Archive for the ‘Workouts’ Category
This new Ugi ab workout is an HIIT workout make up of intervals and full of new exercises. 4 Ugi exercises, which are full body core exercises, get alternated with a new weighted crunch exercise. I used dumbbells but you can use whatever weight you have available, dumbbells, balls, water bottles; they will all work. || 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 sandbag workout is a time challenge with 5 rounds of an exercise sequence that has skipping with lots of favorite sandbag exercises. The last sandbag exercise in each round changes, and alternates different sandbag leg exercises, mostly lunges and squats. There are ab exercises, a sandbag sit ups and leg raise combo, and lots of great cardio exercises with burpees, also a great ab exercise, combined with skipping. || Read more
This Ugi workout is a 15 minute workout with new Ugi exercises. This new HIIT workout features the Ugi ball and goes through rounds of 6 different leg and abs exercises in rounds of intervals. High intensity interval training is the fastest and most effective way to shape your body. It has been proven to build muscle while helping you to lose body fat simultaneously better than any other form of training, and I know first hand, and second hand, that this works. || 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
