7 Short & Intense Holiday Workouts

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The Holidays are hectic and can crush your time and energy like nothing else.

You THINK you're going to train and before you know it, you're in a sea of madness at the mall shopping for a pair of socks for Uncle Johnny.

That being said, I am making this article short and sharing with you 7 SHORT workouts to crush during the remaining days of 2016.

If you're like me, you are NOT fun to be around if you wound up missing a planned training session. Well, now you have NO excuses and neither do I.

Each training session will take you 15 minutes or less.

Note: Warm up properly before each training session.

Day 1:

100 KB Swings Heavy.

I Performed these in my cold garage wearing just shorts.

Working on some cold exposure, this was done in a few short minutes.

You can even do these outdoors if you want to test the cold weather exposure + breathing.

Day 2:

Squat.

3 x 5 moderate weight to prepare.....

Then, choose a weight to Gut Check yourself or a 20 rep set of squats.

This Video will Fire You UP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHiNBCs0Pgc

Day 3:

10 Minutes of MAX Work:

A) Dips / Push Ups

B) Pull Ups / Recline Row

C) Squat Jump / Lunge Jump

Day 4:

400 Mtr Farmer Walk

Use dumbbells or kettlebells

Day 5:

1) Burpees x 90 sec. x Max Reps

2) Deadlift: Work up to a Heavy 2 - 3 rep set

3) Then go lighter for 2 x 10-15 tough reps.

Day 6:

1A) Push Ups 10 x 10

1B) Walking Lunges 10 x 10 each leg

Day 7:

  1. Any Clean & Press Variation 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 reps (Use Barbell, Kettlebells, Sandbag, etc)
  2. Run 5 Minutes x Max Effort

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Mind Training:

Read up On The Iceman and spend a few minutes on the breathing techniques to help calm and relax the mind and body.

It's amazing what a few short minutes of his breathing technique can do to quiet your mind and de-stress yourself.

You can Find More info on Wim Hof's breathing and meditation inside his book, The Way of The Iceman, click HERE for Details

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2 Responses

  1. Thank you Zach! Will hit the KB swings in my shed! Sometimes I forget that 100 swings or 1/4 mile of carries is so much better than ZERO swings and/or carries…

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