Try This Crazy Fat-Burning Workout…
A uniquely different style of cardio-combo-weight-training workout
by Mike Geary, Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Nutrition Specialist
I just have a couple quick, yet cool tricks for you today for workout modifications that can help you break training plateaus.
Idea #1 - The weights / cardio high intensity combo workout…
This is a totally different way to structure your workouts and is great for breaking a plateau and getting new results.
Most people either do a session of “cardio exercise” before or after their workout or on different days altogether.
You already know my opinion on boring slow pace cardio so I won’t go into that today… BUT, try this workout for really interesting variety!
How you do this workout is to alternate short 1-minute bursts of high intensity cardio work in between weight training sets.
So for example, let’s say that you’re doing 4 sets of pullups or 4 sets of bench press…. well, in between the weight training sets, you do any type of cardio at a high intensity for 1 minute.
This 1 minute burst of cardio could be a 1 min blast at high speed on the treadmill, could be sprinting around a track if you have a track at your gym, or could be grabbing a jump rope and banging out a super high speed 1 min of jump roping between sets.
So your exercises are broken down like this:
weight training set #1
60 seconds high intensity cardio
weight training set #2
60 seconds high intensity cardio
weight training set #3
60 seconds high intensity cardio
etc, etc
new exercise weight training set #1
60 seconds high intensity cardio
new exercise weight training set #2
60 seconds high intensity cardio
etc, etc
This a tough style of workout and burns a TON of calories. If you find your workouts need a new boost, give this a try, and you’ll be shocked how hard this works you.
