Posted on August 31, 2016 by Kate Halsall
You may have heard it mentioned recently that I’ve entered a Pink Collar Boxing Match?! No?? Where have you been! Well I have, and with the fight being only 5 weeks away I’m training everyday – upper body endurance and cardio – to be ready for it. I’m blogging separately about my upper body training, so I wanted to share my boxing inspired HIIT workout with you.
The below session is my current favourite pyramid. You need some kit for this: a step, medicine ball, skipping rope and stop watch. The idea is to have no rest until the pyramid is done – it only takes 4 minutes, so no excuses! Remember to warm up first, get your kit ready close by and press go on that stopwatch:
15 seconds – High Knees
30 seconds – Russian Twists (medicine ball)
45 seconds – Step Ups
60 seconds – Skipping
45 seconds – Step Ups
30 seconds – Russian Twists (medicine ball)
15 seconds – High Knees
Of course, with it only being 4 minutes, you don’t just have to do it once through! To be honest, you could change the exercises but keep the intervals the same – it will challenge you regardless of what exercises you use. For example, I do some footwork drills, other ab exercises and shadow boxing in some of my sessions but keep the overall format identical.
Have fun with it – pick your “favourite” exercises (you know you have some!) and give it a go!