The purpose of this blog is to showcase the workouts for each week that our small fitness group will be completing. Some people cannot come on the same day as others so this blog will be a good way to keep up with accountability. Once you complete the workout, post a comment with your stats. Stats can include whatever you are comfortable posting (this is an open blog). Some suggestions would be weight amounts, number of reps, if the workout was for 'time,' you can list that. Hopefully this will keep everyone motivated to do the workout at some point even if it's not the same day as someone else in the group. I really want the focus to be on motivation for better health.

My sweet husband will be writing the workouts in a simple format. Each week, he will write 3 gym workouts (requires weights, machines or a pool) and 3 home workouts (using body weight, stretchy bands or balance ball). He will give a suggested weight based on what he thinks I can do. You, of course, may choose to go a bit lighter or heavier at first, but the idea is that you will keep a journal so that you can increase weights, reps and such over time. I cannot stress enough to listen to your own body. Do not try to take on more than you are ready for and get injured. My husband is not a doctor and therefore cannot take responsibility for your health. I will post each workout separately so that you can comment for that particular workout after completing it. The gym workouts will be labeled by week and workout 1, 2 and 3. The home workouts will be labeled by week and smurkout 1, 2 and 3.

Because my husband and I have also taken on the challenge of eating a more paleo meal plan, I might also post recipes from time to time that we found to be both healthy and tasty!

So without further ado... welcome to our group! I have chosen the name Sonya's Workout Smurkout World because it's easy to remember the name and the web address. We can even call it SW² for short. lol

I will be at the gym this week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday at 9:30 a.m. Those who can join me, come on! Those who cannot, please do the workouts anyway and post your stats so we know who to encourage!