Home Gym: How to Workout Using Your Pinterest Pins

As I scan through all the Pinterest boards...over and over I see a fitness tab...filled with 100's of AWESOME workout ideas...

But I can't help but feel like everyone clicks them, pins them, reads through them...and they collect dust in the back of their Pinterest closet like all their workout videos, dumbbells, and clothes drying treadmill...

Am I right?!

Well, let's pull some of those workout tips out and make a week's worth of workouts out of them. Because they are valuable and can serve a real purpose, its just hard to know what to do---when---and how often.

First, let's determine how often?
4 days a week, ok...CHECK.

How much time do you truly have to dedicate to these 4-days of workouts?
30 minutes?...ok. CHECK.

What are your goals?
Toning your arms for summer?...ok. CHECK.
Decreasing fat overall? ...ok. CHECK.
And improving endurance? ...ok. CHECK.

Here's how a trainer would typically approach a program.
1) Work all muscle groups over the span of a week. Add extra emphasis on areas of trouble. So if you are wanting upper body toning...make that 2 days of your 4 workouts.

2) Work antagonist muscles. So for every pulling type exercise (pull ups, banded rows, deadlift)...do a push movement. (push ups, chest press, squats)

3) Incorporate cardio into your strength sessions. So to get 30 solid minutes of exercise in...add 1 day of high intensity exercise, 1 day of longer slower cardio, and one day of heavy strength, and one day of all cardio.

4) Add warm-up and cool down to your 30 minute list. So make sure to stretch, foam roll, mash soreness...and warm-up muscles according to what areas you are working. As well as cool them down slowly when finished.

5) Make sure your nutrition matches your energy output. You can't out-exercise a bad diet. SO DON"T sabotage your 4-days of workout efforts. Figure out your macros beforehand and work to stick to them. Allowing 1 day of cheats a week.

Here's my example of a great 4-day weekly workout routine using all Pinterest pins...
Monday--> https://www.pinterest.com/pin/302585668694483203/ (great shoulder warm-up)

Upper body workout 1-https://www.pinterest.com/pin/302585668694427178/
Complete 3x8-10 reps per exercise....push weights to failure for maximum effectiveness.
- Finally: A way to target your awkward armpit area.: