I realize that I’ve been writing a lot about the cellulite diet lately, so I wanted to switch gears and write a little about my cellulite exercise routine.

I wake up between 4:30-5am every weekday. This allows me some alone time sans husband and child to work on my blog, read personal emails and drink my java.  To read my comment on an interesting post about drinking coffee before a workout see: http://www.self.com/fooddiet/blogs/healthybites/2009/03/do-you-drink-java-before-a-run.html#postcommenthead

I workout about 20 minutes most mornings and do a long workout of 1 hour on either Saturday or Sunday. I’ve been doing mostly aerobic exercise and I  must admit that since my treadmill broke a few weeks ago, I’ve been a little lost. It’s $800 to fix it, so I might as well buy a new one, but since money is tight these days due to some job turmoil, I’ve been putting it off. I’m scared to walk outside because there’s bears in my neighborhood, but even worse,  someone spotted a mountain lion in my neighborhood, so if I was only a little freaked out by the bears, I’m now totally freaked out by the mountain lion.

I’ve been using my stationary bike and little plastic step, but it’s really not the same for me. Walking clears my head in a way that stepping and cycling don’t. For me, stepping requires too much coordination (hence, too much thinking) and the bike is too uncomfortable. But, I digress…

So, I’ve been doing aerobic exercise consistently and sprinkling in weight training when I feel like it, so I’m feeling like I definitely need more of a plan when it comes to the weight training.

According to the latest book I’m reading,  Beyond Cellulite: Nicole Ronsard’s Ultimate Strategy to Slim, Firm and Reshape Your Lower Body, one should perform weight training 4-5 days per week and aerobic exercise 3-5 days per week for cellulite treatment.

I’m wondering how I’m going to fit this all in and I guess my thinking is, “If I can do 20 minutes every morning, then I can do 30 minutes every morning.” I’ll just need to get down to the basement (where my workout equipment is) 10 minutes earlier. So instead of beginning my workout at 5:40am, I’ll begin at 5:30am. Boy, that sounds early. I’ll devote 10 minutes to weight training – and 20 minutes to an interval aerobics workout. I’ll still do 1 hour of aerobics on the weekend. Sounds like a plan.

For weight training on the legs and butt, I’ll do lunges, squats, hip thrusts, pliés, wall squats, deadlifts and leg lifts. Sounds pretty aggressive in 10 minutes. On non-leg days, I’ll do abs, back and chest. (I don’t do arms – I figure I’ll get enough of an arm workout from the back and chest exercises.)

Given the sheer volume of leg exercises that I want to do, I’ll need to split them up. Maybe standing exercises on day one and floor exercises on day two.  Sounds reasonable. So it looks like this assuming 10 minutes for weight training and 20 minutes for aerobics:

• Monday: Standing leg exercises & interval aerobics
• Tuesday: Abs, chest & back & interval aerobics 
• Wednesday or Thursday: Rest
• Wednesday or Thursday: Floor leg exercises & interval aerobics
• Friday: Abs, chest & back & interval aerobics
• Saturday or Sunday: 1 hour of aerobics
• Saturday or Sunday: Standing leg exercise & interval aerobics

Wow, this seems like a lot more than what I’m doing now. I’ll give it a try this coming week and see how it goes.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions. I would love to hear some feedback.

Thanks for reading!