I posted this in my challenge thread, but i'll summarize it again here.
I set up a really fun (and intense) obstacle course in our guest bedroom, hallway and living room for my fiancé and I to do together.
We started in the guest room with vigorous calisthenics, in this order (for more movement/higher heart rate): 10 push-ups, 10 crunches, 30 second plank, 10 reverse crunches, 10 supermans, then repeat once.
After that, 20 side lunges, 10 each leg, and 20 forward lunges, 10 each leg.
We have a pull-up bar in the doorway of the guest room so however many pull-ups you can do.
In the hall, I set a kitchen chair at each end, and two barbells in front of me on the floor at one end. In the hallway, do: 5 tricep dips on the chair, then squat jump over the barbells. Turn around and pick up the barbells, and set them back down in front of you. Squat jump over them again, and so on until youre at the other chair. 5 more tricep dips, then squat jumps (or burpees) back to the other chair, tricep dips, squat jumps back, tricep dips. Then, we went into the living room and lifted the couch, then did a 20-sec wall sit, and repeat couch lift and wall sit two more times.
That's the end of the workout, and after that we went back into the guest room for yoga cool down. The cool thing about the at-home obstacle course is that you can get creative with it. Above is just one example, for the layout of my house, but you could condense it to one room easily, and do it on vacation pretty easily. The only equiptment you need is a yoga mat (optional, really, if you can hack it on the floor), and dumbbells or any object with a little weight that you can jump over and then pick up and move. If you don't have access to a couch you can use the dumbbells/heavy object for bicep curls instead of the couch lift.
You can also build your own! Just google at-home workouts and make sure to pick one for each major section of your body, and string them together in a way that gets you moving a little bit. It's fun! And we were both about to throw up after doing it, lol.
Last edited by munchievictim; 04-26-2012 at 03:17 PM.
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