TEAM GREEN: Sail to 16 for September!

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New group! Pushing to lose 16 lbs in September! This is not going to be a closed group, so go ahead and join!

This month's emphasis will be on cardio and strength. I encourage you to have a 5 or 10lb dumbbell set, but everything can be done with body weight resistance.

Cardio: 30 minutes per day: walk, jog, take the stairs!
Strength: Every other day*, approx. 15-30 minutes: Lunges (3 sets x 15 reps), Squats (3 sets x 10 reps), Pushups (10 pushups, increase by 5 each week), Situps (20 pushups, increase by 10 each week)

Easy-ish workouts that don't take a lot of time! I recommend doing strength prior to cardio on those days, because strength training jumpstarts your metabolism and keeps it zooming for hours after your workout, so your cardio workout becomes that much more effective!

*Strength workouts are every other day so your muscles get a chance to rest. Remember, strength training tears your muscles, allowing them to patch themselves back up stronger and harder. If you wish do it every day, create a routine that works different muscles from the ones that I laid out.