Crush Your Week: 5 Total-Body Workouts to Build Strength

BY The Spartan Editors

This week's Crush the Week workouts, brought to you by Spartan SGX Coach Youssef Kalach, are explosive, total-body workouts featuring jump ropes, dumbbells, and kettlebells. These multi-circuit strength and endurance training workouts are built with two goals in mind: Maximize your abilities on the course and push outside your comfort zone.

Ready to crush the rest of your week? Find the rest of this week's workouts and finish strong! Our expert Spartan trainers are dropping new workouts every month to get you race ready with Spartan EDGE.

What are the benefits of total-body workouts?

There's always a time and place for targeting specific muscles, but it can also be great to get a full-body workout in every now and then, depending on your goals. Here's why:

  1. Improved body composition

  2. Decreased body fat

  3. Increased core strength

  4. Decreased risk of muscular imbalances

  5. Improved balance and coordination

01

Workout: Spartan Strength Crusher

Do as many rounds as you can in 20 minutes.

  • 10 DB goblet squats

  • 8 push-ups to plank rows

  • 5 pull-ups

  • 12 burpees

02

Workout: Be Different

For the first circuit, do 3 rounds and rest 60 seconds between them. Do each exercise for 45 seconds of work, then rest for 15 seconds between exercises. For the second circuit, perform 3 rounds with a 30-second, planking active rest between rounds.

Circuit I

  • Jump ropes

  • Broad jumps to backpedals

  • Mountain climbers

  • Plank drag-throughs

  • Burpees

Circuit II

  • 20 broad jumps

  • 10 push-ups

  • 15 sit-ups

Feeling amped up, inspired, and ready to crush the rest of your week? Find the rest of this week's workouts in the app and finish on a high note this Friday.

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