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No Equipment Upper Body: Tabata 45-min Workout

45 min
 · 
9 exercises
Let's really continue to build that upper-body strength. Even at the point when you think you can't go on, push through! Yes, you'll ache tomorrow; but you'll grow back stronger for it!
Jumping Jacks
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Tabata 1: Get that body moving!
0:45 rest
Plank Knee to Elbow
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Tabata 2: Alternate legs between every rep!
0:45 rest
Power Skips
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Tabata 3: Try to use your arms for momentum as much as you can!
0:45 rest
Shadow Boxing
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Tabata 4: Gradually build up the intensity with every set!
0:45 rest
Weighted Bench Dips
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Tabata 5: A book on the lap and 2 sturdy chairs is all you need!
0:45 rest
Snap Jumps
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Tabata 6: Make these as fast as you can!
1:00 rest
Hollow Body Rock Hold
3 sets
20 secs
30 sec rest
Try to hold this pose for the full 20 seconds!
0:30 rest
Seated Punches
3 sets
40 reps
30 sec rest
20 left-right combinations! Hold the pose while tensing your abs to remain upright.
0:30 rest
Side Plank
4 sets
30 secs
30 sec rest
2 sets per side per set, and then you're all done for the day!
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No Equipment Upper Body: Tabata 45-min Workout
45 min
 · 
9 exercises
Let's really continue to build that upper-body strength. Even at the point when you think you can't go on, push through! Yes, you'll ache tomorrow; but you'll grow back stronger for it!
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Jumping Jacks
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Set 1 of 8
Rest before next set
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Tabata 1: Get that body moving!
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings, Shoulders
  1. Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
  2. Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
  3. As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
  4. As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
  5. Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.

This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.

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Plank Knee to Elbow
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Plank Knee to Elbow
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Set 1 of 8
Rest before next set
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Tabata 2: Alternate legs between every rep!
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Obliques, Shoulders
  • Lay face down on the ground with extended legs.
  • Point your toes while you place your hands beneath your shoulders.
  • Push yourself up into the plank position.
  • Maintaining a tight core and flat back, bring your left knee to your right elbow.
  • Pause and slowly return each to the starting point.
  • Repeat with the other side and keep alternating.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Lower Back
  1. Get into a push­up position with hands under shoulders and body straight from head to toes.
  2. Engage your core and bend your elbows, keeping them in towards the body.
  3. Lower your body towards the floor.
  4. Straighten your arms and quickly jump the feet forward to outside of the hands.
  5. Jump back to starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
  1. Get into a face down position on the floor supporting your upper body on your forearms. Your elbows should be bent at 90 degrees.
  2. Extend your legs straight out behind you, supporting them on your toes and balls of your feet.
  3. Keep your body in a straight line by tightening your abdominal and oblique muscles.
  4. Hold for as long as possible.

For extra balance training and core strengthening, you can lift one arm or leg.

Rest
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Power Skips
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Power Skips
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Set 1 of 8
Rest before next set
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Tabata 3: Try to use your arms for momentum as much as you can!
Primary muscle group(s):
Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
  • Stand up straight with a tight core and flat back.
  • Raise your arms to waist height.
  • Forcefully push off the ground, elevating the left side higher than the right side.
  • Swing your left hand up and your right hand back.
  • Land on the balls of your feet, then immediately push off again with the right side.
  • Alternate and repeat.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Begin jogging in place, lifting the knees as high as you can.
  2. Try to lift your knees up to hip level but keep the core tight to support your back.
  3. For a more advanced move, hold your hands straight at hip level and try to touch the knees to your hands as you lift them.
  4. Bring the knees towards your hands instead of reaching the hands to the knees!
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings, Shoulders
  1. Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
  2. Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
  3. As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
  4. As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
  5. Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.

This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.

Rest
0:00
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Shadow Boxing
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Shadow Boxing
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Set 1 of 8
Rest before next set
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Tabata 4: Gradually build up the intensity with every set!
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Biceps, Shoulders, Triceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors, Lower Back, Quadriceps, Shoulders, Triceps
  1. Stand tall with a tight core. Keep your gaze straight ahead. Bring your hands up to shoulder level. Make a tight fist with the thumb on the outside of your hand. Do not wrap your fingers around your thumb.
  2. Begin in a left lead stance. Your left foot should be in front. Your right foot should be behind. Throw a left lead jab by extending your left hand straight out in front of you and immediately retracting.
  3. Follow up the left jab with a right cross. Twist your foot and drive your right hip forward as you throw a straight punch with your back right hand. Alternate these two punches. Switch sides when finished with the prescribed repetitions.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Shoulders
  1. Sit comfortably with your feet grounded, knees bent, and body upright.
  2. Slowly lower your upper body backwards just enough to feel a strain on your abs.
  3. From here throw a desired amount of left and right eye-level punches.
Rest
0:00
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Weighted Bench Dips
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Weighted Bench Dips
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Set 1 of 8
Rest before next set
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Tabata 5: A book on the lap and 2 sturdy chairs is all you need!
Primary muscle group(s):
Triceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors, Shoulders
  1. Set up 2 flat benches opposite each other. They should be roughly the distance of your hips to the floor apart.
  2. Stand with your back to one bench,facing the other, then crouch down placing your palms behind you on the edge of the bench. Your arms should be fully extended at shoulder width, with your fingers facing forward.
  3. Place the heels of your feet on the other bench. Keep your legs fully extended.
  4. Have a spotter place a barbell weight plate or dumbbell on your lap. This is the start position.
  5. Slowly lower yourself down by bending your elbows,until they are at 90 degrees or slightly less. Hold for a count of one.
  6. Return to the starting position by pushing yourself up using only your triceps to straighten your arms. Hold then repeat

You will need a spotter to help you with this exercise. Trying to place the weight in your own lap once in position can cause instability and increase the risk of injury. Have your spotter remain with you throughout your set to ensure the weights don't slide off causing injury.

