No Time to Get Your Sweat On?

So the other day I was in a bit of a rush, my boyfriend was bowling in the Michigan Masters, and I needed to get a quick work out in. One of the hardest things for me is trying to fit everything I want to do into my day. Here is my typical day wake up at 6:30 am to go to the gym, workout for about thirty minutes, get ready for work, then I work from 8 am to 5 pm, most of the time. Now my day does not end there, I then go pick up my dog, go home and make dinner, and sit down to do homework. So on Saturday I got all my homework done for school and rushed off to the gym. Now everyone knows this time of year there is a lot of people in the gym. That being said I had no choice but to do a quick cardio work out. Yes it sucked but that was the only option I had, seeing how almost every weight bench and machine was taken. I didn’t just want to give up on working out that day because I knew that I would not be eating the best the rest of the day. So I hopped on a treadmill (dread mill) and did two minutes of warm up. For me this is a steady walk, just to get my blood flowing. After that is when it gets difficult, I began doing sprints. 

This is where you run at a fast pace for 40 seconds then hop your feet to the side of the treadmill and rest for 20 seconds. I normally do this for 20 minutes and do a two minute cool down of a steady pace again. 

As you can see in the image above I was tracking my heart rate with my Polar H7 Heart Rate Sensor, and it tells me how long I was working out for and how many calories I burned. I started tracking it early because I just got it and was playing around with it. You can also see in the image that at the end my heart rate dropped, that’s where I began my cool down.

So I can see how for most people say that they don’t have time to work out. But hey guess what we all have the same 24 hours in a day, it’s all about how you use your time. One thing that I always go to when I don’t have a lot of time, or heck I just don’t want to wake up as early, I do a quick 30 minuet work out by doing super sets or circuit training. I don’t know how many people go to Planet Fitness, but they have a great 30 minuet circuit that even beginners can do.

A Great 30 Minute Workout

SUPERSET

1.       BARBELL CURL

a.       2 warm-up sets of 10 reps

2.       LYING TRICEPS PRESS

a.       2 warm-up sets of 10 reps

SUPERSET

3.       BARBELL CURL

a.       3 sets of 10 reps

4.       LYING TRICEPS PRESS

a.       3 sets of 10 reps

SUPERSET

5.       HAMMER CURLS

a.       3 dropsets to failure

6.       SEATED TRICEPS PRESS

a.       3 dropsets to failure

SUPERSET

7.       STANDING BICEPS CABLE CURL

a.       1 set of 25 reps

8.       TRICEPS PUSHDOWN

a.       1 set of 25 reps