Tuesday, May 3, 2011

One spot wet weather workout

Yes its rainy and wet outside but it's no excuse not to do some exercise in the comfort of your own home - these exercises can be done in your lounge room.  You don't need much space and we are concentrating on strength, so moving S-L-O-W-L-Y through each exercise so as to gain the most 'time under tension' as possible.

Grab your elastic and complete

Lower body complete one exercise after the other then rest for 60 seconds before completing a second circuit
  • Squat with elastic (make it heavy) x 12 - 
  • tempo 3 seconds down, hold for 3 at the bottom, 3 seconds up
  • Sumo Squat with elastic (make it heavy) x 12 - 
  • tempo3 seconds down, hold for 3 at the bottom, 3 seconds up
  • Single leg lunge with elastic (make it heavy) x 12 each leg 
tempo - 3 seconds down, hold for 3 at the bottom, 3 seconds up


Upper body complete one exercise after the other then rest for 60 seconds before completing a second circuit
  • Push ups - complete as many as you can on your toes then drop to knees (or just knees if you are not up to toes yet) THEN without resting go straight up onto your toes and lower down A-S   S-L-O-W  A-S  Y-O-U  C-A-N until your body is on the floor..... pick yourself up into your start position to go again.  x3
  • Cobra - very slowly go move from face down on the floor to upper body raised - squeeze  your shoulder blades together and keep shoulders down.  x10 hold for 3 at the top (as per pictures)
  •  Side prone - hold for 10 secs (or longer if you can) then aim to move through prone without coming down so as to complete a side prone on the other side.
 Enjoy


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Jen I did this workout today at home as it was chucking it down. It was so good to have something to do, so thank you for posting workouts! thanks, emma w