This home bodyweight workout is structured into 3 different rounds.
First Round: Starter Round
Number of exercises: 5 exercise circuit
Reps: 35 seconds of work
Rest: 20 second break
Sets: 1
The goal of the starter round is to elevate your heart rate and get your body and joints warmed up.
After the starter round is completed, you’ll move on to the harder rounds, where the intensity of the workout gets kicked up, and the exercises get progressively more challenging via:
More advanced exercise progressions
Rep times go up
Rest breaks go down
If you’re a beginner, you can stay with the exercises, reps, and rest periods from the starter round, for all 3 rounds.
It’s important to push yourself, but for safety, it’s also important to work within your current fitness level.
Let’s get ready to go.
Starter Round Exercises:
These A1-A5 starter round exercises may seem basic, but be prepared as the exercise intensity increases during the next rounds of the workout.
Get down on the floor with your arms straight, hands just outside shoulder width and directly below your shoulders.
Ensure your body maintains a straight line from your feet all the way up to your head. To keep your body rigid in a straight line, and reduce any sagging, keep your abs, your glutes, your quads, and hamstrings tight throughout the movement.
To lower your body to the ground, bend your elbows until your chest hovers just above the ground.
Contract your chest and triceps to push yourself back up to the beginning position.
Make sure you are breathing properly, by inhaling while lowering, and exhaling while rising back up.
Keep your core tight.
If you can’t complete the push up for the full 35 seconds, rather than stopping, simply drop to your knees and finish the set doing the push up on knees.
While standing with your feet hip width apart, perform the reverse lunge by contracting your core tight to maintain your balance, then stepping back with one leg while lowering your body until your back knee hovers just above the floor with your front knee bent at a 90 degree angle.
Ensure you are keeping your upper torso straight and upright, so your front knees doesn’t lean too forward past your toes.
Press your feet through the ground to bring your back foot back up to standing.
With an athletic hip width stance, slightly bend your knees then bend your elbows at a 90 degree angle while lifting one foot, bending your knee and drawing it behind your other leg with your opposite elbow drawing back to get into a speed skater pose, just like an Olympic athlete.
Take a wide jump laterally with power to the other side, landing on the leg that was bent, and immediately get back into the speed skater pose.
Hold the speed skater position and squat down on one leg to touch the top of your foot with your opposite hand and hold the position for a brief moment.
To help maintain your balance, focus on a spot on the floor.
Jump back to the other side and complete the same reach and hold movement.
That’s one rep. This will help improve balance and leg strength.
With a shoulder width stance begin the squat by first bending at the hips by descending back and down until your hips drop below your knees while keeping the natural arch in your back.
The entire bottom of your foot, especially your heels, should remain in contact with the floor at all times with your knees in line with your toes.
Now power back up by pressing your feet through the ground to rise back up, fully extending your knees and hips and contracting your glutes at the top of the air squat.
Repeat.
Coaching cues:
Do not go up on your tip toes. Focus on keeping the pressure on the entire platform of your feet, especially your heels.
Create tension in your leg muscles by focusing on pressing the floor away from you when standing back up.
Breath in when lowering, then breath out when rising back up.
Get into a traditional pushup position, then bend your elbows and and plant your forearms into the floor by shifting your weight from your hands to your forearms.
Once you’re in the forearm plank position, your body should be in a straight line from your feet to your head, with your elbows directly below your shoulders.
If you notice your hips are sagging or your butt is higher in the air, make sure you’re contracting your abs as tight as possible, as if you’re bracing for someone to punch you in the stomach. Also, keep your glutes, quadriceps, and hamstrings engaged by contracting hard. Lastly, press your forearms powerfully into the ground. This is the key to keeping everything tight and turning your body into a straight line, like a board.
Keep breathing as you hold this movement for the desired time.
If you can’t reach your desired time, do it in intervals, plank for 10 seconds, rest for 5 seconds, etc until you hit your time goal.
That was the first starter round exercise circuit.
Take a 30 second break, then move into the hyperdrive round.
Second Round: Hyperdrive Round
During the hyperdrive round, it’s time to kick it up by increasing the duration of reps, decreasing the rest period, and increasing the challenge of the exercises.
Get in the push up position, with your hands directly below your shoulders, legs straight, and abs turned on.
As you lower into the push up, bring one knee to the outside of your elbow on the same side.
As you push yourself back to the top of the push up, straighten your leg and repeat the same movement with the other side.
