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Your Weekly Workout with Sarah and Rachel- Week 4

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Sarah Medland Student Contributor, St. Ambrose University
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Mary Madormo Student Contributor, St. Ambrose University
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at SAU chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus.

All right, collegiettes™ – February is the month of arms. We’ll start showing our arms now that the weather is warming up, so get to working on them! Make sure you stretch, warm up, and cool down each day! We’ll work into the arms slowly, so get ready for next week!
 
Day 1
15 minute cardio warm up
Squat 3×10
Assisted Pull Up 3×15
Lunges 3×8 each leg
Squat down and do 3×15 of plate raises
15 fire hydrants on each leg
15 minute cardio

Day 2
Run/walk 25-30 minutes on treadmill
Cool down/stretch

Day 3
Bench Press 3×10
Triceps Extension 3×10 (do each arm separately so you will have to use a lighter dumbbell)
DB Chest press on exercise ball 3×10
Push Ups 3×10
Core circuit: 
            35 second plank
            25 second plank each side
            30 crunches
            30 toe touches
            30 russian twists
            30 windshield wipers
                       35 second plank
                       25 second plank each side
cool down/stretch

Day 4
25-30 minute run/walk
cool down/stretch

Day 5
Warm up stretch
5 minute cardio workout
1minute of jumping jacks
30 seconds of lunges
30 seconds of push ups
1minute of jumping jacks
30seconds of squats
30seconds of pull up/ assisted pull ups
1minute of jumping jacks
30 second wall sit
30 second tricep dips
1 minute of jumping jacks
30 second plank
30 second russian twists
(8 minutes total)
cool down/stretch

Mary is a senior at St. Ambrose University majoring in English and journalism. She is originally from Naperville, IL and hopes to one day be back in Chicago. In the past Mary has interned for Sourcebooks, a publishing company in Naperville, and this past year she studied abroad in London and interned at Parliament. She hopes to one day be an editor in publishing at a magazine or at a publishing group like Penguin. Besides being the founding editor of Her Campus St. Ambrose, Mary is also a writing tutor at St. Ambrose. In her free time, she loves to travel, hang out with family and friends, and shop a little bit too much at Gap and J. Crew!