I’m proud to announce that I got to teach my first Group X Spin/Cycle Class today! An instructor at my job was sick and was unable to come in this morning so I was the lucky person chosen to fill in at our 6 A.M. class. I wasn’t nervous but, I won’t lie, I freaked out a little when we weren’t able to find any music because everyone who takes spin classes knows the music is an important factor. Fortunately one of the members had an old-school CD in his car and we used that. So I was able to make it work and class turned out great! Not having the music reminded me of how another style of working out got started…

Anyway, this month’s challenge is push-ups just in case you weren’t around earlier or had forgotten. A few weeks ago we talked about my favorite chest workouts which included push-ups. Check out that article along with the post earlier this week to get some suggestions on different push-ups you can do for the challenge. Today we’re going to talk about a few of my favorite triceps workouts that help sculpt the back of your arms. The triceps are a troubled area for most women so these exercises will be very useful. Continue reading →