03/04/2020
30 minute HIIT Circuit
Purpose - Keep heart rate continually rising & lowering.
Function - Spike metabolism via compound adaption & minimal rest periods.
Systems used - Primary Aerobic & minimal Anaerobic
Equipment - Body weight & Improvised Hand Weights
•REMEMBER Weights, reps & exercise mechanisms are suggestions only! Please vary weights, reps & exercise mechanisms as necessary.
》3 ROUNDS
Description.
Do one exercise after the other, then once all are completed have a short rest, then move through the same exercises again, but with the increased reps on each round.
Rd1 •12 reps
Rd2 •16 reps
Rd3 •20 reps
1.
Body weight squats
2.
Plank on elbows
3.
Plyo jumps
4.
Push ups
5.
Mountain climbers
6.
Alternating lunges
7.
50mtr Sprint / 50mtr walk
8.
Mountain climbers
9.
Sit ups or cruches
10.
Mountain climbers
11.
Plank
12.
Push ups
Exercise Description
1.
Body weight squats, wide stance, toes pointing slightly outward, arms straight & out in front at shoulder height, hands together, keeps your arms nice & still.
2.
Plank on elbows. Body straight & long. Hands together. Look at your hands. Feet hip width apart
Eg. RD1 swap the reps for seconds.
RD1 = 12secs.
3.
Explosive plyo jumps - Stand with comfortable stance, jump & swing & push hands towards the sky to increase momentum on the jump, land as softly as possible & allow hands to swing back down to your side - repeat.
Option - Hand weights
4.
Push ups on toes or low option = on knees.
High option = include 1
alternating leg reverse scissor kick between each push up as you are coming upwards.
5.
Transition straight into fast mountain climbers, should only take a few seconds, but it is meant to spike your heart rate.
6.
Alternating stance step in - step out lunges
Option - hand weights
7.
50 metre sprint/run
50 metre walk back to start position
ea. sprint/walk is 2 reps
Eg. RD1 Sprint/walk 6 times.
Option hand weights
6.
Spike the heart rate with
Plank on elbows again.
7.
Sit ups or cruches. Primary focus on contraction & then relaxatiin of the abdominals during each rep.
8.
Transition straight into fast mountain climbers again
9.
Sit ups or Crunches
10.
Transition straight in really fast mountain climbers again
11.
Plank on elbows again.
12.
Transition straight into push ups.