Playground Workouts - The Sequel

So Jane and I did round 2 of the playground workout with the Mums from my local school.  I decided to change the session totally from the week before, just to arm them with some extra ammunition when it came to their summer workouts.

Here is the workout we took the ladies through.  I gleaned my ideas from a number of sources, I am not really that original, so check out Turbulence Training and Alwyn Cosgrove if you like what you see here.

I also introduced a new made up exercise by my friend Natasha.  I don't have any photographs of the 'Natasha push-up', but it is basically this;
- perform 1 full push-up and come back to plank position
- in plank position, take right knee to outside right elbow, then repeat on the left side (this is called spiderman)
and TA-DAHHHH  you have just done a Natasha push-up, and you will do 20 of these in total.

Enjoy the workout!!

Playground Workouts

A few of the Mums from my sons school have been asking me how they can workout in the summer, when going to the gym will be difficult.  So myself and fitness goddess Jane, took the ladies through a workout which they can do anywhere.  I wanted to give them enough information that they feel they can do a quick session at home, in the hotel or on holiday.

We hung out in the playground after school, with all the kids too.  Jane and I did a general conditioning class, based on a circuit training format.  The only props we brought along were battling ropes and a resistance band for chin-ups, all the other exercises were using done using body-weight.

We had so much fun, the kids even joined in occasionally.  And it was really cool to see these women working their butts off - I think they surprised themselves at how hard they could work and how empowering some of the exercises were.

The workout ended with the kids doing a tug-of-war and the parents doing a tabata session.

Click here for copy of the workout. Print it out and use it whenever you know you can't make it to the gym.

Free Workout Thursday!

No equipment required for this bodyweight circuit training workout. I have included hyperlinks to exercise examples, where I think you might need them.

This is a pretty hard workout, so for the first time through, try this at 30 seconds work and 10 secs rest, rather than 50 seconds.  For the inverted row, you can do this under your kitchen table, or do your chin-ups on the monkey bars - there is no excuse!!!

enjoy.

Take-away Thursdays.

I am flying home to the UK next week for 10 days, so have already started planning how I can exercise or at least stay active when I go back home.  This gave me a great idea, how about I start producing weekly workouts that I will post on my blog, in printable pdf. that you can 'take-away' either on the road, on holiday or just to incorporate into your workout schedule.

So my intention is to keep these workouts short and intense, use little or no equipment and make them fun!!  I have created them as 5"x7" a nice portable size, print these on thick paper or card.

click here for your first Metabolic Mixer workout.

let me know what you think of this workout, and send suggestions if you want me to include a favourite exercise of yours.

And don't forget to enter the competition to win 3 Urban Warrior Workouts and a free Tank valued at $105!