Easter only comes round once a year.
I LOVE chocolate.
I mean, unconditionally love chocolate.
Which, as you can imagine, means I F@$%ING love Easter. And of course I took full advantage of getting to eat chocolate all day... possibly even the night before Easter (I made my family Cadbury's mini egg cookies and Creme Egg brownie cupcakes so naturally whilst making them I ate most of the mixture), this was followed by a big roast on Sunday and by chocolate egg dessert or should I say 'desserts' and then Monday, more chocolate, hot cross buns and ice cream (what, it was hot?!).
Now, it's a few days after Easter, you may have some chocolates still loitering around or you may have scoffed them already but now it's time to get back on track.
This is my chocolate body blitz workout to get you back in the gym.
The workout consists of 5 compound movements (exercises which recruit two or more muscles) with quick bursts of exercises instead of taking rest periods betweens sets. Each compound movement will be done twice doing 10 heavy reps (this means for lunges you will do four sets; two each side). Take 10-20 seconds rest when moving to do the secondary exercise - if you take ten seconds to set up the next move, that's your break over! Try working between your compound exercises for at least 20 seconds and if you feel you can move up try 30/40/50/60 seconds.
Warm up
2-4 sprints : 20-60 seconds sprinting followed by 60 seconds rest.
The compounds:
1) Squat
2) Deadlift
3) Clean and press
4) Lunge
5) Bench press
Insert any of the following between lifts (and add your own!):
- Mountain climbers
- Jumping jacks
- Jumping squats
- Jumping
- Ski jumps
- Press ups
- Box jumps
- Sprints
- Step ups
- High knees
- Burpees
- Skipping
- Quick rows
- Bike
- Chin ups
- Dips
- Steel bag/medicine ball throws
- Battle ropes
- Alternate froggers
- Broad jumps