I’m trying to continue to try and complete a new challenge on Apple fitness every month. This will be my third after completing the 30 day Core Challenge in January and February and the 14 day HIIT and Strength Challenge in March. I wanted to start this month’s challenge early so I began today, on the second day of the month.

This time I’m doing the 4-Week Cardio Boost with HIIT. This doesn’t mean I have to do a HIIT workout everyday, it is only three days a week. Most of them are just 10 minutes and some are 20 minutes.

Being shorter videos than the 30 minute long HIIT videos I usually do once a week does not mean it will be easy. Just this morning, as I started the challenge, the 10 minute video was challenging. It only included two moves, jumping jacks and lateral jumps, done in intervals starting at 40 seconds. By the second or third time you do those moves you already know what to do and every time you do it faster and with more intensity. At the end of those 10 minutes I had already burned 53 calories.

The second workout I did to complete 30 minutes of exercise this morning was a 20 minute Core Video. This may sound easy but it’s not with moves like beast, side-plank and crunches done more than once.

I’m excited to see how it goes doing three HIIT workouts a week plus my usual other workouts. The challenge I did in March included a lot too but in addition to that was only strength and core I’m curious to see how more HIIT goes with Kickboxing, Pilates and Yoga.

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I’m an aspiring writer still looking for exactly what I want to write about, with a lot of creativity, imagination and desire to write. I studied Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse University where I explored many different sides of writing through my classes and extracurricular activities in order to narrow my search for an identity as a writer. I have written for Citrus TV Noticias and La Voz magazine, both of which gave me the chance to explore different mediums in which to write in. Through Citrus TV Noticias I also gained experience in translating from English to Spanish and vice versa, which is also something that I would be interested in working on since I am fluent in both of these languages. I was also an intern at Syracuse University Press where I got hands on experience in what goes into actually editing and publishing a book. Through out the last four years I have faced a lot of challenges, which helped chape the person I am today. After being in a tragic car accident, being in comma, having a Traumatic Brain Injury, and being in therapy for over a year, I am a new me, willing to face challenges and knowing how to deal with them. I want to write about my accident and life after it to help others, show them it can be done and help in any way I can.

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