My Three Part Workout

Let me preface this by saying, I am not a personal trainer by any stretch of the imagination. Nor am I fitness guru nor a physician.

I have a simple three exercise workout routine that I’ve been thinking over and I’m going to give it a try. And I’ll let you all know what type of success or failure I have with it.

The Routine
Alternate between 5 push ups and 5 crunches/sit ups moving as fast as I can, no break in between exercises. Do the 5 push ups, roll over and do the crunches/sit ups, roll over back to push ups and so on. Do this for 5 minutes straight. Follow with a 5 minute run. Doing this twice a day for 3 days a week will give me a total of 60 minutes of exercise out a week.

Now as I’ve stated before I don’t know for certain that this over simplified workout will give me any real benefit but I am going to try it for one month and I’ll let you all know how it has affected me over all.

I came up with this workout because of a need for overall physical training with limited time to do so. Push ups will help to strengthen upper back, shoulders, arms, and chest. While the Crunches/Sit ups will help to strengthen abdominals and lower back. Running will help to improve over all cardiac health as well as legs and gluts. This covers the major muscle groups (as I understand them) and gives one set of muscles a rest while the others are working. And by keeping the workout constant and quick it helps to keep the cardiac output up and the calories burning.