Today's wild workout comes from FitnessBlender.com. It is a 45 minute, high intensity, interval workout.
According to the their website, you can burn anywhere from 322 to 507 calories doing this workout.
It is set up tabata style, which is 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest repeated 8 times.
Here are the workout details from the website:
"Fitness Blender's 45 minute tabata training video targets multiple muscle groups, builds endurance, and burns off a great deal of calories.
This time we do HIIT intervals (20 on, 10 off) eight times through for a whole four minutes for each exercise. It’s tough, and a bit different from our usual structuring of HIIT workout videos up until this point – we usually do two minute intervals, but mixing it up like this is a great way to keep your body on it’s toes.
What I really ended up liking about this workout was that it was great for calling out weak spots in your body in terms of strength and endurance. It’s definitely a total body workout, and if you pay attention, the exercises that you really struggle with in those long 4 minute intervals are likely the places that you need to work on most. For me, I had a very hard time with the push ups (try not to laugh as you watch me trudge through those...). Upper body strength is definitely my weakness and something that I know that I need to work on – as you can probably tell from the video, after a few rounds of active intervals my push ups started to slow down and my form started to waiver. If I put a little extra effort into training my upper body muscles, I will likely find that the next time I try this workout, this part will be a little easier.
Be mindful throughout this workout and pay attention to the intervals that you find the most challenging – core, upper and lower body, and cardiovascular endurance are the main components of this routine; being aware of which one is hardest for you may be revealing of muscles and training types that you are neglecting in your normal program."
A warm up and cool down with a stretch are both included. Please don't skip either of these, they are both important!
Fitness Blender offers all of their workouts for free. They do accept donations on their website to help offset costs. They also offer some other programs (an 8 week program most recently) in which members pay a fee for. There is a link to their website on the right sidebar.
Are you still doing your squats?
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