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This upper body workout is a 3 part workout. The first and last parts are the same and are 8 minutes of HIIT high intensity interval training alternating exercises with push ups in them and fun crunches exercises. ; ) They are all fun, right? Well, at least they change up enough that you don’t get bored and one of my favorite burpees is in here. The 2nd part, done between the HIIT rounds, is an awesome cardio exercise that is also great for abs. If you do enough of these you can really feel it in the ab muscles after. Mountain climbers provide awesome cardio that takes up no room, is quiet and works quite a lot of your body at the same time. See how fast you can do them. It’s a challenge. || Read more
This legs and abs workout is a high intensity interval training workout (HIIT) and made up of 15 minutes of intervals. For this one you go through 6 bodyweight exercises each 3 times. The lunging leg exercises are split up with a couple of ab exercises between each one. || Read more
This squats workout is the last workout for the week long squat challenge of 1000 squats, and this fun workout has the last 200 reps. For this one you alternate doing 20 reps of squats with different bodyweight exercises. Mostly bodyweight that is, there are 2 Swiss ball exercises to change it up and make it a little more fun. I will give alternatives for if you don’t have a Swiss ball. I thought this was a really great workout to break up the squats and make them go by fast. The whole workout seemed to go by fast and it is another great way to get lots more squats into your life and shape those legs and butt! || Read more
For this squat workout there are 3 parts. The first and third are a squat based time challenge in which you go through a sequence of 3 different squat exercises and do 5 rounds as quickly as you can. You will feel the leg burn at the end of each and especially after the squat pulses. Between the two time challenges there is a 12 minute set of intervals, which provides a break from the squats and changes it up with other fun bodyweight exercises. These are arranged so that you change positions between each exercise: from a crab exercise facing up to a walk out facing down, table makers up, burpees down. I was thinking of balance and yoga and how you do a pose on each opposite side. This part is quick and active to boost the metabolism, as well as build core and functional strength. || Read more
This 15 minute interval workout has 6 exercises, most are done with a sandbag and half of them, every second exercise, is a squat based exercise. There are some great variations to change it up and they are intermixed with ab and core strengthening and tightening exercises, so again we are hitting legs, butt and abs. High intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts are known and proven to burn fat, improve endurance and build strength simultaneously. || Read more
Squats are one of the top exercises for shaping your legs and working your glutes and this squat workout is filled with them. This one will leave you with muscle burn for a few days after. The squat drop and chop workout combines lots of squats with burpees; each burpee has 10 squats attached to it. Yes, 10! ..and each round of burpees is followed by a different chop based ab exercise. So in addition to hitting your legs and butt this workout really targets your abs as well, which get tackled first with burpees and then with chop crunches. Awesome! We’re shaping our summer body early this year and this workout will bring you one step closer to feeling great in that bikini. Guaranteed. || Read more
This bodyweight workout routine is a vicious circle of 6 classic core strengthening exercises. There are 5 rounds in this workout and each one is the same. For each round, you flow through a sequence doing 10 reps of each exercise. Then mark your time, take a small break if necessary. I took about 30 seconds between each round before moving onto the next one. Marking your time down gives you a little incentive to try to improve it for the next round, but form is more important than speed always. || Read more
