Here are 31 workouts that you can complete regardless of where you are, on holidays, at-home or in quarantine. You can also quickly adapt them to suit what you have around you, equipment or no-equipment, short on time, change them up so that you can still remain active.
- Ladders
Choose 1 bodyweight movement, like pushups or burpees (or select from the “Exercises you’ve never tried” list at the end of this post.)Do 1 movement per minute at the top of every minute. Add a rep every minute. Go until you can’t complete the required reps in a minute.You might want to add 2-3 other movements to make this a workout. Score is combined total of all movements. - Head-to-Toe Sprint
7 Rounds for Time:
10 Push-ups
10 Air SquatsRun 200m - “Michael”
800m Run
50 Situps
50 Back Extensions (sub Supermans or some other back extension exercise) - Descending Ladder
For time: 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 of 3 different exercises (choose from the standard bodyweight list, like burpees and pushups and situps, or choose from the more novel list below.) - Gym Practice
AMRAP in 20:00
10 Handstand pushups
10 Pistols
(Sub in whatever your clients’ weakest gymnastics movements might be.) - “Tabata Whatever”
Choose 5 home-friendly exercises. For each of the exercises, perform max reps for 8 consecutive Tabata intervals of 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest. Rest 1 minute between exercises.
Example:
Tabata RowRest 1 MinuteTabata Squats
Rest 1 MinuteTabata Pull-upsRest 1 Minute
Tabata Push-upsRest 1 MinuteTabata Sit-upsTabata score is the least number of reps performed in any of the eight intervals. Unit for the row is “calories”. Post lowest Tabata score for each exercise and total for final score as Total Reps. E.G., 10, 20, 5, 10, 15 = 60 - 800m of Burpee Broad jumps
- Bodyweight “Filthy 50”
For Time:
50 Tuck Jumps
50 Push-ups50 Air Squats
50 Handstands
50 Walking Lunges
50 Sit-ups
50 Second L-Sit
50 Burpees - 5k Test – run a 5k for time.
- For Time:
Run 400m
50 Air SquatsRun 400m
50 Push-ups
Run 400m
50 Sit-ups
Run 400m - In 20:00, perform a maximum handstand. Every time you drop, perform 20 dumbbell snatches, alternating hands.
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The Burpee Sprint Maxout, from Men’s Health
5 x 2-minute rounds:
10 burpees
200-m sprintMax-rep burpees - “Cindy”
20 minutes, as many reps as possible (AMRAP)
- 5 Pullups
- 10 Pushups
- 15 squats
Set a timer for 20 minutes. Complete as many rounds as you can before the clock runs out. Replace Pullups with something novel from the list below if necessary.
- “Chelsea”
Every minute on the minute (EMOM) for 30 minutes. Replace Pullups with something novel.
- 5 pull-ups
- 10 push-ups
- 15 squats
- “Annie”
50 double-unders / 50 situps
40 double-unders / 40 situps
30 double-unders / 30 situps
20 double-unders / 20 situps
10 double-unders / 10 situps
…for time. -
“Angie”
For time, replace “pull-ups” with something novel from the list below.
- 100 pullups
- 100 pushups
- 100 situps
- 100 squats
- “Murph”
For time, replace Pullups with a novel exercise if necessary.
- 1 mile run
- 100 pullups
- 200 pushups
- 300 squats
- 1 mile run
- “300”
This was the workout that propelled Mark Twight to fame, and pulled CrossFit along for the ride. Sub the pull-ups and deadlifts (or anything else) with novel exercises from the list below.
25 pull-ups
50 deadlifts (with 60kg)
50 press-ups50 box jumps (onto a 60cm box)
50 floor wipers (with a 60kg bar)
50 two-handed clean-and-presses (with a 24kg kettlebell)
25 pull-ups - “Griff”
Run 800m
Run 400m backward
Run 800mRun 400m backward - 4 rounds of:
Run 400m
50 squats - Run 800m
80 double-unders
80 pushups
then 600/60/60, 400/40/40, 200/20/20 - 100-75-50-25 reps:
situps
flutterkicks (4-count)
leg levers - 50 ring dips
100 squats
50 ring dips100 squats
50 ring dips
(sub dips on anything if your clients don’t have rings at home)
- 21-15-9 reps of:
Body blasters (burpee/pullup/knees to elbows)box jump burpees
Belushi burpees (on jump turn 180 degrees)
Burpee Jacks (plank jack to jumping jack) - Beep Test
You can download the “beep test” as an audio file in several places. Here are the instructions. - 2 rounds:
Max pushups 2:00Max situps 2:00
Max flutterkicks 2:00
Max squats 2:00 - Run 10 minutes max effort
200 squatsRun 10 minutes max effort - 5 rounds of:
10 burpees20 box/bench jumps
30 pushups
40 squats
50 lunges - “Crouching Tiger”
50 squats25 pushups
50 pistols
25 fingertip pushups
50 side lunges
25 knuckle pushups
50 walking lunges
25 diamond pushups - 20-16-12-8-4 reps of:
One-arm pushupsOne-legged squats - 5 rounds of:
100 jumping jacks100 mountain climbers
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