Saturday, April 23, 2011

"An 'Easter workout'? Does that mean you're going to torture us to death?"

That was a quote from one of the 6am campers in the Arboretum class ;-)  Haha...love it!  Try this workout at home, grab a family member and HAVE FUN with it!

E - Eleven Slow Push-ups (any kind you want...narrow, wide, side-to-side, decline, etc)
A - A hundred bicycles
S - Sixty Mountain Climbers
T - Ten Burpees with a push-up
E - Eleven Pull-ups (if you have no where to do pull-ups then do bent-over rows with dumb bells)
R - Ridiculous Amounts of Core focused exercises

BONUS:  To make this workout more fun, grab a die (dice? ....I don't know my dice grammar, haha).  But you know...the thing with 6 sides and up to 6 dots on a side...that thing.  Usually white.  After you do the initial amount of your exercises, go ahead and roll the die up to 5 more times to see how many MORE you need to do.  What you can also do to break it up is do all the exercises with the set amount and then go BACK THROUGH a few more times while rolling for each exercise to see how many to do.

Core Exercises to do:
Russian Twists
Supermans
Scissors
V-ups
Ankle Grabbers
Core Planks

-Do a total of 500 reps of any of these and then top it off with a few minutes of core planks (rest as needed but hold them for as long as you can each time until you reach 3:00 or higher)

 As always, if you don't know an exercise or you need to vary it up.....it's ok to choose your own exercises.  (You can check out our YouTube video for some more) Make it what you want.  Have fun!

-Coach Robyn