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A Full Week of Workouts - Marathon Training and Lifting Heavy?

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Hello again! I am excited to share with you a full week of my workouts! We've got heavy compound exercises, lighter accessory work, and even some cardio ;) This week is the beginning of my 2-week "mini" cut, so I have included some HIIT on my upper body days! I previously shared my workout split , and this is similar to it but with a few tweaks. This is primarily because of wanting to shape my arms for an upcoming banquet. I will touch on this later, but I am making sure I don't overtrain my upper body; I could actually damage the muscle, causing muscle loss or even an injury. Okay here is my week of workouts, featuring marathon training, lifting heavy, and even some HIIT. I am going to show you my workouts from Sunday to Sunday, so let's go! Sunday: Long Run!! I was gone all of Saturday, so I moved my long run to Sunday! It was so beautiful and sunny out, I even got a tan ;) This is the farthest I have ran in my marathon training (and actually ever!!). My...

2018 Update, Workout Split, and Marathon Training?!?!!?

Happy New Year everyone!! I know it has been so so long since I last posted- but I am changing all of that!! I have been sporadically posting since 2012, but now I am making a commitment to be active on this blog:))) I am seriously thinking about expanding this to other social media, and really growing this blog/idea/brand/whatever you want to call it. I will keep you guys updated on that as things start coming together;)  I have a lot of goals for this year, and being on this blog is one of them!! I am so excited to see what happens! Anyways, about that crazy, even scary, word in the title of this post. Marathon. Some shudder, some are amazed, some are excited, and some people go into hiding when they hear this word. And yes it's true, I am training for a marathon. How cool is that?!?! Some of you know I ran a half marathon in August of 2016. I was planning to run a full marathon, and exhilarating 26.2 miles, in 2017, but I wanted to focus on building muscle after an...