Primary muscle group(s):
Triceps
Secondary:
Shoulders
  1. Sit on a chair with your hands either next to your hips or slightly under the hips.
  2. Lift up onto your hands and bring your hips forward.
  3. Bend your elbows and lower your hips down, keeping shoulders down and hips close to the chair.
  4. Push back up but don’t lock your elbows and repeat.
Rest
0:00
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Snap Jumps
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Snap Jumps
8 sets
20 secs
10 sec rest
Set 1 of 8
Rest before next set
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Tabata 6: Make these as fast as you can!
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps, Shoulders
  1. Lie face down on a padded surface. Place your hands beneath your shoulders and make sure your feet are extended straight behind you. Push yourself up into a classical Push-Up position. Keep your hips are slightly elevated. Tighten your core.
  2. Keeping your gaze straight, push off the ground with your feet. Bending your knees, allow your feet to come up near your hands.
  3. Immediately, push off the ground again with your feet, extending your legs straight behind you once again to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Secondary:
Chest, Shoulders
  1. Place your hands flat on the floor, shoulder width apart.
  2. Extend your torso and legs fully behind you with only your toes and balls of your feet touching the floor.
  3. Your body should be in a straight line, with your weight supported on your hands and toes only.
  4. Starting with either leg, flex your knee and hip at the same time to bring your knee up and under your hip. Your other leg should remain fully extended. This is the start position.
  5. Using an explosive movement, reverse the position of your legs, by extending the bent leg back and simultaneously flexing the straight leg until it is in the startposition.
  6. Continue alternating in this manner for the desire amount of time.
Primary muscle group(s):
Obliques
Secondary:
Abs
  1. Assume a push-up position. Core is tight. Back is flat. Hands are underneath the shoulders. Head is in neutral position.
  2. Bring one knee up towards your chest and twist towards the opposing elbow. (Ex: Right knee to left elbow.)
  3. Contract the core and return the leg to the starting position.
  4. Alternate between legs.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
  1. Begin jogging in place, lifting the knees as high as you can.
  2. Try to lift your knees up to hip level but keep the core tight to support your back.
  3. For a more advanced move, hold your hands straight at hip level and try to touch the knees to your hands as you lift them.
  4. Bring the knees towards your hands instead of reaching the hands to the knees!
Rest
0:00
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Hollow Body Rock Hold
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Hollow Body Rock Hold
3 sets
20 secs
30 sec rest
Set 1 of 3
Rest before next set
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Try to hold this pose for the full 20 seconds!
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
  1. Lie down on a padded surface. Have your arms extended above your head with your feet straight out in front of you. Point the toes down and forward.
  2. Begin the movement by contracting the core. Simultaneously, move the hands and feet up. Keep the legs and arms straight.
  3. With your gaze straight ahead, bring your chest and legs off of the ground, focusing all of the tension in your core. Hold this position for as long as you can. Afterward, slowly return to the starting position.
Rest
0:00
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Seated Punches
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Seated Punches
3 sets
40 reps
30 sec rest
Set 1 of 3
Rest before next set
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20 left-right combinations! Hold the pose while tensing your abs to remain upright.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Obliques
Secondary:
Shoulders
  1. Sit comfortably with your feet grounded, knees bent, and body upright.
  2. Slowly lower your upper body backwards just enough to feel a strain on your abs.
  3. From here throw a desired amount of left and right eye-level punches.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Biceps, Shoulders, Triceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors, Lower Back, Quadriceps, Shoulders, Triceps
  1. Stand tall with a tight core. Keep your gaze straight ahead. Bring your hands up to shoulder level. Make a tight fist with the thumb on the outside of your hand. Do not wrap your fingers around your thumb.
  2. Begin in a left lead stance. Your left foot should be in front. Your right foot should be behind. Throw a left lead jab by extending your left hand straight out in front of you and immediately retracting.
  3. Follow up the left jab with a right cross. Twist your foot and drive your right hip forward as you throw a straight punch with your back right hand. Alternate these two punches. Switch sides when finished with the prescribed repetitions.
Rest
0:00
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Side Plank
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Side Plank
4 sets
30 secs
30 sec rest
Set 1 of 4
Rest before next set
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2 sets per side per set, and then you're all done for the day!
Primary muscle group(s):
Obliques
Secondary:
Abs
  1. Lie on your side on an exercise mat.
  2. Fully extend your legs with one resting on top of the other.
  3. Fully extend the top arm down the side of your body.
  4. Bend the arm at floor level to 90 degrees. Your upper arm should be parallel to your body, while your forearm is at 90 degrees. This is the start position.
  5. Lift your body off the ground and balance on your forearm and the side of your foot, while keeping your body in a straight line.
  6. Contract your abdominal muscles and relax your shoulders.
  7. Continue breathing throughout the whole exercise.
  8. Hold this position for as long as you can.
  9. Relax and change sides.
  10. Repeat.
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