The Blizzard Workout

This weekend, in Maryland, we were hit with a blizzard, leaving many of us stuck in the house with nothing to do but sit around and eat. The only exercise most of us are getting is shoveling snow, which in itself is fantastic exercise. You are burning about 300 calories an hour handling that shovel, however this statistic is not cut and dry because while shoveling we are constantly taking breaks when talking to neighbors, getting a rest, etc.

In any case, if you're all done shoveling, or you are just tired of the cold and the mess, I have created this in-home workout you can do while you're in your living room watching TV. The mixture of cardio intervals combined with strength training each muscle group is going to burn lot of those "blizzard" or "superbowl" calories while creating lean muscle at the same time.

You don't even need a lot (or any) equipment. So there is no excuse to miss a workout just because you can't get your car to the gym in the snow. All you need here is a little bit of room and about 30 minutes.

Another great thing about this workout is it is tailored to pretty much any fitness level, it's not too hard, but not too easy, just intense. I personally do this workout on days when I can't get to the gym, and I just did it today.I don't know about you, but after being snowed in all weekend coupled with the superbowl yesterday, I really needed it.

If you don't know what something is, feel free to message me and I will explain it.

But without further ado:

*I've broken the workout up into 4 cycles, 2 sets per cycle, then one set per cycle. We hit every muscle group, get cardio blasts in, all the while finishing up in about 30 minutes.

*The idea here is to superset each exercise, with no breaks in between cycles.

cycle 1

*shadowboxing 2 min.
*simulated jump rope 1 min.
*squats 20x
*pushups 20x
(2 sets)

cycle 2

*jumping jacks 50x
*situps 20x
*walk stairs 2 min.
*dumbbell rows 20x (no dumbbells? use soup cans)
(2 sets)

cycle 3

*mountain climbers 20x
*pushups 5x
*stationary lunges 10x (5 each leg with dumbbells or soup cans)
*one arm rows 10x (5 each arm-dumbbells or soup cans)
*one arm shoulder press 10x (5 each arm,-dumbbell or soup can)
*shadowbox 1 min.
(1 set)

cycle 4-core concentration

*reverse crunch 15x/supermans 6x
*cross crunch 20x/table top 20 sec. hold
(2 sets)
*russian twists 1 min.
(1 set)

*cooldown and stretch