Monday, March 28, 2011

Upper Body Circuit Workouts

This week I was already itching to change things up.  The weather had been so nice last week (not looking too nice this week though) that I thought I'd design a playground workout.  I also found an upper body circuit with dumbbells that we are going to do in the gym this week also, depending on the weather.

Upper Body Circuit- Playground Focus

I found the exercises used for the first work-out from the 2 sites below. 
Parent's magazine Playground Workout & Women's Health "Take It Outside" Workout
The park has a fitness obstacle course, so I might make a few modifications as we are going through.  Most regular playgrounds don't have walls to jump over, so that exercise might have to be taken out.

Do a total of 3 circuits.  Bear crawl or crabwalk from station to station.  Do not rest between sets, you can rest for 3 minutes between each circuit.

1) Bench Dip, reps 15
2) Standing Jungle Gym Push-Up, reps 15
3) Monkey Up, reps 10
4) Jungle Gym Pullup, reps 15
5) Monkey Bars, reps 1 (across and back)
6) Wall Climb, reps 5 (both walls)
Upper Body Circuit- Dumbbell Focus

I found the workout below in the February/March Issue of Muscle & Fitness Hers.






Here is a link to the stixy site to download templates of all of our work-outs:
Peach, Out!!!

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