Today is leg day.
I am experimenting with carb cycling this week and today is my high carb day. I am incorporating more calories from complex carbs such as oatmeal, sweet potato and brown rice. High carb days should complement intense training days. I will discuss more about carb cycling in a post later this week.
To motivate myself to kick some butt today in my training....
Exhibit A - The new Ms. Bikini Olympia, Nathalia Melo. I am so encouraged that women like Nathalia and Justine are being rewarded for their round glutes and tight and developed legs.
The decision I made to incorporate running into my cardio program will hopefully assist me in leaning out my legs more. I ultimately want to preserve my current muscle mass while continuing to build up my glutes but slim my legs for a more conditioned look. This means I need to run alot and lift heavy on my glute exercises to counteract the running. Running will flatten your glutes. Another way you can still activate your glutes while running is to do hills and interval training.
I love the overall conditioning of Erin Stern's legs.
Today's workout consists of marathon training with a 5 mile easy pace run (slightly slower than my race pace) and my weight training is focusing on quads and glutes. It is best to do leg day after a day of rest when you are fully recovered. My glute/leg days are on Monday and Friday. I use Sunday as an off day and will begin incorporating yoga as an active rest and Thursdays are a rest day on my running program, so I can attack Monday and Friday leg days well rested.
Eat clean, train hard, get lean!
Happy Monday. Hope you have an excellent start to an even more excellent week.
-Whittney C.
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