Suicidal Sweat Workout

If your workout is getting stale, and you need a new challenge, the Suicidal Sweat Workout" should get the sweat flowing. Zuzana starts off with what she calls a jump squat/push-up combo exercise, but it could also be classified as a burpee variation.

5BX Plan: 11 Minutes a Day to Total Fitness

The Five Basic Exercises (5BX) Plan is an exercise program developed for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) by Bill Orban in the late 1950s. The plan was innovative in two respects. First, it did not require access to specialized equipment. Secondly, the plan only required 11 minutes per day to be spent on the exercises. The plan can be downloaded for free.

This simple and straightforward exercise plan was created by the Royal Canadian Air Force back in the 1960’s but has stood the test of time, and is still very relevant now.

This comprehensive body-sculpting and fitness program takes just 11 minutes a day. The exercises require no gym or equipment, and can be done almost anywhere such as at home, or in a hotel room. Read more

Perverted Punishment Workout

For the Perverted Punishment Workout, you will need a timer, a pull-up bar, and a jump rope. You can check the description of this workout with pictures for each exercise here.

Hindu Strength Training

This video demonstrates ancient Indian ground exercises, as practiced by Hindu wrestlers, for strengthening the body. For the most part, these exercises use your own body weight for resistance. They also practiced with Indian Clubs (Gada and Joris) of various sizes and weights, as well as the wrestler’s pole (Mallakhamb).

Advanced Bodyweight Exercise Workout

This advanced workout by personal trainer Stephen Cabral is a quick workout using only your body weight.

Brutal 500 Rep Workout

If you're looking for a burnout workout, Zuzana at BodyRock.tv demonstrates a brutal five hundred rep workout - ten exercises of fifty reps each.

Today’s workout was awesome! Very intense, but also quite long. It took me exactly 35 minutes and 55 seconds. It might sound strange, but I was actually enjoying the pain from the burn. Now I feel that I really deserve the active rest tomorrow. So what was this workout all about? I did 10 different exercises and 50 reps for each of them. It is a time challenge so try to be moving through the exercises without taking any long breaks. What slowed me down were the push ups and although I started with regular push ups – I had to switch to the easier variations. The turkish get ups are also quite brutal and took me the most amount of time. Read more

An Exercise Routine That You Can Do Anywhere

Lea Woodward describes an exercise routine suitable for both men and women that can be done anywhere. She even tells how to change it from a strength routine into a cardio routine.

... What if you could do an exercise routine that helped you:

• Lose weight
• Improve muscle tone & firm up
• Improve your strength

…and requires no equipment whatsoever (except perhaps a gym mat or beach towel). Like the sound of that?

The following is a routine that you can do that takes no more than 20-30 minutes and is suitable for almost all levels (except if you’re a bodybuilder trying to pack on the muscle). Read more

A Very Advanced Push-Up Routine

Hit-Man does this very advanced push-ups routine after his workout. Can you even do the first exercise, let alone the entire routine?

The Bodyweight 100 Workout

For a change in your regular bodyweight exercise routine, try the Bodyweight 100 challenge. These compound exercises will burn a lot of fat and calories and will keep your metabolism increased for hours after your workout.

The Bodyweight 100 challenge was featured in Men's Health magazine in January 2008. This workout is the initial stage in a much longer and more challenging program called the Bodyweight 500. But that's getting ahead of ourselves.

First, let's take a look at the Bodyweight 100 workout. Do your regular workouts on Monday and Wednesday, and then try the 100 workout on a Friday or Saturday. Read more

A Whole-Body Calisthenics Routine

Daniel at Home Calisthenics outlines an excellent whole-body calisthenics routine which takes you from beginner to advanced levels.

A good friend of mine recently explained to me that the his time for retoxing had long over run, and that he now wants to get back into training. I pointed him in the direction of this blog to learn a few of the basic calisthenics exercises, in reply to this he asked, "Do you have a routine i can follow?" This is when it dawned on me that i haven't published a post that outlines a routine. Here is that post.

When i train at home i like to make the most of the time available so my routines have minimal rest periods. Instead of rest periods i prefer to exercise a muscle group immediately followed by an unrelated muscle group. This isn't advisable for everybody so i will outline a breakdown of work/rest ratios. Read more