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.
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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:
Improved body composition
Decreased body fat
Increased core strength
Decreased risk of muscular imbalances
Improved balance and coordination
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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
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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
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