I love the holidays. That time between Thanksgiving and New Years. (I don’t like that it is extended beyond that like Christmas Carols Nov 1st.) It is a great time of year, family, football, food, reflection,…. food.
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, we celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas. My parents came to town and they totally go overboard. Too many gifts and too much food. However, I did get to relive a fond memory of my childhood, decorating christmas cookies. As I sad, my parents go overboard. They brought 8, that is right 8 dozen cookies. Who does that? It did give a chance for my kids to do something that I always looked forward to minus eating the uncooked cookie dough which is supposed to cause instant death but somehow I survived it.
Sadly I indulged. There they were and there I was a 9 year old kid again wanting and needing christmas cookies. Yes….with milk.
I also know that I have to account for that. Somehow I have to work it off, purge it. So I am certainly attempting to do that by getting right back on the good nutrition train and trying to avoid eating the remaining cookies. Yes there are some left.
So here are a few cookie busting workouts to help work them off or get away from family guests for a while….
20 minute AMRAP
Run 200m
20 sit ups
15 squats
10 push ups
5 burpees
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10 Rounds
200m Run
10 sit ups
10 air squats
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“Michael”
3 Rounds
Run 800m
50 sit ups
50 back extensions
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Bear Crawl 50m
50 Push Ups
50 Air Squats
50 Back Extensions
50 Jumping Pull Ups
50 Lunge Steps
50 Burpees
50 Double Unders
50 Jumping Jacks
50 Mountain Climbers
***Scales make everything 30. For double unders sub 100 single unders
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If you have some Kettlebells:
AMRAP in 15 minutes
5 Goblet Squats
10 Bent Over Rows (5 R/5L)
20 Swings
100 Single Unders
Enjoy and if you get off track, try one of these workouts to keep you going this holiday season.
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