Crush Your Week: 5 Workouts for Building Full-Body Strength

BY The Spartan Editors

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves,” Sir Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and one of the first two climbers confirmed to have reached Mount Everest’s summit, says.

Every race poses a variety of challenges. Some will be expected, others will not, but all of them must be conquered. Each obstacle will test you in different ways, so what is the best way to be prepared? Conquering a full week's worth of full-body strength workouts.

The variety of bodyweight workouts programmed this week have been designed by Spartan SGX Coach Ashley Squire-Smith to test your mental and physical strength in different ways and prepare you for the inevitable unpredictability out on the course.

Ready to crush the rest of your week? Find the rest of this week's workouts and finish strong! Our expert Spartan trainers are dropping new workouts every month to get you race ready with Spartan EDGE.

What are the benefits of full-body strength workouts?

Here's why you should do more full-body strength workouts:

  1. Increased functional movement and mobility

  2. Decreased risk of injury

  3. Improved posture

  4. Increased core strength

  5. Reduced back, hip, and should soreness

01

Workout: Monday

In this 15-minute AMRAP, do as many rounds of the following as you can before the timer runs out.

  • 6 hand-release push-ups

  • 8 Supermans

  • 10 bodyweight squats

02

Workout: Tuesday

Today, you'll do 3 separate Tabata circuits, each done for 4 rounds. Do each exercise for 20 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds before the next exercise. Rest for 60 seconds between each circuit.

Circuit I:

  1. Dead bugs

  2. Bird dogs

Circuit II:

  1. Hollow-body holds

  2. Supermans

Circuit III:

  1. Left-side plank

  2. Right-side plank

Feeling amped up, inspired, and ready to crush the rest of your week? Find the rest of this week's workouts in the app and finish on a high note this Friday.

WORKOUT OF THE DAY BODYWEIGHT EXERCISES CRUSH THE WEEK

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