Immediately I’ve a 20-minute whole physique exercise that may enable you to construct power and endurance utilizing some weights!

In right now’s exercise we’re utilizing a preferred exercise format referred to as “pyramid coaching” that we simply accomplished a problem with in Rock Your Life (my on-line residence exercise studio and ladies’s health group) and folks had been loving it!

Talking of Rock Your Life, the challenges I supply there are formatted with customized choices and sequences for you whether or not you’re in your biking years, in perimenopause or put up menopause – so you may comply with the proper plan for YOU!

Now seize some weighted objects (water bottles, dumbbells or no matter you may have) and be a part of me to rock this exercise collectively! 



For those who like this fashion of coaching, the Quick Health Problem is an extremely efficient, time-saving problem within the 15-20 minute vary. If you begin, you may decide to make use of any of the three calendar tracks you may have entry to on your life stage and schedule calls for.

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Whole Physique Energy Sculpt

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Tools: weighted objects, elevated floor
Pyramid Format: Spherical 1: 15 seconds | Spherical 2: 30 seconds | Spherical 3: 45 seconds | Spherical 4: 30 seconds | Spherical 5: 15 seconds. Resting 15 seconds between every motion with an optionally available bonus transfer.

Pyramid 1

Alternating Step Ups to Knee Drive

  • Start by standing tall in entrance of your elevated floor along with your core braced and a weighted object in every hand.
  • Plant your proper foot on the elevated floor and, retaining your weight in your heel and your chest upright, drive by your proper foot to face totally in your proper foot, and drive your left knee up in direction of your chest. Be conscious that your proper knee is monitoring in step with your toes.
  • With management and retaining your weight in your proper heel, slowly decrease your self again down, planting your left foot, then your proper.
  • Swap sides and proceed alternating sides on your allotted time.
  • MOD: Take away the weighted objects and full this train with body weight solely.

Relaxation: Triceps Kickbacks

  • Stand along with your core braced, chest up, shoulders again and down (as in the event that they had been towards a wall), and weighted objects in each arms.
  • Hinge ahead on the hips at a forty five diploma angle along with your physique with a flat again, and interact between your shoulders, in order that they’re not rounding ahead. Permit your dumbbells to hold beneath your chest and maintain your head and neck in a impartial place.
  • Draw your elbows up and again beside your ribcage and carry out tricep kickback by kicking your arms straight again, rotating your palms in direction of the ceiling, and contracting your triceps.
  • Hold your elbows beside your ribcage as you bend your arms and repeat the kickback from a hinged place for allotted time.

Pyramid 2

Elevated Plank Row

  • With a weighted object inside attain of your left hand, start in a tall plank place on an elevated floor with shoulders stacked over your wrists, core braced, impartial gaze (not trying up or down) and again flat.
  • Seize the weighted object along with your left hand and ​​retaining your hips sq. to the bottom and core braced, carry out a row along with your left arm by pulling your elbow straight again alongside your physique and squeezing the bottom of your shoulder blade.
  • Slowly return your proper arm again down and repeat for allotted time.
  • Swap sides when prompted and repeat.
  • MOD: Drop your knees for a modified plank place and/or carry out the rows with none weighted objects.

Relaxation: Chicken canine attain

  • Start in a tabletop place on the mat along with your shoulders stacked over your arms, knees below your hips, and a flat again along with your wore braced.
  • Prolong your proper arm and left leg whereas squeezing the glute of the prolonged leg, retaining your core braced and hips stage.
  • Draw your proper elbow in to fulfill your left knee as you crunch your torso and contract your abs.
  • Prolong your proper arm and left leg as soon as extra earlier than returning to your tabletop place and switching sides.
  • Proceed alternating sides for allotted time.
  • MOD: Hold each arms on the mat and lengthen simply your leg behind you and crunch it in beneath your physique.

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Pyramid 3

KANG Squat

  • Start by standing along with your toes hip-width distance, holding a weighted object in every hand, your core braced and shoulders again and down (as in the event that they had been towards a wall).
  • Bend your knees in step with your toes, sending your hips again to come back right into a squat.
  • Drive by the heels to straighten your legs, sustaining a flat again and hinge within the hips, as you contact the weighted objects to your shins along with your palms dealing with your physique.
  • Squeezing the glutes with a braced core, drive by the heels to come back again as much as standing.
  • Repeat sequence for allotted time.

Relaxation: Calf Raises

  • Stand along with your toes hip distance aside, core braced, chest up, shoulders again and down (as in the event that they had been towards a wall), and a weighted object in every hand at your shoulders or by your sides.
  • Raise your heels off of the mat as excessive as you may with management, then slowly decrease them again down (be conscious that you just’re not shifting your weight aspect to aspect or leaning ahead).
  • Repeat for allotted time.
  • MOD: Take away the weighted objects and full this transfer with body weight solely.

Pyramid 4

Hole Maintain Press (or Bridge Raise Press)

  • With a weighted object in every hand, start mendacity in your again along with your knees bent, toes planted, and core braced in order that your decrease again is making contact with the mat.
  • Use your core to carry your shoulders off of the mat and lengthen your legs out lengthy to hover over the mat.
  • Prolong your arms up overhead and alternate decreasing and lifting every arm for chest presses, being conscious that your decrease again stays involved with the mat and your shoulders keep lifted.
  • MOD choices: Bend your knees and maintain them frivolously touching the mat, or maintain them hovered away from the mat.
  • Alternatively, maintain a bridge pose as an alternative of a hole maintain all through this train.

Relaxation: Roll Ups

  • Start by mendacity along with your again on the mat, your legs and arms prolonged.
  • Use the power of your core to carry your arms and torso off of the mat, retaining your core braced as you fold over your legs to succeed in on your toes.
  • With management, reverse the motion, considering of articulating and unrolling your backbone again all the way down to the mat till you might be again to the beginning place.
  • Repeat for allotted time.
  • MOD: Barely bend on the knees as an alternative of getting them totally prolonged.

Nice job Rockstar! The time and power you spend money on your self and your well being makes an enormous distinction! Let me know what you considered right now’s exercise within the feedback beneath.


Outcomes don’t occur in a single day nevertheless it’s the actions you are taking persistently over time that add as much as the massive modifications in your well being, power and physique. ❤

I like how Meg actually pulls so many ideas we focus on collectively on this put up she shared in Rock Your Life, the place she’s mentioning her physique composition modifications and the way the expectation of our weight on the size doesn’t actually mirror what we expect it would.

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