What makes body weight circuits work so well? Every exercise involved utilizes multiple muscle groups, gets your heart rate pumping, and burns tons of calories. from Jason Ferruggia and Alwyn Cosgrove, two fitness gurus whose opinions and research I highly respect. Essentially, circuit weight training burns more calories than interval training, which burns WAY more calories than steady cardio. Essentially, if you’re trying to lose weight, spending hours doing cardio on a treadmill is a really crappy use of your time.
I’m going to take you through a basic workout today that can be completed in your house, apartment, out at a park, in your parents’ basement, wherever. As always, make sure you are cleared by your personal physician for physical activity before attempting these exercises. Proceed at your own risk!
Strength-Intensive Bodyweight Exercises
1. Bar Muscle-Ups2. Pullups
(palms facing away, aka pronated grip)
3. Chinups
(palms facing you, aka supine grip)
4. Burpees
5. Pushups
6. Lunges
7. Squats
Cardio-Intensive Bodyweight Exercises
1. Mountain Climbers2. Squat Thrusts
Squat thrusts are essentially burpees without the pushup: From a standing position, drop into a squat, kick your legs out behind you into a plank position. Bring your legs back toward you, then jump back to your feet.
3. Donkey Kicks
You'll probably want to do this on a mat. Start on your hands and knees. Extend one leg out behind you, making sure to fire your glutes and hamstrings, and then bring it back down. Repeat with your other leg.
4. High Knees
The classic high-step drill. Make sure to pump your arms to get your knees at maximum height.
5. Drop Squats
These are similar to standard unweighted squats, except that at the bottom of the squat, you'll quickly bring your arms behind you. Keep your arms straight. Make sure not to let your knees go too far over your toes.
6. "1-2-3 Heismans"
These are like high knees, except you'll also be stepping side-to-side with each step. Start by moving to the right. Lift your right leg into a high-knee step, then take three quick steps to the right, and pause with your left foot raised. Repeat the steps back to your left. Make sure to land on the midfoot and try to land with quick, soft steps.
7. Speed Skaters
Start in a ready position. Jump to your left with your left leg, and bring your right leg behind your left leg, mimicking the motion of a speed skater. Then jump to your right, and bring your left leg behind your right leg.
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now, most of you know that high intensity interval training (the ever
popular “HIIT”) is great for fat loss. But there are some rules for
really making it work. You’ll read all about effective forms of HIIT
lasting as short as 4 minutes (the Tabata method) and topping out around
15 minutes. The reasons being the workouts are effective because of the
intensity and not the duration.
That’s where the limitation of bodyweight comes in: if you’re going to do HIIT bodyweight workouts, you might need to train a bit longer or make sure you hit large muscle groups. The book on fat loss is pretty clear:
Exercises using multiple large muscles + little rest between sets = aerobic and metabolic benefits.
- See more at: http://www.bornfitness.com/bodyweight-workouts-for-fat-loss/#sthash.VsBjxSpp.dpuf
That’s where the limitation of bodyweight comes in: if you’re going to do HIIT bodyweight workouts, you might need to train a bit longer or make sure you hit large muscle groups. The book on fat loss is pretty clear:
Exercises using multiple large muscles + little rest between sets = aerobic and metabolic benefits.
- See more at: http://www.bornfitness.com/bodyweight-workouts-for-fat-loss/#sthash.VsBjxSpp.dpuf
By
now, most of you know that high intensity interval training (the ever
popular “HIIT”) is great for fat loss. But there are some rules for
really making it work. You’ll read all about effective forms of HIIT
lasting as short as 4 minutes (the Tabata method) and topping out around
15 minutes. The reasons being the workouts are effective because of the
intensity and not the duration.
That’s where the limitation of bodyweight comes in: if you’re going to do HIIT bodyweight workouts, you might need to train a bit longer or make sure you hit large muscle groups. The book on fat loss is pretty clear:
Exercises using multiple large muscles + little rest between sets = aerobic and metabolic benefits.
- See more at: http://www.bornfitness.com/bodyweight-workouts-for-fat-loss/#sthash.VsBjxSpp.dpuf
That’s where the limitation of bodyweight comes in: if you’re going to do HIIT bodyweight workouts, you might need to train a bit longer or make sure you hit large muscle groups. The book on fat loss is pretty clear:
Exercises using multiple large muscles + little rest between sets = aerobic and metabolic benefits.
- See more at: http://www.bornfitness.com/bodyweight-workouts-for-fat-loss/#sthash.VsBjxSpp.dpuf
By
now, most of you know that high intensity interval training (the ever
popular “HIIT”) is great for fat loss. But there are some rules for
really making it work. You’ll read all about effective forms of HIIT
lasting as short as 4 minutes (the Tabata method) and topping out around
15 minutes. The reasons being the workouts are effective because of the
intensity and not the duration.
That’s where the limitation of bodyweight comes in: if you’re going to do HIIT bodyweight workouts, you might need to train a bit longer or make sure you hit large muscle groups. The book on fat loss is pretty clear:
Exercises using multiple large muscles + little rest between sets = aerobic and metabolic benefits.
- See more at: http://www.bornfitness.com/bodyweight-workouts-for-fat-loss/#sthash.VsBjxSpp.dpuf
That’s where the limitation of bodyweight comes in: if you’re going to do HIIT bodyweight workouts, you might need to train a bit longer or make sure you hit large muscle groups. The book on fat loss is pretty clear:
Exercises using multiple large muscles + little rest between sets = aerobic and metabolic benefits.
- See more at: http://www.bornfitness.com/bodyweight-workouts-for-fat-loss/#sthash.VsBjxSpp.dpuf
By
now, most of you know that high intensity interval training (the ever
popular “HIIT”) is great for fat loss. But there are some rules for
really making it work. You’ll read all about effective forms of HIIT
lasting as short as 4 minutes (the Tabata method) and topping out around
15 minutes. The reasons being the workouts are effective because of the
intensity and not the duration.
That’s where the limitation of bodyweight comes in: if you’re going to do HIIT bodyweight workouts, you might need to train a bit longer or make sure you hit large muscle groups. The book on fat loss is pretty clear:
Exercises using multiple large muscles + little rest between sets = aerobic and metabolic benefits.
- See more at: http://www.bornfitness.com/bodyweight-workouts-for-fat-loss/#sthash.VsBjxSpp.dpuf
That’s where the limitation of bodyweight comes in: if you’re going to do HIIT bodyweight workouts, you might need to train a bit longer or make sure you hit large muscle groups. The book on fat loss is pretty clear:
Exercises using multiple large muscles + little rest between sets = aerobic and metabolic benefits.
- See more at: http://www.bornfitness.com/bodyweight-workouts-for-fat-loss/#sthash.VsBjxSpp.dpuf























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