I enjoyed the video of the ripped up chick showing off her school yard jump roping skills. Especially when she made the switch to just a sports bra (-:

Check out the move at :34 in this vid. They call them Push Up/Back Pillars, but there’s no “push up” in them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dowNsA6tDg&feature=channel

Check out their other vids as they have a ton of ideas.

Annie… you caught the headers too. Thanks for proof reading. Wow… work for Beachbody! LOL… I wish! The design of the i30x5 workout, however, was inspired by the Beachbody workouts. I wanted to create something that had the intensity of their workouts and also something that would be a “balanced” workout. Thanks for the feedback on plyo. I am still tweaking this workout. Any and all suggestions are appreciated. Keep them coming.

Gotta ask.. do you work for Beachbody? Cause you should! These workouts are mean! Totally inspiring me to do something like this because I love that it touches base on everything: strength, cardio, and plyo!

And don’t forget that although plyo is meant to raise the heart rate, there are a lot of upper body plyo – won’t raise the HR as much as lower body plyo. Beside the plyo push-ups, my trainer has me do plyo rows, cable machine presses, bis/tris, pretty much full-body plyo.

As far as a substitute for burpees… I don’t know of any but if you find out PLEASE post it. Burpees tend to be tough on my knees when I’m coming up.

One cardio/plyo move I have in my repetroire is a move called “Rotating Pillar /Reverse Pillars.” Pillar is the standard push-up position. Reverse Pillar is opposite of that with legs straight. When I do this, it really ends up being the “crab” position. Anyway, rotating between Pillar / Reverse Pillar as fast as you can for 30 seconds is a killer core move…for me at least. I rotate clockwise one set, then counterclockwise the next set. Anyway, my two cents.