This 10 Minute Circuit is part of our “not Pilates” series! Develop your strength and challenge your endurance.
Bring your Light Free Weights too!
This fun strength circuit features waists, legs, cardio and strength! It’s pretty tough, and we think you may be surprised at how efficient this workout will be!
We will begin with some light free weights, and a waist warmup. Reach and lengthen through your waist as you pull upward and reach. After some nice arm circles, we will take an exercise know as the “wood chopper,” where the lunging section helps us to strengthen our thighs, and then pulling up and twisting through our waists again allows us to work the oblique abdominal muscles, just like in the warm up section. That will be followed by cardio strength as we jump and plié from having our feet positioned right under our shoulders to a wide parallel second. Keep your chest lifted and your arms is as you deeply bend in your knees to strengthen your legs.
We follow that leg and cardio section with shoulder work, again using our free weights. Strong shoulders are a must for good posture and upper body balance. We bring the workout home strongly with a standing arm section to target biceps, shoulders, and upper backs, and we finish with one last strength section – you guessed it, we are back to those strong plié jump squats!
