
How much oatmeal do you typically eat when you decide to eat oatmeal for breakfast?
Your breakfast looks delicious!
I’ll have to try the workout.
I have never heard of running lunges before those sound hard!
It’s always so nice to get back to eating normally and working out after a weekend of over-indulgence!! I had a similar tough time at the gym last night getting motivated, but once I got going, it wasn’t bad!
I’ll BET the ginger peach iced is delightful! 🙂
That tea sounds wonderful! Perfect for spring 🙂
Yum that tea sounds delicious — but I picture drinking it iced in the summer afternoon! It’s rainy and cold here so I had to have a big cup of coffee to start the day 🙂
I love doing new exercises like that! SOunds like a good one 🙂 Holding a lunge and doing any upper body work is tough, that’s for sure!
So cool that your gym has that! I just ordered Physique 57 and cannot wait for it to arrive so I can start kicking my butt with it!
white ginger pear tea sounds amazing!!! yum!
I love the idea of whiteboard workouts. What a great way to break up routine boredom! I might give this one a try.
Thats a really good workout! I do something similar to that a lot. I tried overnight oats for the first time today. Love!
White ginger pear tea sounds really good! And I love the cup!
Do you use a stop watch when doing Circuit Workouts like this?
awesome workout! never done or heard of running lunges either will definitely have to try them!
the first workout after a few days off is one of the hardest, but it’s always the most satisfying!! Love your treadmill workouts, so I will definitely give your circuit workout a try!
Thank you so much for posting about overnight oats in your recipe section! I have never had overnight oats, and I am excited to try them!
Have you ever had oats in a jar? If so, have you found a combination that makes a good consistency? Thanks Julie!
I love that tea cup! What a sweet birthday present!
I think your family knows what you like– coffee from your mom and tea from Ryans! I’ve never heard of tea forte but that sounds delicious and packaging is way too cute!
I have wanted to try that brand of tea many many times, but haven’t yet. What a great birthday gift! Do you have a favorite flavor yet? Way to get back into the “swing of things” — it can be easy to put off after vacation!
I love Tea Forte, it makes having a cup of tea seem like something really special 🙂 What a great gift!
What a cool idea for the gym to have some functional training up! Like Pinterest, but without the risk of getting too caught up in it to actually do the workout (that never happens…). 🙂
I love tea forte! I haven’t tried the white ginger pear but it sounds lovely!
those overnight oats look delicious!
Yum the tea looks great. I actually just bought a pear tea from Teavana!
Your gym’s whiteboard is awesome! Wish mine did something like that – it’d be really motivational.
just finished two sets of the circuit, sweat dripping as I type. running lunges = ouch in the abs!!