Routine suggestions wanted.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:21 pm
Hello all. I was writing to get a shovelglove routine set up, I need some suggestions please.
First, a little background. I had been a yoyo excerciser for a couple years untill about a year and half ago when I started taking kickboxing classes. Since these were offered at a gym I began to go there regularly, but didnt really enjoy it and just stuck with it to get better at kickboxing (which I loved). Now the kickboxing classes where to meet the pe requirement at the community college I attended so when I finished that semester I began looking for ways to work out at home since I could afford a gym mebership not offered through the school/class. I hit upon shovelglove and did it for a few months and loved it, but eventually grew bored. Then I started a new routine of bodyweight exercises and stuck with that for a few months.
In August I transferred from community college to university. Between the much tougher workload, and my (now) one year old son, and the desire to get out meet people my exercise dwindled to a few trips to the pool a month. Recently I ve got back into it, and Im looking to adapt my old bodyweight routine to combine with shovelglove without overdoing it. This is mostly out of a concern that shovelglove never really toned the core or lower body like I wanted. So, here is routine:
Upperbody-Pushups, pullups, chinups
Core-Crunches, situps, jackknifes
Lower body-Squats or hindu squats
I do three sets of 20 each, alternating depending on mood, and then a miniset of 10. I try to add 2 reps to each set every few weeks but keep the mini set at 10. In addition, I run a few times a week.
I want to add shovelglove everyday (mostly I just do 7 reps of each move for the 14 mins and cycle through) and incorporate at least the lower body and core exercises. However, I dont want to overtax anything. Any suggestions on a routine that might work for me? Sorry for the long past, and thanks in advance.
First, a little background. I had been a yoyo excerciser for a couple years untill about a year and half ago when I started taking kickboxing classes. Since these were offered at a gym I began to go there regularly, but didnt really enjoy it and just stuck with it to get better at kickboxing (which I loved). Now the kickboxing classes where to meet the pe requirement at the community college I attended so when I finished that semester I began looking for ways to work out at home since I could afford a gym mebership not offered through the school/class. I hit upon shovelglove and did it for a few months and loved it, but eventually grew bored. Then I started a new routine of bodyweight exercises and stuck with that for a few months.
In August I transferred from community college to university. Between the much tougher workload, and my (now) one year old son, and the desire to get out meet people my exercise dwindled to a few trips to the pool a month. Recently I ve got back into it, and Im looking to adapt my old bodyweight routine to combine with shovelglove without overdoing it. This is mostly out of a concern that shovelglove never really toned the core or lower body like I wanted. So, here is routine:
Upperbody-Pushups, pullups, chinups
Core-Crunches, situps, jackknifes
Lower body-Squats or hindu squats
I do three sets of 20 each, alternating depending on mood, and then a miniset of 10. I try to add 2 reps to each set every few weeks but keep the mini set at 10. In addition, I run a few times a week.
I want to add shovelglove everyday (mostly I just do 7 reps of each move for the 14 mins and cycle through) and incorporate at least the lower body and core exercises. However, I dont want to overtax anything. Any suggestions on a routine that might work for me? Sorry for the long past, and thanks in advance.