45-minutes a day is what I challenged myself to when I began this workout routine a couple of days back. It’s not necessary to prolong the workouts in terms of minutes, but you could rather increase the intensity of each session, as 15 push ups become 20 push ups per set, and other similar ways of upping the game.
On Day 2 of my Lockdown Workout Challenge, I fell around a minute and a half short of my target of 45 minutes, unable to complete the third round. On Day 3, I began with a sore body because the selection of exercises has been done in such a way to ensure that every muscle in my body is being worked on during those 45 minutes.
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There’s a lot of stress on ensuring you’re doing a good 15-minute warm-up as you’re going to need those muscles ready to perform these exercises. I followed the same routine, picking a random selection of exercises that work on legs, abs, chest, triceps and everything else possible. Day 3 workout:
- Bench dips – 20x
- Wide grip push-ups – 15x
- Wall squat – 30 secs
- Lumbar crunches – 20x
- Push ups – 14x
I’ve got to admit that when I began the isometric wall squat a couple of days back, I could barely get past the 25-second squat. Today however, I got past 2 sets of 30-seconds each. However, there was not much of the third set in today’s workout because I may have overdone the working of the triceps in this routine.
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The bench dips work on your triceps and the wide grip push ups do the same, so the back-to-back workout on the triceps really took a toll on me, ending it here in Round 3, and concluding the workout at 38:37 minutes. Satisfying overall especially since I decided to go really wide in the wide-grip push ups – nearly double as wide as the original push ups grips.
You can feel the pressure in every rep and I continued till I couldn’t lift myself up anymore. Of all the exercises in my 21-day challenge so far, the bench dips was the first time some ‘equipment’ was needed, but I’m sure those of you who’d like to try can make do with your bed, sofa or something similar at home. For more updates on this journey, stay tuned to ReadScoops.com.
