Fitness tip of the week - "Ladder" workouts

No... not the Agility Ladder that you use... but a great way to improve your Strength and Endurance! ... especially if you're short on time, space or equipment.

This type of "ladder" workout is great for strength-building moves whether it be body-weight exercises, free weights or machines.

You can make a workout into a ladder by increasing/decreasing the number of Reps per set, Time per set, Distance per set or the amount of Weight per set.  You'll be surprised at what you can achieve!!

Here's an example of a workout that we've been doing lately...

30 'Sandbag' Clean & Press

30 Weighted Squats

30 Chest Press

30 Reverse Flys

2 minutes of Cardio

30 Crunches

1-2 minute Recovery

(Repeat for 25, 20, 15, 10 then 5 reps.)

Another example would be to start at 5 reps, work your way up the ladder to XX reps... then back down to 5.

Get creative team!  If you only want to do 2 movements, do something like this...

10 Tricep Dips, recover 30-60 seconds, 2 Pull-ups

8 Dips, recover, 4 Pull-ups

6 Dips, recover, 6 Pull-ups

4 Dips, recover, 8 Pull-ups

2 Dips, recover, 10 Pull-ups.

The sky's the limit guys... you can always DO SOMETHING!

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In this together!

Coach T