Happy Thursday! We’re almost to the weekend. 
During my last post I talked about my morning run I skipped. My body and mind wanted to run real badly, but my throat just wouldn’t have it.
Well, after a couple hours my throat was feeling so much better that I decided to do a quick lunch time workout with my mom at her place. 20 minutes of torture for her. Pure bliss for me.
Originally I wanted to just run, but I took some of my own advice and switched it up a bit with spurts of strength training and sprints too. It was so much fun! Here’s what we did – as well as I can remember since I thought it up on the spot.
20 minute lunch time workout
Warm up: 2 minutes to jog to a road less traveled
Once there we went back and forth on this road, which was about 3 blocks in length. I’ll explain using down as going one way and back as returning to the start.
Down: Run, still a bit easy. Stop at the turn around and complete 10 side-to-side ab jumps (hands on the ground, feet together + knees bent a bit with your body angled to the right. You’re going to jump your legs + feet up to the center and to the left. Then jump your legs + feet from the left to the right. Each time you go to both sides is one rep).
Back: Run then sprint all out the last ¼ of the length. Stop at the turn around and complete 10 jump squats (squat down and jump up when you return to the top – land softly).
Down: Run then stop at turn around. Complete 20 high knees on each leg.
Back: Run then sprint all out the last ¼ of the length. Stop at the turn around and complete 10 lunges with twists on each leg (lunge forward with your hands together and arms going straight out. Twist your arms to the side of the front leg).
Down: Run then stop at turn around. Complete 10 push up jacks (when you go down into the push up, your legs go out like during a jumping jack).
Back: Run then sprint all out the last ½ of the length. Stop at the turn around and complete 40 counts of plie squat pulses (the first 10 are with both feet flat, the second 10 are with your right heel lifted, the third 10 are with your left heel lifted, then the last 10 you’ll have both your feet flat again).
Down: Run then stop at the turn around. Complete 20 jump squats.
Back: Run then sprint all out the last ¾ of the length. Stop and complete .20 side-to-side ab jumps
Down: Run keeping your knees high the entire time. Really engage your core here and go-go-go until the end!
Once you get to the turn around point, return for a cool down jog the last 2 minutes.
This workout, including a short warm up + cool down took 20 minutes, but I made sure to leave another extra 5 minutes for stretching when we got back home.
This was a great workout! Super quick, super effective and super fun! To make sure it was 20 minutes I had my stop watching going that I kept an eye.
It goes to show you really can get a great workout in with limited time. No excuses here!
Any guesses to what I’ve got here? It’s not a normal thing if that helps…
Think hard. The first one to get it right will get a prize. I’ll share my little secret tomorrow.
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You are very smart to take it easy and then do a quick 20 min workout when you were ready. Nice!
Hmm I would say that is some sort of quinoa or barley?!
Way to go!! Sounds like a quick, but effective, workout!!
Glad your throat felt better! I love short but intense workouts! Your sounds great!
I see barley? Maybe wheat berries? I dunno, but it looks great!
When I have a sore throat I try not to push myself too hard, but like you, I iwll definitely do something if I think I can! This workout sounds like it was very smart and effective.
Close Gina! I sure felt the quick workout in my legs the next day.
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