Cardio Boosting HIT and Plyo Workout

Today’s workout is from Leslie Suess, a two time winner of our Annual Bootcamp Ideas Competition (2017 and 2018). Here’s a workout she shared with us on BootCraft last month.

This workout works a bit like a roller coaster of intensity. It will keep your clients challenged without burning them out too soon in the workout.

Cardio Accelerator

Length: 30 minutes

Equipment needed: Potentially dumbbells

This drill can be ran indoors or outdoors. You can use equipment or nothing at all. Sky is the limit! I do both. Outside I have a medium sized hill and a bench. Indoors I have a track, stairs, bike, and access to dumbbells. For an outdoor workout substitute any cardio move in place of track or stairs.

For this workout your participants will perform 2 minutes of a slow cardio based movement i.e., Jog/Walk followed by 20 repetitions of a high intensity plyometric move.

When done with the plyometric, they will immediately perform 2 minutes of a fast cardio move ie: Sprint., then finish with a low intensity set of 20 reps.

This repeats and gets harder along the way.

Indoors use track, stairs or bike for the running components.

Exercises:

Complete all exercises below with no rest:

2 minutes Jog or Walk around track
20 Jump Squats
2 minute Sprints
20 Prisoner or Goblet Squats

2 minute Walk up and down stairs
20 Plyometric Push Ups
2 minute stair Sprint
20 regular Push Ups or Dumbbell Flies

2 minute cadence of 95 RPM Spin Bike
20 Jump Lunges
2 minute Bike Sprint
20 regular Lunges

2 minutes Side Squat around track (switch lead every 4 steps or corners)
20 Dip Jack (do a Dip and as you ascend do a Jack with legs)
2 minute Shuffle
20 regular Dips or Kickbacks

2 minute Skip-a-Step Squat on stairs
20 quick Abdominal Tuck Lifts
2 minute Box Hop up stairs
20 Double Leg/Arm Jack Knife Reaches

2 minute Standing Climb on bike
20 Burpees
2 minute Sprinting Climb
20 Deconstructed Burpees

Optional: Repeat more rounds for a longer workout.

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Kyle Wood

Kyle Wood created Bootcamp Ideas in 2010 when he was hunting around on the internet for workout ideas. He ran a successful bootcamp in Victoria, Australia and spends his spare time managing this site, adventuring (or lazying) with his wife and find new ways to make bootcamps even better.