This Valentine’s Day let’s take a moment (okay, well maybe more than one moment) to show our appreciation to the one thing we love most in life–our hearts. Without our hearts, we can’t feel all of those mushy feelings that we really want to feel while showing others that we feel them too. This workout is dedicated to showing our hearts a bit of love by challenging it and making it stronger. This is a sweaty Valentine’s Day workout that’ll get your heart racing and seriously make you sweat.
The goal of this workout is to get you and your heart out of its comfort zone and accumulate 12 minutes or more of uncomfortable effort. Uncomfortable for most people means increasing your heart rate and keeping it in that 84% above your max heart rate.
For this workout, you will need is a set of light to medium weights and a treadmill.
Warm-Up
5 minute jog on a Treadmill. Your pace here is one that you can still talk through without getting out of breath.
Treadmill Block
2 minute run at an uncomfortable pace
1 minute recovery jog
90 second run at an uncomfortable pace
1 minute recovery jog
1 minute run at an uncomfortable pace
1 minute recovery jog
30 second sprint, about 2mph above your uncomfortable pace
1 minute recovery walk
Weights Block: get as many rounds as you can in 6 minutes
Dumbbell (DB) Shoulder Press x 15
DB Lateral Raises x 15
DB Upright row x 15
DB Biceps Curls x 15
Treadmill Block
90 second run at an uncomfortable pace (match or increase previous treadmill block’s pace)
1 minute recovery jog
2 minute run at an uncomfortable pace
90 second recovery jog
1 minute run at an uncomfortable pace
2 minute recovery jog
1 minute all out sprint
1 minute recovery walk
Weights Block: get as many rounds as you can in 6 minutes
Reverse Crunch x 20
Plank Alternating Leg Lift x 20
Side Plank Dips x 10 each side
Toe Touches x 15
