Want a Good Arm Workout? Carve 6 Pumpkins!

Pumpkin carving is a pretty serious thing, in case you didn't know - just check out the picture. Lol (That's my fiance's son and I)

I have spent the last 2 days gutting and carving pumpkins and it's been a great workout for my arms. See? Workouts don't have to be traditional all the time. I was actually starting to sweat and was amazed at how much you actually use your arms and shoulders while carving pumpkins. And...it should be noted that I didn't use a regular knife. We do have a pumpkin carving knife thing, but I don't know that it's actually all that much easier or more convenient to use!

If you're interested and haven't carved any pumpkins yet, you still have about a day left! Carve between 3-5 pumpkins and you'll really start to feel it towards the end!

Happy Halloween everyone!

Arm Workout + New Back Photo

As promised, I took a picture of my back this morning and it's definitely starting to look smaller and more toned, which is exactly what I was hoping for so I'm pretty happy about that!

I can also see a bit more bulge in the bicep area so my arm workouts must be working alright.

Here is my most recent arm workout:

• Preacher Curls: 20# 3 sets x 20 reps
• Hammer Curls: 15# 3 sets x 10 reps
• Tricep Pushdowns: 35# 3 sets x 6 reps

All I worked out was arms and I actually worked up a pretty good sweat. I probably rested no more than one minute between each set.

My Thursday arm workout

I can actually feel a little soreness today after working out my arms yesterday. I haven't experienced that with my arms for quite awhile!

Here's my workout:

Tricep Pushdowns: 30# 3 sets x 10 reps ( I could not build up weight for this exercise...way too hard. LOL)

Then I did EZ Bar Curls/Hammer Curls Supersets

EZ Bar Curls: 30# 1 set x 10 reps, 2 sets x 8 reps

Hammer Curls: 15# 1 set x 10 reps, 2 sets x 8 reps

Incline Curls: 10# 2 sets x 8, 1 set x 6, 15# 1 set x 2 reps...that was pretty tough!