Posts Tagged ‘bodyweight’
This bodyweight workout is an interval HIIT workout done in 3 parts. It combines a rep challenge, a time challenge and an interval training part. The first part has cardio exercises to get the heart rate up. The second part is filled with leg exercises, guaranteed to have you feeling your leg muscles building the next day. And the third part is 6 minutes of HIIT intervals of awesome ab exercises. We’re targeting core, legs and abs with this workout and all you need is yourself and a timer. || Read more
This primal workout will bring out your inner animal! Primal workouts are a new trend with bodyweight workouts. The primal exercises in them are based on animal movement patterns. These more natural movements can be more fun than traditional exercise strength moves, and they build strength, flexibility, power, and endurance at the same time. Working many body parts at once increases your inner core strength and gives you a major calorie burn. || Read more
The All Fun and Squats Workout really is a fun workout and combines amrap (as may rounds as possible) exercise combos with HIIT interval training. All bodyweight exercises in the workout, lots of squats, mountain climbers, plank jumps, burpees and crunch variations come together into a fun and fast paced leg and abs workout that makes time go by quick. || Read more
This tabata workout has three 4 minute rounds. The first and the last are tabata interval training rounds and the second round is a rep challenge, to do as many reps as possible of a side plank burpees. I love these burpees. They will challenge your balance, which is always great to work on your inner core muscles. This workout takes little room. It is short, only 12 minutes, and tabata workouts are proven to build strength and endurance fast. || Read more
This arms workout uses creative variations of push up exercises along with burpees and other jumping exercises to distract the mind, make the workout fun and get as many push ups out of you as possible. Different strategies are used to do the push ups exercises in different ways and work the major push up muscles: the pecs, the triceps and deltoids, and other upper body muscles: lats, biceps, as well as the inner stabilizing assisting muscles. || Read more
This abs workout is 16 minutes of interval training, in which different types of crunches get alternated. Rounds of mountain climbers are added into the mix, which are a great ab exercise as well as adding in some great cardio to get out heart rate up, as well as our metabolism boosted and revved up. There are some new crunch exercises, which work different ab muscles as well as obliques. || Read more
This leg workout is designed to make you really feel it! So don’t be surprised if you are walking a little funny the next day. Youch. But in a good muscle building way, of course! This one is a pyramid workout with all bodyweight exercises. You start off slow with 5 reps, then do 10, then 20 (killer, but doable), 10 and then the last 5 is a breeze and a relief. It feels great to finish that off and if you are like me, you will be left lying in a little pool of sweat at the end. || Read more
