"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

Workout - BBBW (Beautiful by Body Weight)

You probably all know by now that I love body weight exercises.  I love play with fun stuff like kettle bells, Dynamax Balls, Bands and other torture devices but my favorite exercises are the ones where you use nothing but your body weight.  "Your body is your business and you only have an inventory of one" is a quote I just read in the book, Rhinoceros Success by Scott Alexander (great read by the way!).  This body is an amazing thing.  Treat it right and it will do just about anything you ask it to do.  But it starts by being able to move just it and nothing else.  If you are not strong enough to move your body around efficiently, then there's no use in adding a ton of weight.  Get your form and technique down first before you jump in.  Start with the basics, have fun with it and make it a game if you'd like!

Grad a 6-sided die and think of 6 different exercises.  Assign a number to each exercise.  Roll the die and then do the exercise along with THAT numbers of reps.  If you assign push-up to the #1, then do one push-up!  But then roll again and move right along to the next exercise.  Do it for time periods of 3-5 minutes and shoot for 8-10 rounds with 1:00 rest in between.

Example:
1- Push-up
2 - Squat jump
3 - Burpee with push-up
4 - Jumping Jacks
5 - Side Planks (on hands)
6 - Up-Downs

Have Fun!

"10 to 100" Workout

We did a workout in class this week at the Arboretum and North Austin Locations called "10 to 100."  Sounds awesome, right?  Well, it is.

Here's the deal (and OF COURSE you can "steal" these workouts and do them at home on your own)..... pick 10 exercises of your choice.  Write them down on pieces of paper or notecards (split them in half to save paper!).  Take the cards, shuffles them and pick the cards one by one.  The first exercise you pick you will do 10 reps, the second card you picks means you will do 20 reps of that exercise, the third card 30 and so on..... alllllllll the way up to 100.  Yes, 100.  You may or may not regret picking burpees as one of your exercises but then again, I doubt any of you actually CHOOSE to do burpees unless forced to somehow.  As far as your exercises, I suggest mixing it up......legs, arms, cardio, core, etc

Need a few ideas?  Watch our the video on the homepage!

Questions?