Here’s Luann’s choice for one of her best family workouts. Luann Abrams is an ACE certified personal trainer who focuses on family fitness. She trains clients and teaches family fitness classes in her community. You can always find fun family fitness ideas at her blog, Training For Fun or follow her on Twitter at @Trainforfun.

Family Workout Routine:

Find a place to run in your house–a hallway works great. If the weather is nice take it outside in your yard or on the sidewalk. Run back and forth chasing each other (for the little kids) or timing each other (for the older kids) while incorporating the following sports conditioning moves:

High Knees – Stand straight and lift your knees up to hip-level as you run.

Butt Kicks – Hit your butt with your heels as you run. Land softly on the balls of your feet.

Jump Skip – Jump and drive your bent knee straight up as you skip forward, exaggerating your natural arm movements.

Walking Lunges – Step forward with your first leg landing heel first. Lower body by bending both knees until back knee nearly touches the floor. Lift yourself up using both legs and step forward and repeat with the opposite leg.

Ski jumps – Jump along an imaginary line down the middle of your course. Starting on one side with knees slightly bent and feet angled at about 45 degrees toward the line, jump over the line turning so knees and toes are at a 45 degree angle toward the line on the other side. Jump to one end and then repeat jumping backwards to the other end of your course.

Jumps – Just jump! Remember to land softly, which means you have to use your muscles to slow the momentum of your lowering body and not lockout your knees. Add an obstacle, or several, that you have to jump over.

Stairs – If you have stairs, you have a built-in workout machine. Running up and down the stairs two-at-a-time, sideways, and backwards is a phenomenal workout. Carry a weight (or your kid!) to really amp up your calorie burn. You may want to skip this with younger kids until they are sure-footed.

Drop and Give Me – At either end of your course, have a mat or towel where you perform a different exercise such as push-ups, crunches, or tricep dips, each time through.

Feel free to leave comments or ask me questions. Have a great workout and next time you need to squeeze in a workout into your busy week, don’t forget to include your best workout buddy’s – your family!

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Warm up:
- Brisk walk or jog for 6 minutes

Endurance Run Workout:

- Run 3 minutes (70-80% of your max) at 1.5 – 2.5% incline
- Brisk walk 3 minutes at 10 to 15% incline
- Side steps/hops for 3 minutes; 1 and 1/2 min on both sides at 3.o% incline
- Jog 3 minutes (50% of your max) at 5 to 6.0% incline for a total of 1 mile (repeat if needed)

- Run 3 minutes (80-90% of your max) at 1.5 – 2.5% incline
- Brisk walk 3 minutes at 10 to 15% incline
- Side steps/hops for 3 minutes; 1 and 1/2 min on both sides at 3.o% incline
- Jog 3 minutes (60% of your max) at 5 to 6.0% incline for a total of 1 mile (repeat if needed)

- Rules; no hands/ no holding on! Time yourself and post your results! Beginners, modify and scale the speed and incline if needed.

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- Repeat the circuit 3 times. Beginners modify and scale to fit your level.

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- 25 box jumps (Men = 24″ high W = 15″-20″ high)

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- 50 back extensions (hold one second each)

- 25 pull ups (Beginners / women = 10, use band if necessary)

- Do the circuit 2 times! …What was your time?

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Warm up: 400 hundred meter run (1 lap around the track)

Full Body Blast Workout Routine:

- 5 minutes pull ups
- 1 min break
- 5 minutes Body weight bench presses (Beginners = 45 lb bar to 1/2 your weight)
- 1 min break
- 5 Minutes deadlifts
- 1 min break
- 5 minutes Body weight back squats (Beginners = 45 lb bar to 1/2 your weight)

In these exercises do as many reps as you can in the 5 minutes time frame. Use the 1 min break to record your reps in each work out. 20 minutes of hell for a Full body blast! How many reps did you do?

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- Jumping Lunges for one minute no rest
- 1 minute rest
- Repeat burpee and lunges for 10 minutes

- Let me know how your workout goes! What was your time?

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Workout Routine:

- with 135lbs, do 4 minutes of the following:
1x Snatch
1x Burpee
2x Snatch
2x Burpee
3x Snatch
3x Burpee
4x Snatch
4x Burpee
- and so on for max # of rounds that you can do in 4 minutes. Beginners lower the weight to 65-95 lbs

- Take one minute rest then repeat the entire workout in reverse for time. Try to match your 4 minutes! Post your time and the weight that you used. Share with a friend (below) and compare your times!

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