20 Minutes
March 28, 2010 by Joe Gigantino
Is your excuse that you don’t have enough time to workout? How about, if it only took 20 minutes to get a killer fat burning and muscle gaining workout? This is a 20 minute workout routine; with 12 minutes of work and 8 minutes of rest.
Warm up: 1 mile jog/run
Full Body Workout Routine:
- In 3 minutes do as many sets as you can of:
- 7 reps of Sumo Dead lift High Pulls
- 7 reps of Thrusters
- Advanced use 95 LBS. Women use 45-65 LBS. Beginners scale as needed or use a lighter bar.
- After the 3 minutes of work, rest 2 minutes and then start again. Keep track of your sets, within the 3 minutes. If you don’t complete 7 reps, write down the number of reps you did. For example, if you do 3 sets and only 5 Sumo Dead lift High Pulls then you would score 3 sets, 5 reps for that circuit. Once you are done with all 4 circuits add up your sets and post.
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Let’s see…
30 min on the Elyptical while maintaining the appropriate HR
full body lifting routine…unless I see something more interesting to do.
Ending with 100 body squats – I love it when I it’s difficult to sit down
Total 60 minute w/o…I’ll report back tonight when I’m done.
Thanks Joe…I love this sight and your motivation and inspiration!!!
Nice job Cheryl! Yes, funny how we love that kind of pain! Thanks glad you like it
nice workout Joe, just 2 exercises will definitely get the heart rate up and leave you wiped!
Yes! Thanks… I love it!
Great information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!