Formosa Fitness

Cindy

5 pullups

10 push ups

15 bodyweight squats

Today: 18 reps of the circuit in 20 minutes. Three more than last time!

So after I did Cindy the last time, I wanted to know how I did so I searched and saw that my results were not bad. The best I saw was 20 reps of the circuit in 20 minutes. How he did it was to do 1 rep of the circuit every minute for 20 minutes. I wanted to see if i could do that today, and while I didn't reach that, I did much better.

Pullups total: 90

Pushups total: 180

Squats total: 270

Not bad at all for 20 minutes work!

I found this tempo to be even harder because I had to keep the pace. And I did more work this time, obviously. I paid more attention to form but my form started breaking down on the pullups at around the 9th rep. The pushups stayed fairly strong till the end. I took a one minute rest break around the 10 rep and another 30 break near the 14th rep of the circuit.

I found that I did one rep of the circuit in about 45 seconds, leaving 15 seconds for rest. This was nice and allowed me to keep the reps cleaner.

Part of my interest in this is to see how much volume of work I can pack into short workouts. As a trainer, I want to see how much busy people can get done in a short amount of time. More work volume, more calories burned. Personally, I'm very much into efficiency. I work out long and hard sometimes, but I also like to have very intense, short workouts.

I hope that you're learning along with me. This is stuff that you can use to increase your workout intensity, boost your number of pushups, burn more calories, etc.