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At Home Leg and Ab Workout 1/29/14

It’s that time of the year when I dread hitting the gym at my normal time, right after dropping the children off at school.  I usually spend about 1 hour doing an active workout and 15 minutes stretching.  However, once January 1st hits, I usually do as many home workouts as I can until mid February when the resolution exercisers decide to ditch the gym.

I like to plan out my workouts and being that today was my leg and ab day, I designed a fairly quick and efficient workout to perform at home before we had painters arrive.

Warm Up: Run Stairs 3 minutes.

Legs: 5 rounds 30 seconds work, 30 seconds rest before moving to next exercise.

  1. BOSU Squats with 20 lb Kettlebell
  2. Walking Lunges using Bodyweight
  3. TRX Jump Squats
  4. Hamstring Curls on Stability Ball
  5. TRX Reverse Single Leg Lunge (Repeat on opposite leg)
  6. One Arm Kettlebell Swings with 20 lb bell

***You don’t need the equipment I have to perform these exercises.  Standard squats are fine.  Reverse lunges are a good substitution for the TRX lunges.  You can use dumbbell for stationary squat instead of the swing.***

Abs: 5 rounds 30 seconds work, 30 seconds rest before moving onto next exercise. 

  1. Decline Punch Plank
  2. Decline Walking Plank
  3. Decline Shoulder Tap Plank
  4. Decline Spiderman Plank

*** I used my stairs to help with decline.  You can do these flat on the floor***

I  had a decent calorie burn after this workout:

Leg/Ab Calorie Burn

Leg/Ab Calorie Burn

Enjoy!

~Marci

Bootylicious Workout

Earlier this week, I had a very hectic schedule so I did many of my workouts from home.  If you’re time crunched, money strapped, or just need an efficient lower body workout, then this is the workout for you!

Some of my exercise equipment: stability ball, foam roller, medicine ball, ab wheel, BOSU, TRX Bands

Some of my exercise equipment: stability ball, foam roller, medicine ball, ab wheel, BOSU, TRX Bands

These exercises can be done with just your body weight or you can use a BOSU ball, stability ball, TRX bands, medicine ball or ab wheel like I used.

Bootylicious Workout

BOOTAY!

BOOTAY!

Warm Up: 50 Mountain Climbers

  • (25 ea. leg) Walking Lunges with Trunk Rotation- Can use weighted medicine ball.  Make sure to keep knee directly over your ankle.
  • (25) BOSU Squats- Beginner modification just use bodyweight.  Advanced-turn BOSU over so you are standing on the flat part of the BOSU and ball part is on the floor.
  • (25) Hamstring Curls on stability Ball- Lie on your back.  Feet on the ball, toes pointed to ceiling, lift hips up in bridge.  Keeping core tight, use your heels to draw ball towards your butt while still in bridge.
  • (25) Ab Rollouts with ab wheel.  Can also be performed using stability ball.
  • (25) Jump Squats.  Beginner modification: Just squat with bodyweight remembering to push butt back like you are sitting in a chair.  Keep your knees directly in line with ankles.  Advanced: Use TRX Bands.
  • (15) Burpees
  • (25) Mountain Climbers
  • (45 Sec.) Wall Sits.  Keep back flat against wall by tucking in pelvis.  Get low like you are in chair.  Intermediate/Advanced:  Add weight to your thighs.
  • Run Tall Flight of Stairs- 10 times.  If you have small flight of stairs, run 20 times.
Sweat= Great Workout

Sweat= Great Workout

Rest 1 minute after circuit.

Repeat circuit 1-2 more times.