The Biggest Loser

We are TWO days away from the LIVE finale! And guess who wrote out 2 amazing workouts for us?! TOMA! Check it out below.

Hey everyone! I know time is a very valuable resource for us all and we never seem to have enough of it during the day, let alone for a great workout! However, our health should have no timetable or limits, and it’s priceless! Here are two workouts you can do at home or on the road, and will give you plenty of time to still watch your favorite show, The Biggest Loser! :)

1. This is a great overall body workout that works your upper body, core, and lower body.  Great way to tone up and strengthen all without equipment. Don't have time or the strength to do all 5 Rounds at once? Then pace them throughout the day.

5 Rounds - 10 push-ups, 10 sit ups, 10 air squats

2. The dreaded burpee is tough, but really one of the best exercises you can do without any gym equipment.   Doing the burpee works out your entire body and doing it for time definitely pushes you and your cardiovascular endurance to their limits.  Mark your time down and try and beat it at your next attempt! 

25 burpees for time

Have a great workout and you know who to root for at the Live Finale! ;)

In honor of being THREE days away from the finale, Rob shared his three favorite exercises. #BLCountdown

My three favorite workouts all are designed to get the heart rate going and calories burned!

Boxing was something Dolvet introduced me too that I immediately fell in love with. Sparing with a friend or trainer is fun, a great stress reliever and gets the blood pumping.

For max calorie burn, interval training in a tabata or HIIT pyramid format works best. Pick an exercise: spin, elliptical, ball slams, burpees, etc. Do as many as you can for a certain time period, then rest half that time, i.e 30 seconds on max effort, 15 seconds rest.

We're 5 days away from the finale and Jessie created a personal workout just for you guys! #BLCountdown

Here are 5 exercises, performed 5 times, no weights, no excuses, IT'S ALL YOU!

1.  high knee running in place (20sec)

   - 10 sec recovery 

2.  alternating lunges (20sec)

- 10 sec recovery 

3.  walk the plank push-ups (20sec)

- 10sec recovery

4.  squat jumps (20sec)

- 10 sec recovery

5.  burpees! (20sec)

   - 10sec recovery

Have a great workout and enjoy the Live Finale!

We are 6 days away from the finale and our very own Dolvett created an awesome workout using the number 6! #BLCountdown

Let's do six moves, and six reps of that move six times!! 

6 push-ups 

6 sec rest 

Repeat 6x's 

6 crunches 

6 sec rest 

6X's 

6 squats 

6 sec rest 

6X's 

6 alternating legs standing lunges 

6 sec rest 

6X's 

6 burpees 

6 sec rest

6X's 

60 second plank!! 

This workout represents Day 9 of our countdown toward our season finale! In the same vein of the "12 days of Christmas" (because this Finale will obviously be just as exciting as Christmas morning), you will be completing my "9 days till Biggest Loser Awesomeness" the same way. You need very little equipment to complete these movements so there's no excuse to not try in out! 

OK here we go:

You begin with the one 30 second cardio dash, then go up to the 2 Pull ups and 1 cardio dash, then the 3 Burpee broad jumps, 2 Pull ups and 1 cardio dash... You picking up what I'm putting down? Take this sequence all the way to the top and once you hit the 9 Sit ups that'll be your final pass on all the exercises. 

1 30 sec cardio dash (Bike, treadmill, row machine, outdoor run... whatever you got- use it)

2 Strict Pull ups

3 Burpee broad jumps 

4 Steps ups

5 Push ups

6 Wall Facing Squats

7 Rows (bar or ring)

8 Walking lunges (hands on head)

9 Sit ups

IF you wrap this thing and it's not enough of a challenge... No problem. Double the reps next time you do it and tell me how it goes!! ;)

Good luck and make sure to watch the Finale!!

We are 11 days away from the Biggest Loser finale! In honor of being 11 days away, Bob Harper created a special workout that also counts down from the number 11! #BLCountdown

Ascending-Descending Ladder workout using 2 movements.  Your rep scheme is as follows:

11-1/10-2/9-3/8/4.........3-9/2-10/1-11

You will need a kettle bell or one challenging hand weight. 

Kettle bell swings (American style so that kettle bell or hand weight must go all the up, above your head.)

Hand Release Push ups (Get in a push up position and your chest must go ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE FLOOR. Lift your hands off the floor when you are all the way down, just an inch and then press back up to starting position.) 

So your reps will start with 11 kettle bell swings and 1 hand release push up and then 10 and 2. So on and so forth until you finally get to 1 kettle bell swing and 11 hand release push-ups. 

Now for the fun part. Your "buy-in" before you start the workout is do 11 Burpees and then you can begin the main part of your workout. When you are done with ALL REPS you will have a "buy-out" of 11 Burpees.