Hannah Lynn Fitness

Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all have something fun planned with your families :) Today has been so relaxing, and it's my rest day because yesterday, I ran 21 miles!! That's the farthest I have ran so far, and boy are my feet sore. I earned some new blisters from that run, but it was definitely all worth it! Since I can't actually workout today, why not talk about it! I have been wanting to share with you a new type of workout I have been incorporating into my workout split the past couple months- functional training. This has been becoming more popular, but is usually done wrong, or at least isn't actually helpful. Basically, functional training is a type of workout designed to strengthen your body for everyday things. So sitting down, picking up babies, pushing a lawnmower, and pulling open the refrigerator door translates to: squats, deadlifts, bench press, and bent over rows. There are so many more exercises, but do you see how those are helpful for everyda...

Hello again! I have been sharing with you some of my own workouts, along with some recipes, but I want to actually take you through a full day of what I eat! I will be sharing those through out the next four weeks especially, as I am going through two different phases of caloric intake! I am going to give bulking another try ! But only for a short period of 2 weeks, so I would not count this as a full on "bulk" per se, but my calories will be slightly increased to help my efforts to put on some muscle! The reason it is so short, is because my school is having a banquet in about four weeks, and I don't want to be carrying any extra fluff! There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a little extra body fat, especially especially when trying to bulk and gain muscle, but me personally I want to look my best on this special night! I also want to see how my body responds to bulking for two weeks, then cutting for two weeks. I have read about some men doing what they call...

Happy January 8th!! So first of all I want to clarify that there is nothing wrong with planning to "bulk," however I did basically fail at it. Bulking can be a great success, if you do it right; however I did not execute this well. I spent a lot, and I mean hours, of researching how to bulk and reading articles and watching videos, and yet I still messed up. There is one main reason for this: I ATE TOO MUCH. I calculated the following (for my body and goals) on a myriad of different websites using different calculators: TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure- how many calories you burn in a day, including exercise)  BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate - how many calories you burn at rest in a day, as if you were to lay in bed all day) Body Fat Percentage (how much of your weight is made up of fat) How many calories I would need to intake to lose weight (calorie deficit, under your TDEE), gain weight (calorie surplus, over your TDEE), and also maintain weight (right at your TDE...

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...