A Quick Conditioning Tip

Here’s a quick exercise to do that I included in my workout the other night. It’s simple to perform and will help you to quickly add variety to your conditioning routine as well as give your legs a whole new pump and your lungs a nice little workout.

The Walking Squat

Extremely simple. You can do it with bodyweight or a light kettlebell, dumbbell, barbell or any other light object. You simply perform one squat and take one step forward. Every time you take a step you perform the squat. It’s amazing how doing something as little as taking a step can add to the cardiovascular demand of an exercise as well as changing the pace and feel of a movement. I did 150 of these the other night and even though that’s not too many, my legs were surprisingly sore and I had to breathe surprisingly hard. The step really adds to the lung demands and the altered pace gives you a totally different pump in your legs. Just a quick way to add some fast variety and interest to your conditioning, because THAT gentlemen is the key to doing it longterm. Make it fun, make it interesting, make it hard work, make you sweat and breathe, strengthen your lungs and shoot you muscular endurance through the roof.