Summer & Tabata!

OK, so it's not summer yet but I feel it coming....



The best part about living in our neighborhood!

They officially filled our pool with water!  There's actually a few pools - baby pool, lap pool, diving pool, and kid pool!  We absolutely love riding our bikes on Saturday mornings to the pool, spending the day reading our Kindles, and our biggest "worry" of the day is where we're going to eat dinner!  Ahh, what a life!  We dream about it all year long!

However, since summer is right around the corner, I've been feeling extra motivated in the work-out department!  Although I'm still following ToneItUp and the TIU Bikini Challenge, I've been trying to create my own workout plan for the week.  I've found lots of great workouts on http://www.toneitup.com/ and http://www.jillfit.com/ - check them out!  Jill Coleman (aka @JillFit on Twitter) was my inspiration behind this morning's Tabata workout:  

Keep water close, you will be sweatin'!

So what that means is you do burpee + push-up at the bottom as fast as you can for 20 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds (feels like nothing!), and repeat 8 times until moving to the next workout, which is squat + bicep curl. 

As much as these Tabata workouts kick your butt, it feels amazing when you are finished; your heart will be pumping and you will be sweaty, I promise!  I've only completed two Tabata workouts this week and I'm already feeling stronger and more toned!  Thanks @JillFit for the motivation and I hope you try it too! :)