Mix Up Your Routine!


Mix Up Your Routine!


Adding variety to your workouts will keep your exercises from becoming ineffective. You may still be burning calories, but mixing up your routine will get you quicker and better results. Mixing it up also helps to prevent a burn-out and keeps you in the gym! There are many ways you can mix up your routine including: more reps/sets, interval training and trying a new group exercise class! 
Try adding some of these moves to your regular workout!
Cardio: Wide Mountain Climbers

How to:
  1. Starting in the plank position with your wrists under shoulders, align your body from head to heels.
  2. Drive your right knee toward the outside of your right elbow by lifting your leg and bending your knee.
  3. Return to the beginning position.
  4. Alternate and repeat (as fast as you can!)

Benefit: This mountain climber variation targets more muscle groups!
Tip: Aim to keep the front foot level with your hands.

 This move can be done with or without gliding discs depending on the difficulty you desire! P.S. gliding disks may increase the level of difficulty! 



Strength: Dumbbell Squat, Curl, Press
How to:
  1. Stand with your feet directly under your hips holding a dumbbell in each hand. Sit back into your squat, keeping the weight in your heels, bringing your thighs parallel to the floor without letting your knees go beyond your toes.
  2. Push through your heels to return to standing while bringing the weights to your shoulders, performing a bicep curl.
  3. Stabilize your torso and keep your arms moving upward performing an overhead press with the palms facing out.
  4. Lower your arms back to your side to complete one rep.

Benefit: Moving from a squat to an overhead press gets the heart rate going while building muscle. This is a true total body exercise!
Tip: Keep your back straight as you move through this exercise!
Core: Side Plank with Leg Lift

How to:
  1. Place your right elbow and/or hand on the ground. Extend both legs out so that your body is in one straight line and you're balancing on the outside edge of your right foot.
  2. Flex both feet if you can, and either rest your top hand on your upper hip or extend it in the air. Keeping your spine lengthened and your abs engaged, lift your left leg just higher than your top hip. Then slowly lower it back to your bottom leg.

Benefit: This move targets the shoulders, waist, abs, back, outer thighs and glutes.

Tip: Try 30 seconds on each side or 15-20 reps on each side 


Or try this modification! 



Let us know how you change up your routine! 


Sources:
https://tauff.com/index.php/component/tauff/354?view=exercise
https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/photo-gallery/33387231/image/33514537/Squat-Curl-Press
https://www.popsugar.com/fitness/photo-gallery/17932974/image/17941568/Side-Plank-Leg-

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