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Strength Workout # 3: Variety Pack

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This workout has a bit of everything. It has some exercises using a medicine ball. If you don’t have access to a medicine ball or a weight, a jug filled with water will work just fine!

Active warmup.

Workout – Variety Pack:
20 rowboats (this is normal yoga “boat pose” with bent knees except move your knees toward your chest while you move your chest toward your knees. This is the same motion as if you were on a rowing machine. Your feet never touch the ground.)

20 side to side crunches with a medicine ball
14 spiderman pushups
plank (x2 for 45 sec each; rest between sets)
side plank (x2 for 45 sec each side; rest between sets)
20 shoulder dips
20 shoulder shrugs
20 bridges
20 step ups with a leg extension (Step up a stair or into a doorway. When you have stepped all the way up with one foot, extend your opposite leg backward approximately 6-10 inches while flexing your glutes. Step back down and step up with your opposite leg. This exercise is meant to get your glutes firing independently so that you can strengthen each side.)

20 high side plank switches (Start in a high plank position and rotate into a high side plank. Rotate back to a high plank position and repeat on the other side.)

30 side leg lifts each side (10 each of your foot parallel to the floor, toes pointed toward the ground, and toes pointed toward the ceiling)
10 yoga pushups
10 side tricep pushups (each side)
10 circles with a medicine ball (each direction, with a squat)
20 pikes on a yoga ball
10 circles with a medicine ball while standing on a bosu ball (each direction, with a squat)
10 elbow to knee twist while standing on a bosu ball (each side)

10 diamond pushups
flutter kicks (60 sec)

Cool down!!

Strength Workout #1: Whoa it’s a Workout

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Warmup:
5 sun salutations
10 hip rotations each directions
20 arm swings (side to side, forward, and backward)
20 trunk twists
20 lunges
20 squats

Warmups need to be active instead of stationary stretching to warm up the muscles, as opposed to stretching tendons. Focus needs to be on warming up the core and the shoulders.

The Workout (“Whoa it’s a Workout):
Note: These are designed for a “rather in-shape” male. As a woman, I usually do the same workout but only do half the reps for any kind of pushup exercise, or I do as many as I can with proper form. The following sequence is designed to have minimal rest time in between exercises (i.e., no more than 1 min) unless otherwise noted.

12 regular pushups
20 regular crunches
12 pushups with feet up on a chair
30 sec plank
30 sec side plank (each side)
12 spiderman pushups
30 sec flutter kicks (while laying on back)
12  stationary inchworms
20 shoulder dips (use a chair or steady low table)
20 shoulder shrugs (from the same position as the dips… keep elbows locked)
20 crunches on a yoga ball
10 circles with a medicine ball (each side)
20 leg throw-downs (do leg lifts if no partner)
5 yoga pushups (make sure to do these with good form)
5 triangle/diamond pushups
10 side tricep pushups (each side)
20 pikes on yoga ball (may need an extra minute rest after this one)
20 supermans (level 1 according to this video)
10 bird-dogs (each side, bring knee to opposite elbow)
20 bridges
10 side plank hip raises (each side)

Cool Down:
3 sun salutations
Static stretching focusing on arms and twists (some examples include gripping the inside of a doorway while leaning through to stretch the pectoralis muscles, sitting twists, and stretching the triceps)