My traditional Christmas Day workout this year was done to the theme of the Twelve Days of Christmas. It includes bodyweight exercises only as I do this in my nearest open space. So we start with exercise 1for 1 rep, then do exercise 2 for 2 reps and exercise 1 for 1 rep, then 3 [...]
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Christmas Day workout
» by gubernatrix December 25th, 2011 at 3:00 pm » Comments (4)
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