BC's Pretend Gym, Sexy Abs Tip, & Elliptical Fun !!!

So let me tell you about my schools pretend gym ! I go to Brooklyn College and I decided to get a little workout during my break between classes. I'm paying for it in my tuition so I might as well ! And I'm getting myself in that pool soon too lol. But they barely have anything in there ! A few treadmills, ellipticals, bikes, stair masters, and a few machines for different body parts. I'd never go in there looking to get a full back workout, or a good leg workout, but it is good for doing cardio and calisthenics which is what I did today. Just FYI, calisthenics are exercises that are done using your own body weight and little or no extra weights like dumbbells. Calisthenics include exercises like push-ups, pull-ups, dips, abs exercises, bicycles, squats, mountain climbers, burpees, etc. Seeing as I'm still recovering from my awesome leg workout Friday, I went light today. I jogged 15 mins on the treadmill for about a mile and a half. Then I did some dips and push-ups, followed by 400 abs.

Tips to getting sexy abs: break up your sets. Meaning, do 300 when you wake up, 300 before you eat lunch, at the gym, or in the middle of your day, then do another 300 before you eat dinner or before you get in the bed. BAM! You just did 900 for the day ! If you did this for at least 2 weeks straight (coupled with a good diet, remember abs are made in the kitchen and shaped in the gym) you are guaranteed to see improvement ! There's no need to kill yourself and try to do 1000 abs in one sitting. That's why you always see that I do 300 to 500 abs at a time, because I've already done some in my morning routine, and I will also do some later before bed. Try it ! It works ;)

I've always been the biggest critic of the elliptical. I uses to say that it was for old ladies and it looks like your barely getting a workout because its just not running. I literally never in my life been on an elliptical because of my preconception. But today marks the first day ever and it's more intense than I imagined. As mentioned earlier I am still recovering from my legs workout so I wanted to cool down with something easy and low resistance. The elliptical was anything but that ! 3 mins after I began I was feeling the burn and sweating ! I was going pretty fast with a resistance of 15. I really liked it ! I liked it so much that instead of staying on for 10 mins, I stayed on for 25 !! I was in the zone going to the fast pace beat of my song "Trinidadian" by Kes. I will do more research on ellipticals when I get home but from what I experienced today, I feel like its a great cardio workout for people with knee injuries because its very low impact, much less impact than running on a treadmill. I also feel like it mainly targeted my quads but I could be wrong. I'm going to research and post about my findings because now I'm interested !  I will from now incorporate that into my workouts and I want all of you to get on the ellipticals too ! They are awesome !!!

my elliptical workout that was supposed to only be ten minites lol. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT !!!

After I left the gym I ate my homemade whole wheat bagel with butter and I drank Gatorade. I was so hungry that I inhaled it in 2 seconds so I don't have a picture of its beauty lol but you get the picture. Well that's all for now. Wishing you all beautiful abs in the near future. Namaste.