That’s one rep.
Coaching cues:
If you try it out, but it’s too difficult, or you can’t complete it for the entire 40 seconds, go back to the standard push up that you completed in the starter round. This is all about progression.
Not only does this target the chest, this exercise also targets the obliques, and helps work on balance.
Remember to create tension by focusing on pushing the floor away from you.
While standing with your feet hip width apart, perform the reverse lunge by contracting your core, then stepping back with one leg while lowering your body until your back knee almost touches the floor.
Ensure you are keeping your upper torso straight and upright.
Press your feet through the ground to stand back up while immediately driving your knee up with power, in front of your body.
Lower your foot back beside your other foot on the floor, then repeat with the opposite leg.
Continue alternating sides for reps or time.
Coaching cues:
If the knee drive is too hard to balance, go back to the completing the reverse lunge from the starter round.
Don’t sit on the sidelines because you can’t do these exercise progressions. It’s important to work within your current fitness capabilities, make every rep count, then progress with your next workout.
With an athletic hip width stance, slightly bend your knees then bend your elbows at a 90 degree angle while lifting one foot, bending your knee and drawing it behind your other leg with your opposite elbow drawing back to get into a speed skater pose, just like an Olympic athlete.
Touch the top of your foot, or the floor by your foot, with your opposite hand, then complete 3 single leg hops while balancing on the same leg.
Then explosively take a wide jump laterally and stick the landing on your outside leg, with your other leg hovering off the ground behind you.
Immediately touch the top of your foot with your opposite hand, then complete another 3 single leg hops.
Continue to repeat for reps or time.
Coaching cues:
In the follow along workout video, I was tapping my foot with the hand on the same side as my leg, which was the wrong arm.Make sure you tap your foot with the opposite arm.
If you mess up or lose your balance, forget about it and keep going.
Try to keep progressing the length of your lateral jumps so you are jumping further a part each rep.
With your feet hip width apart and chest up, lower your body down into a squat by first bending at the hips, followed by the knees, until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
Then with power, explosively push your feet through the floor to jump up as high as you can.
Land softly to cushion to your joints and immediately lower your body into another squat.
Repeat for reps.
Coaching cues:
Focus on landing softly, with your knees already slightly bent. Landing with stiff legs will be too hard on your joints.
A rest break is coming soon, so be sure to give it your all.
When you start to feel the lactic acid burn in your legs, you’ll probably want to stop. But remember, the lactic acid is your friend. It helps get all the fat burning and muscle building hormones running throughout your body.
In other words, you should want to feel the lactic acid, especially since the workout is only 15 minutes. You can push through it, so keep going.
Get into a plank position by planting your forearms into the floor, with your elbows directly underneath your shoulders.
Maintain a tight contraction in your abs, glutes, and hamstrings throughout the movement to keep your back flat, and ensure your hips don’t sag and your butt doesn’t go up into the air. If your hips do sag during the movement, you’re taking the range of motion too far.
Squeeze your glutes, hamstrings, and quads while maintaining a straight line from your head to your feet.
To rock back and forth, push forward and backwards with your forearms and elbows, as you flex and extend your ankles while on your toes.
Return to the starting position. That’s one rep.
Repeat.
Good job, that is the end of the hyperdrive round exercise circuit.
Take a 25 second rest before moving on to the scorcher round.
Third Round: Scorcher Round
I told you the proceeding rounds would be more difficult.
Even though the reps and rest duration stays the same as the hyperdrive round, the exercises will continue to advance in progression.
Trust me, the body fat is being extinguished as we go.
Get into the traditional push up position with your hands planted into the floor below your shoulders.
Keep your body in a straight line as you bend your elbows and lower yourself to the floor.
Once your chest is just a few inches off the floor, explosively push the floor away from you so your hands come off the floor, as you explode up into the air.
Land softly by safely cushioning your joints, then immediately proceed back into another rep.
Focus on keeping your body tight and in a straight line, to prevent your hips from sagging.
Repeat.
Coaching cues:
If this push up variation is too difficult, or you can’t complete it for the entire 40 seconds, go back to the push up that you completed in the previous round.
When you land with your elbows already slightly bent, while immediately lowering into the push up, all the tension will go to the muscles, not your joints.
If you need to take a break to wipe the sweat off your face, do it. It’s all good.
C2. Alternating Reverse Lunge With Knee Drive Jump
While standing with your feet hip width apart, perform the reverse lunge by contracting your core, then stepping back with one leg while lowering your body until your back knee almost touches the floor.
