My Current Workout Routine (you should try it too!)

I am one week into my new workout routine and I am loving it! Because of that, I wanted to share it with you guys and maybe you will want to try one or all of these workouts too.

The six days a week routine

As always, my workout routine involves strength training and cardio. I do two days of upper, two days of lower and two days of cardio with abs. The strength training days include cardio, too.

My week looks like this: Upper body/cardio and abs/lower body, rest, upper body/cardio and abs/lower body.

For the strength training days, I move quickly between the exercises after a few minutes of cardio. This ensures I get in quality workout sessions that burn a good amount of calories.

I came up with a great cardio ladder workout that really scorches some calories. It is tough while I am doing it but I feel really refreshed afterwards.

Without further ado, here are my workouts:

Upper body

I grouped up the exercises like the Fitness Blender workout I did recently. The exercise moves are completed without rest (or very minimal). Each group is done two times.

Group 1- Chest and back

1. Three minutes of cardio (jumping jacks, high knees, mountain climbers etc.)
2. Chest press
3. Bent over rows
4. Alternating chest flyes
5. Back flyes
6. Close arms chest press
7. Close arms bent over rows
8. Regular push ups
9. Staggered hand push ups

Group 2- Shoulders and lats

1. Three minutes of cardio
2. Overhead press
3. Pull overs
4. Alternating front raises
5. Alternating pull overs
6. Lateral raises
7. Arm circles (20 seconds one way, 20 seconds the other way)
8. Hindu push ups

Group 3: Biceps and triceps

1. 3 minutes of cardio
2. Single arm triceps extension (left or right)
3. Hammer curls
4. Single arm triceps extension (with other arm)
5. Alternating bicep curls
6. Skull crushers
7. Triceps dips
8. Staggered hand push ups

According to my fitness watch, my calories burned for this workout was 340.

Cardio and abs

Cardio ladder workout: Each group is done two times. No rest between exercise moves in the groups.

Group 1-

1. Three minutes of cardio (jumping jacks, high knees, mountain climbers etc.)
2. Two feet jump through
3. Right foot only jump through
4. Left foot only jump through

Group 2-

1. Three minutes of cardio
2. Side-to-middle jump through
3. Two feet shuffle in each square
4. Straight run through

Group 3-

1. Three minutes of cardio
2. Side shuffle
3. in-in-out feet jump through
4. Crossover (see here: https://www.yourhousefitness.com/blog/the-crossover-karoke-exercise)

Group 4-

1. Three minutes of cardio
2. Repeat of any of the other moves
3. Repeat of any of the other moves
4. Repeat of any of the other moves

Abs: Each exercise done two times for 10-12 reps.

1. Weighted crunches
2. Bicycle crunches
3. Pike crunches

According to my fitness watch, my calories burned during this workout was 496.

Lower body

Each of these groups is done two times with no rest between the exercises in them.

Group 1-

1. Three minutes of cardio
2. Regular deadlifts
3. Squat to reverse lunges
4. Weighted bridges

Group 2-

1. Three minutes of cardio
2. Legs together squats
3. Walking lunges
4. Plie squats

Group 3-

1. Three minutes of cardio
2. Stiff legged deadlifts
3. Static lunges
4. Single leg glute bridges

Group 4-

1. Three minutes of cardio
2. Side lunges
3. Curtsy lunges
4. Inner thigh raises with weight on legs

According to my fitness watch, my calories burned for this workout was 323.

I love this routine!

So there is the routine I am doing for the next five or so weeks. The first week of this went really well and I am very satisfied with how I arranged the exercises for each day.

Thanks for reading this and if you decide to try one of these workouts-let me know how you like it!

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