Share your non-commercial exercise routines?

cmonskinnylovee
cmonskinnylovee Posts: 339
edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Nothing by Jillian Michaels or Tone It Up or anyone other than you. What have YOU come up with all on your own in order to exercise?

I have had hundreds of routines, but I have to say the most effective ones are the ones that involve interval training.

Example:

30 sec walk in place
30 sec jog in place
30 sec run in place
1 minute of jumping jacks
1 minute of butt kickers
1 minute of high knees (ouch)
1 minute of butt kickers
1 minute of jumping jacks
30 sec run in place
30 sec jog in place
30 sec walk in place

And then I would repeat it three times to get to a total of around 21 minutes.

Share yours!

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  • Tennessee2019
    Tennessee2019 Posts: 676 Member
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  • bree2012
    bree2012 Posts: 179
    Step 1: Warm Up
    1 min stretching
    20 crunches
    5 min jump rope
    10 push ups
    5 min jump rope

    Step 2: Cardio
    Indoors - I go to my basement to use the bike, or I'll go to the gym to use either the treadmill or elliptical for half an hour.
    Outdoors - Usually I ride my bike or jog for half an hour. Sometimes I will swim, play basketball, or play volleyball.
  • calmmomw3minimeez
    calmmomw3minimeez Posts: 499 Member
    I log this under circuit training:
    30 jumping jacks
    20 push-ups
    20 overhead presses
    repeat all
    40 step ups
    20 bicep curls
    20 tricep curls
    repeat all
    10 crunches with hand weight
    10 oblique crunches with weight
    10 bicycle crunches
    10 suitcase crunches
    30 jumping jacks
    I think this is about 37 minutes:smile:
  • welcominganewself
    welcominganewself Posts: 283
    BUMP! These all sound like good routines!
  • cmonskinnylovee
    cmonskinnylovee Posts: 339
    I log this under circuit training:
    30 jumping jacks
    20 push-ups
    20 overhead presses
    repeat all
    40 step ups
    20 bicep curls
    20 tricep curls
    repeat all
    10 crunches with hand weight
    10 oblique crunches with weight
    10 bicycle crunches
    10 suitcase crunches
    30 jumping jacks
    I think this is about 37 minutes:smile:

    I really like this one O.O I need to get some weights haha
  • AZTrailRunner
    AZTrailRunner Posts: 1,199 Member
    I use a lot if different equipment from sand bags, kettlebells, tractor tires, battling ropes, and so on in my interval/ tabata workouts. But a simple workout that requires little gear is as follows:

    2 pull- ups
    4 push- ups
    6 wall squats or burpees
    2:00 jump rope
    REPEAT cycle for 20 minutes
  • sufikitkat
    sufikitkat Posts: 583 Member
    I take a boot camp class twice a week, and in those classes we rotate stations which vary from simply doing bicep wall curls to flipping a 250/450 pound tire. Also, running outside up and down a hill and around the building when the weather allows. When I am not at the boot camp class on Mondays (or if I have to miss it for whatever reason), here is my current routine: (I am also doing the 100 pushup challenge)

    Warm-up with high knees and squat thrusts, walking lunges, frog jumps
    Push 75 + pounds down the length of the weight room, followed by swinging jump ropes with arms alternate 2-3 times
    Flip 250 pound tire down the length of the weight room
    Do the pushup challenge workout of the day (usually 4 sets followed by max reps)
    Bicep Curls 2 sets of 8 currently at 15 lb. weights
    modified pull ups 2 sets of 6 per leg lifted.
    Ab workout focused on lower abs to improve strength for running, also basic crunches, side planks, etc.
    Active stretching followed by static stretching
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,373 Member
    I post most of mine here http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/rileysowner
  • tristahenry
    tristahenry Posts: 175
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  • shubhamjain
    shubhamjain Posts: 5 Member
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  • vnelson17
    vnelson17 Posts: 31
    5 minutes of streching
    10 minute warm up job
    40 (off and on) of carido
    -4 minutes of stadium stairs
    - 4 minutes of air boxing
    - 4 minutes of hard jogging
    * and repeat for 40 minutes
    10 cool down walk/lite jog
    3 hour nap
  • cmonskinnylovee
    cmonskinnylovee Posts: 339
    5 minutes of streching
    10 minute warm up job
    40 (off and on) of carido
    -4 minutes of stadium stairs
    - 4 minutes of air boxing
    - 4 minutes of hard jogging
    * and repeat for 40 minutes
    10 cool down walk/lite jog
    3 hour nap

    LOL the nap part is my favorite!

    but that is a lot of work... you definitely deserve a nap after all that!
  • taso42_DELETED
    taso42_DELETED Posts: 3,394 Member
    Running and lifting weights
  • baisleac
    baisleac Posts: 2,019 Member
    Don't do this one at the moment (Insanity/NROLFW hybrid right now), but one of my first "routines" was: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/baisleac/view/hiit-mrt-circuit-training-whatever-you-want-to-call-it-92808

    Walk/Jog in place for 5 min. warm up.
    Stretch

    Mountain Climber for 30 sec.
    Rest for 10 sec.
    Dumb bell Swing for 30 sec.
    Rest for 10 sec.
    Kick Backs for 30 sec.
    Rest for 10 sec.
    Pushups for 30 sec.
    Rest for 10 sec.
    Running curls for 30 sec. (Run in place while doing bicep curls)
    Rest for 10 sec.
    Knee Ins for 30 sec.
    Rest for 10 sec.
    High Knees for 30 sec.
    Rest for 10 sec.
    Tricep Dips for 30 sec.
    Walk in place for 60 - 90 sec. (I usually grab a few sips of water here)

    Repeat from Mountain Climbers.

    When you can do no more, walk in place for 5 minutes and stretch... then eat/drink some protein/carbs.
  • CaWaterBug8
    CaWaterBug8 Posts: 1,040 Member
    Nice. For swimming I usually don't always have too much time, but I'll try to do something like this to get in about a mile:

    Warm up: 600
    200 warm up swim (I usually do free/crawl for the whole exercise w/ sml spurts of other strokes)
    200 kick
    200 pull - If you have a pull buoy, then do 200 pull, but since I don't, I just so another 200 fr swim

    Main set:1,000
    200 kick around 80 to 90%
    200 free swim
    200 Free: head up (fast), head down (easy), <-- repeat, and the rest free @ 70%
    200 Alternate btwn free x 50 and breast x50 all @ 90-100%
    200 Choice - IM, Breast, Free, whatever you want. But whatever you choose to do, go all out on it.

    Cool down:
    200 Easy

    All for a total of 1800 yrds. :)
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