Ensure you are keeping your upper torso straight and upright.
In one continuous motion, press your feet through the ground to jump back up while immediately driving your knee up with power, in front of your body.
Land softly, then lower your foot back beside your other foot on the floor, then repeat with the opposite leg.
Continue alternating sides for reps or time.
Coaching cues:
Since the body is doing a lot of things at one time, this move requires coordination, balance, and also helps to workout your brain.
Not only are you getting leaner, you’re also getting smarter.
This coordination will also help improve your dance skills at the clubs 😉
While standing, balance on your outside leg then explosively take a wide jump laterally and stick the landing on your outside leg. Your other leg should hover off the ground behind you.
Jump back laterally to the other side, this time landing on the opposite leg, in the same speed skater pose.
Jump laterally one more time, stick the landing, then immediately drop to the ground and complete one push up burpee.
Stand back up and complete three more speed skaters, then complete another push up burpee.
Repeat for reps.
Coaching cues:
It looks tough, because it is tough, but I know you can do it.
In the follow along workout video, I was mistakenly going back and forth between the following speed skater variations:
Feel free to stick with the most challenging variation for your fitness level.
In the follow along workout video, I was once again tapping my foot with the hand on the same side as my leg, which was the wrong arm. Make sure you tap your foot with the opposite arm.
Get into a straight arm plank position with your hands directly below your shoulders, feet shoulder width apart, and your body forming a straight line from heels to head.
As fast as you can, while still under control, place one forearm on the ground followed by the other, focusing on keeping your hips square to the ground and your back flat. If you placed a glass of water on your back, it shouldn’t spill during the transition.
Move from the forearm plank back to the straight arm plank and repeat.
Coaching cues:
If you can’t do this for the entire duration of the set, go for as long as you can, then without stopping, regress the movement by completing one of the plank variations from the previous two rounds.
Ensure you are using proper form, then lock it in. Bad form is not acceptable.
That was the scorcher round.
Awesome work, you are killing it.
Take a 25 second break, get a quick drink of water, and get ready because the 45 second torcher round is coming up next.
Last Round: Torcher Round
Number of exercises: 3 exercise circuit
Reps: 15 seconds of work
Rest: 0 second break
Sets: 1
It’s time to go all out for the last 45 seconds, with no breaks.
D1. Rotating Fast Feet Exercise Drill
Reps: 15 seconds of work Rest: 0 second break Sets: 1
Stand up straight, with your feet hip width apart.
Quickly alternate your feet up and down with small and quick steps, staying on the balls of your feet, and pretending like the ground is on fire.
After a few seconds, rotate left or right, and continue with the small and quick steps, then after a few more seconds, rotate the other way.
Focus on keeping your core tight and drive your arms forward and backward like an athlete. This will build more speed and train your feet to move faster.
Keep alternating feet with quick taps until you reach your desired time or reps.
D2. Mountain Climbers
Reps: 15 seconds of work Rest: 0 second break Sets: 1
Stand with your feet hip width apart then squat down by bending at your hips, tap the floor for both hands, then jump into the air and rotate your body to land 180 degrees from the original position.
Immediately lower into another squat and repeat by tapping the floor with both hands.
Continue circling around, or rotate back the other way, for time or reps.
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Man, this really awesome. “Damn! That looks good” I only survived till half
way on this video. These exercise really awesome which can make me sweat
through my pants in this winter. Keep going man!!!
Is it possible to increase muscle and mass with body weight training only?
or you just will be more shapely and leaner? and should i do bodyweight
exercises fast and many or slowly and only a certain amount? #AskBGTV
Great workout, I do it ALL the time.
Man, this really awesome. “Damn! That looks good” I only survived till half
way on this video. These exercise really awesome which can make me sweat
through my pants in this winter. Keep going man!!!
best body weight workout ever!
That killed me, good work
What’s up with the lines floating around the video??
Love that shirt have any long sleeve??
Hey +Brad Gouthro, which timer app do you use to control your workout?
Is it possible to increase muscle and mass with body weight training only?
or you just will be more shapely and leaner? and should i do bodyweight
exercises fast and many or slowly and only a certain amount? #AskBGTV
This is great! Thanks for the cold weather workout!
sempre proveitoso acompanhar seu trabalho brad!
Dang your a good trainer!
this killed me ha great at home workout!