Want your workouts to be more fun, intense, challenging, exciting, and effective? The following fatloss workouts tips by Crunch are easy to incorporate and will transform your workout into a more dynamic routine that will burn more calories and keep you motivated.
Incorporate Active Recovery
Nothing is more boring and wastes your valuable time more than sitting around between sets when you’re strength training. If you are interested in burning major fat get up and get moving. Do a giant set of double crunches, lying leg raises, and bicycles. Try a set of jump squats, modified pushups, step-ups, squats with a cross-crunch or jump rope. Anything that keeps your heart rate up and keeps you moving between sets will make your strength training workout more cardiovascular and burn more calories than what you normally do. It also makes your workout go by faster.
Work two, three, or even four body parts with a combination of exercises at once and you’re heart rate will go through the roof. It’s also a great way to increase intensity without adding weight. Moves to try include:
Stiff legged deadlift with a bent over row using barbell or dumbbells
Squat with overhead press using barbell or dumbbells
Walking lunges with bicep curls and Arnold press using dumbbells
Split lunges with side raises using dumbbells
Deadlift (overhand grip) to bicep curls to overhead press with barbell
This may seem complicated but just break it down into parts and you’ll get the hang of it. Note than certain body parts will fatigue before others ie. shoulders will fatigue faster than legs, so stop working the burned out muscles but continue with the other or others. Learn the best way to combine exercises from: Lean, Long & Strong: The 6-Week Strength-Training, Fat-Burning Program for Women
Try Partner Assisted Exercises
Exercises that require two people are more fun and can be great for getting out of a rut. Try decline crunches with medicine ball toss, squats with medicine ball toss, back to back oblique twists rotating a medicine ball, planks with hands on a balance ball while your partner punches the ball (great for increasing core stability and balance), instead of using boxing gloves and pads one person can hold a balance ball while the other punches it or kicks it. You can also make ordinary exercises more challenging with a partner. While one person does bench dips or body squats the other can add manual resistance by pressing down on the shoulders on the way up, down, or both. If you’re not quite ready to move up to the next size weight a partner could add resistance to your side raises, seated overhead presses, leg curls, leg extensions, bench press, or virtually any exercise on the negative, positive or both.
Using every second of your time in the gym more effectively will help you to reduce body fat and lose weight at a rapid pace while gaining serious cardio endurance. Just remember to be safe by maintaining good form. Ready to try this? Get started with fatloss workouts.
