Tough Conditioning Workout

Tough Conditioning Workout

I did this tough conditioning workout today – it is everything a conditioning workout should be. Simple, high intensity and straight to the point. No messing around with dozens of exercises – keep it simple and make it brutal! This is how you shed fat – forget hours on the treadmill!

Tough Conditioning Workout…

• 8 x 40m Prowler Sprints (45 seconds rest in between each)
• 5 x 30 second alternating arm rope waves
• 5 x 30 seconds heavy kettle bell swings

It was a brutally tough conditioning workout. I wore my Polar FT4 Men’s Heart Rate Monitor and Sports Watch and checked the results – my heart rate peaked at 191bpm – pretty high considering I’m nearly 31! This gives an idea as to the intensity of this conditioning workout.

The workout was made tougher because of the short rest periods. This is key to making a simple conditioning workout effective – when the rest periods become too long the work intensity drops, rendering the whole workout an (almost) waste of time.

Conditioning workouts require maximum effort. They aren’t easy, and they aren’t always nice but the results from regular, high intensity effort are well worth the 20-40 minutes or so that it takes to do them! If you are serious about getting into good shape and improving your athleticism, you absolutely HAVE to be adding at least a weekly tough conditioning workout to your schedule.

At present, I am doing two tough conditioning workouts per week – a prowler-based one and a circuit class with my Handy Plan group in Stockport.

There are plenty of ways you can do a tough conditioning workout, this is just one of them. I will be posting more of my workouts over the coming weeks, giving people an idea of the work I am doing both in terms of getting my personal training clients into shape and myself into the kind of condition I need to do a charity event this year!

What kind of tough conditioning workouts are you doing?