Short on time? Here’s a quick way to get a burst of cardio into your day!
After a short dynamic warm-up, do one round of the workout to get your heart rate pumping and your body loosened up. Then with each subsequent round, you can increase your intensity for a killer workout.
Each round is only 1-minute long and you can do as many rounds as you want! Simply set an interval timer for 10 seconds of cardio work and 5 seconds of squats, and get going!
THE WORKOUT (ONE ROUND)
- 10 seconds: Jumping jacks (Advanced option: Star jumps)
- 5 seconds: 1 to 3 Squats
- 10 seconds: Scissors (Advanced option: Split lunges)
- 5 seconds: 1 to 3 Squats
- 10 seconds: Jog (Advanced option: Sprint)
- 5 seconds: 1 to 3 Squats
- 10 seconds: Speed Skaters
- 5 seconds: 1 to 3 Squats
Recover for at least 30 seconds, and then repeat the round, increasing your intensity if possible. Challenge yourself to complete 5 rounds!
Phew! What did you think? Share in the comments below!
18 Responses
Great start to a Saturday morning! I did 10 minutes!
Nice job Weba!!! Get it done 🙂
What did you say the app was? Can I find something like this for the internet? I don’t have one of those fancy phones.
Tabata Pro
Sadly, still too much for the knee! Gosh darn meniscus!
What was the name of the interval timer you used?
Tabata Pro
For the purpose of this exercise even the free version should do the job
Never been an exerciser but trying to get going. This sounds like something I can do to start me off.
How many calories does each 1 minute workout burn?
That really is going to depend on the person. Someone may burn more than others. You can probably get one of those watches that track calories burned or whatever, but I don’t know much about them or if they’re accurate.
What if you’ve had knee surgery and haven’t been able to squat since?
I dont know why that whenever I do jumping jacks or jogging the people in the apartment below me complain.
Shane was great! What good information. And so simple. I usually don’t like these, because its stuff I already know. But this was REALLY good!!
You can put MyFitnessPal on any device, including your PC. This little burst routine looks good, but I’m not sure what some of the moves are… where can we find descriptions of each of the above??
They’re all demonstrated in the video
Brilliant workouts. How can you log these exercises on myfitness to workout the calories burned x
will definitely add this one. Thanks