FunFitChicks: Fun, Effective Workouts 4 Women

This weekend, I went to a Texas Roller Derby bout.  If you have never seen a roller derby, you have to check it out!  It’s a little hard to explain how the game works.  The bout takes place on a banked track and the girls wear the old time 4-wheeled skates.  Basically, one girl from each team, called a ‘jammer’, has to make her way through the rest of the pack to score points.  There is a lot more to it than that, but that is the basics of how points are scored.

This game is not for the weak of heart.  These girls play intense and hard; talk about a kick-butt workout!  Bruises, cuts, fractures, and broken bones are just a part of the game for them.  They put their hearts and souls into it.

Now, I’m not suggesting y’all go try out for a roller derby team to get in shape.  The point to take from this is how important it is to have FUN when you are working out.  You will be more motivated and workout more intensely if you do something you enjoy.  Focus on having fun and the fitness results will follow.

Don’t enjoy the treadmill?  Don’t use it!  Hate the gym?  Don’t go!  Here are some ways you can spice up your workouts:

- When the weather is nice, take your workout outside. Go to a park, grassy field, walking trail or other large outdoor area to do your work out.

- Find a small hill and do hill sprints, lunges, side squats, duck walks, etc.  This is a killer workout!

- Hook up with a buddy and do a challenge workout.  Set up a series of 3-5 exercises, and see who can complete the most rounds in a specified period of time (ie 5 or 7 minutes).

- Find some stairs (in your house, hotel, at the park, outside a city building, wherever) and do stair sprints, plyometric stair jumps, push-ups, lateral squat walks and any other exercise you can come up with on the stairs. Be careful though! You won’t be able to walk up a flight of stairs for the next couple of days after this workout!

- Grab a group and go play some dodgeball or kickball. After each round (or inning) call out two exercises. The team that won that round gets to choose which exercise they do. The team that lost that round has to perform the other exercise. This can be a lot of fun if you pair very different exercises such as lunges uphill and crunches. Which exercise would you choose as the winning team? : )

- Go to a playground and do a full body workout using only the playground equipment.

- Use unconventional equipment for something different: sandbags, kettle bells, car tires and other objects can be a fun way to change up your workout!

- Grab a die and choose one exercise per number. Roll the die and perform the exercise for 12 reps. Keep rolling until you’ve done each exercise at least two times.

These are just some suggestions to get your creative juices flowing.  Think outside of the box and have fun with it!

If you have a fun twist to working out, let us know about it by commenting below!

Carpe Diem!

The video above is of a penalty round between 2 players. This was a 2-lap duel, no holds barred, everything goes!

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