Better Bottom Blitz HIIT Workout est 22 min

Dec
2012
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I promise you that if you put your best into this workout you will feel it tomorrow. Well, at least I am majorly feeling it today (day after) and can hardly sit. Sometimes I wonder why I do this to myself, but really I know why! These workouts will make you feel great and look great. They are great for the emotional health, releasing endorphins that make us happy and they are also great for our physical health, driving oxygen to all the cells throughout the body, building muscle, boosting metabolism and helping the body to function better on many different levels. These workouts are hard but the results are an across the board Win! So, let’s get at shaping a better bottom and increasing our physical and mental health too! 

 

Better Bottom Blitz HIIT Workout

Workout Breakdown

Parts 1 and 3  – 8 minutes of Intervals

Set your timer for 8 rounds of 10 seconds rest and 50 seconds work and go through the following exercises:

Alternating Reach Up and Toe Touch Sit Ups
Reverse Lunge with Kick Up – left
Reverse Lunge with Kick Up – right
Side to Side Squats
Weighted Sit Ups with Twist
Pulsing Jump Lunges
Plank Walk Out with Plank Jack
Weighted Woodchop Squats

Part 2 – Time challenge

Do 10 rounds of:
10 Toe Touches and 10 Pendulums

Part 2 took me 6 min and 12 seconds.

 

Workout on Video

 

Exercise Descriptions

Alternating Reach Up and Toe Touch Sit Ups

 

Lie on ground with legs straight and wide apart and sit up while raising one hand up towards the ceiling and then reach over with that hand and touch your toes of the opposite side foot, or as close as you can reach towards them. Then lay back down bringing hands back to ground by or above your head and repeat on the other side, sit up and reach your other arm up and then reach over and touch the opposite side toe with fingers and release coming back to start position. Continue with these sit ups alternating reaching up and touching toes, on different sides for each rep.

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Reverse Lunge with Kick Up

 

From standing position, take a big step backward with one leg and as you put your foot down continue the movement bending front knee and bringing thigh of front knee down and parallel to ground and bending back leg so that knee comes down a few inches from the ground. Then come up and out of lunge and kick forward the back leg up while reaching out with the opposite arm, keeping it parallel to ground and kick up towards your outstretched hand. Continue movements on same leg or alternate legs each time as indicated.

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Side to Side Squats

 

Start standing with legs together, then take a step out to the right and squat down and then step back to start position and repeat on other side; step out on left side, squat and return. Continue alternating sides with each rep.

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Weighted Sit Ups with Twist

 

Lie on the ground with your legs bent, wide apart and with your feet on the ground, hold a medicine ball, dumbbell or other weighted object at ground behind head. Sit up and bring weight up and overhead and then down towards ground between legs, then bring arms parallel to ground and swing the weighted object to the left. Reverse these movements and come back to start position. For the next rep do the same movements for the sit up but swing the weight to the right side. Continue doing sit ups in this manner twisting and bringing the weight to the opposite side for each rep. 

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Pulsing Jump Lunges

 

Start in a forward lunge position, with front leg bent and back leg straight, jump up and simultaneously switch leg positions, so that opposite leg is forward, then pulse down and up in this position. This is one rep. After pulsing down and up, jump again switching leg positions so that opposite leg is lunging forward and pulse down and up again and continue in this manner, jumping and pulsing between each jump.

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Plank Walk Out with Plank Jack

 

From standing bend over at hips so hands touch floor and walk hands out to plank position, do a plank jack by jumping feet both out at the same time to wide legs and then back in to center, and then walk arms back in and stand up. This is one rep.

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Weighted Wood chop Squats

 

Start at standing with feet shoulder width apart and holding a weighted object such as a medicine ball, dumbbell or other in both hands, squat down and bring weight down towards ground and then come up and do a woodchop bringing the weight high overhead to one side. This is one rep. Then bring it down again and come back down into a squat and on the next rep do a woodchop bringing the weight up high to the other side. Continue these movements doing a squat and then alternating swinging the weight up to the opposite side for the woodchop.

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Toe Touches

 

Lay on mat and bring legs up so they are at 90 degrees with soles of feet facing ceiling, ms are kept straight and spread out to the, crunch up torso and bring arms up to touch toes and then keeping legs up throughout all movements, lower torso and arms back to the ground. This is one rep. Continue repeating these movements. 

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Pendulums

 

Start in pike position and lift one leg to the side as far as possible, bring that leg down while bringing the opposite leg up on the other side as far as possible, continue alternating legs. Every time a foot hits the ground counts as 1 rep

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Have a great workout!

 

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