Climb Down from that Pyramid Workout

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This workout is a pyramid. Rather than using a timer, it uses number of reps. As you climb the pyramid, the exercises get a little harder but you do less of them -- starting with 100 reps of exercise 1 and ending with 10 reps of exercise 10. Time-wise, it should still take right around 10-12 minutes.

Even if you have to take a break, complete all the reps of each exercise before moving onto the next one.




  • 100 Jumping jacks
  • 90 Butt kicks
  • 80 High knees
  • 70 Skip kicks (hopping from foot to foot with a low quick kick out to the front with the opposite foot)
  • 60 Mountain climbers (push up position, quickly alternate pulling one knee to the chest, then the other)
  • 50 Toy soldiers (stand up tall with arms straight out from shoulders, alternately raise each straight leg to try to touch toe to opposite hand)
  • 40 Plank side to side jumps (push up position, pike hips up and jump as high as you can side to side with feet together, hands don't leave the floor)
  • 30 Arch tap hops (standing on one foot, quickly lift the other with knee out to side and touch the arch of your shoe, then hop to that foot and touch the other arch)
  • 20 Squat jumps (in squat position, reach toward floor with both hands then jump up and reach overhead, land in squat position)
  • 10 Burpees (from standing, put both hands on the floor, jump out into push up position, then jump back in with feet close to hands, then jump up and reach hands overhead)