Trainer's Challenge, A Good Workout!

dsjohndrow

I took a cardio class at the YMCA. Each week we do the following as a timed exercise. A year ago I couldn't complete it. Yesterday I did it in 3:54 seconds - after I ran a mile warm up. Lots of folks ask for advice, or are concerned that they don't' have money for the gym or home training equipment. Well, if you are like me, you have plenty of weight floating around which you can use to your advantage.

30 jumping jacks
5 pushups
25 high knees
7 burpees
10 crunches
7 squats
5 pushups
10 crunches
5 pushups
7 squats
30 jumping jacks
5 pushups
25 high knees

Do that three times, and you have a good basic workout that you can do once a week.

Do you have something similar? I am hoping to find 2 more so I can keep it mixed up.

jdhosier

Great circuit. I need to have a trainer yelling at me for an hour to get a good curcuit. :-)

hauer01

Thank you so much for sharing. I having been trying to figure out a workout that I could do at home besides the straight cardo that I have been doing. I had no idea where to start.

I am new to this whole fitness idea. Not that I was a sloth that didn't do anything, I just never took the time to keep track and be accountable for what I was doing. Now, for the first time in my life, I decided that I better. Thank you again for sharing. I will add this in as my week-end workout.





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SouthernNHgirl

3:54 seconds? WOW!

I might give this one a try!

kasarin

saving

lwoods34

Now did you complete the whole rotation in 3:54?

How much rest (if any at all) do you give yourself between rotations? I might actually try this today!!! Let me know!

Also for the high knees, what is considered 1 rep. Do you count each leg as a rep OR both legs as 1 rep?

lyngoode

Ex-squeeze me???? :noway: :noway: :noway:

CRSE1214

bump .... what is a burpee?

jodi_bannister

Bump. Thank you

dsjohndrow

Now did you complete the whole rotation in 3:54?

How much rest (if any at all) do you give yourself between rotations? I might actually try this today!!! Let me know!

Also for the high knees, what is considered 1 rep. Do you count each leg as a rep OR both legs as 1 rep?

No rest, just let it rip. It is designed to be a little easier towards the end to account for gasping for air.

High knees is one pair L-R.

lwoods34

Now did you complete the whole rotation in 3:54?

How much rest (if any at all) do you give yourself between rotations? I might actually try this today!!! Let me know!

Also for the high knees, what is considered 1 rep. Do you count each leg as a rep OR both legs as 1 rep?

No rest, just let it rip. It is designed to be a little easier towards the end to account for gasping for air.

High knees is one pair L-R.

Okay great. Im up for the challenge. I will let you know how I do!

dsjohndrow

bump .... what is a burpee?

1 Begin in a standing position.
2 Drop into a squat position with your hands on the ground.
3 Extend your feet back in one quick motion to assume the front plank position.
4 Do a push up.
5 Return to the squat position in one quick motion.
6 Return to an upright standing position.
7 Jump up

Angie80281

Bumping. This looks like a great workout to do on the weekends when I'm stuck in the house with the kiddos. Thanks!

dsjohndrow

Bumping. This looks like a great workout to do on the weekends when I'm stuck in the house with the kiddos. Thanks!

As long as no one lives downstairs, it's a killer.

edmoulaison

Great workout idea. Thanks...

Alachofra15

bump .... what is a burpee?

1 Begin in a standing position.
2 Drop into a squat position with your hands on the ground.
3 Extend your feet back in one quick motion to assume the front plank position.
4 Do a push up.
5 Return to the squat position in one quick motion.
6 Return to an upright standing position.
7 Jump up

The push-up bit is generally considered to be an optional component of a burpee - but wtg for including it...

colleengenthe

Thank you for sharing!!

ksmorck

bump

smurfette75

nice...will try later today

blv0267

Bump

Thanks a bunch!

thegirl68

thanks for sharing - I know what I'm going to do tomorrow!

bejuled74

saving

hofficoffi

bump will try this soon xxx

becon1022

Tabata workout. Its 20sec of work followed by 10sec of rest for 8 rounds(ends up being 4 min). The must common routine is pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, squats. So you would do 20/10 all 8rds of pull-ups first, then push-ups, & so on. You only rest the 10sec between movements. You can do this for single movements ( just squats, try active rest at the bottom), combine 2 together (squats/push-ups do 20 sec of squats rest 10 sec do 20 sec of push-ups so on till u did 8 rounds of both (8 min total)). try keeping your rep numbers they same from start to finish. You can play around with it in many ways.

aliciamille

Burpies...KILL ME. they make me wish for death LOL

czechsmate

Bump:bigsmile:

Reinventing_Me

bump!

Kia148

bump

dsjohndrow

Burpies...KILL ME. they make me wish for death LOL

Amen!

ellie0213

Nice circuit! Have you checked out bodyrock.tv. Search their workout library for "challenges" -- they have several that are killer!

I agree -- burpees -- ugh!

lwoods34

I took a cardio class at the YMCA. Each week we do the following as a timed exercise. A year ago I couldn't complete it. Yesterday I did it in 3:54 seconds - after I ran a mile warm up. Lots of folks ask for advice, or are concerned that they don't' have money for the gym or home training equipment. Well, if you are like me, you have plenty of weight floating around which you can use to your advantage.

30 jumping jacks
5 pushups
25 high knees
7 burpees
10 crunches
7 squats
5 pushups
10 crunches
5 pushups
7 squats
30 jumping jacks
5 pushups
25 high knees

Do that three times, and you have a good basic workout that you can do once a week.

Do you have something similar? I am hoping to find 2 more so I can keep it mixed up.

Okay. I did those 13 exercises 3 times with no rest and my time was 7:46. Now did you do just 1 rotation of all those exercises in 3:54?