Comments on: Five Hundred Rep Workout

By: Lvette

Lvette — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:09:25 +0000

First day of my vacation. I did not have the weights to continue with the New Rock Your Body which I started on Feb 15 and planned on doing for 4 weeks. Did 500 reps this morning, it took me 40 mins to complete. The push ups and the split push ups did me in and slowed my time.

By: Ariana

Ariana — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:26:43 +0000

Whew! i just finished this for the second time. It was my goal to do all the pushups from my toes…and I did! My time was 31:06…over four minutes off my original.

Thanks for all the great work you guys. You kick my butt almost every day!

By: Debra M

Debra M — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:15:09 +0000

I repeated this workout today and my time was 31:52. I cut over ten minutes off my original time from January 8. And I beat you ;)

Woo! Watching the timer made a big difference. I did the first 50 pushups on my toes, and in the second set of 50 I did 10 on my toes and 40 on my knees. Last time I did only 30 out of the 100 pushups on my toes! Thanks for kicking my butt into shape.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:53:50 +0000

Read above! Have fun! :)

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:53:28 +0000

Pelvic Thrust- lay on your back with your feet(heels) up on a chair, legs at 90 degrees, lift up your bottom as high as you can go and squeeze your butt then lower back to the ground, that is 1 rep

Surrenders- start with your legs hip width apart holding a 5 pounds weight in each hand, bend your right leg until your knee is on the floor and follow with your left leg, now you are in a kneeling position (both knees on the ground), rise up with your right leg and follow with your left leg until you are in the standing position again that is one rep, now lower down to your left knee and follow with the right, and then stand up with the left knee and then the right, keep alternating legs, it sounds confusing but just do it and you will see what I mean, the weights stay over your head the entire time, I couldn’t do it with the weights for too long, I ended up just putting my arms over my head.

Reverse Crunch with Toe Tap- lay on your back, feet are off the ground knees bent 90 degrees, you want to crunch the lower half of your body so you lift up your butt and squeeze your lower abs, don’t swing, then bring your toes down to gently tap the ground, that is 1 rep

Step up- I used a chair that was knee height, start with your right leg, put it up on the chair and it stays there the entire 50 reps while your left leg comes up and taps the chair and then taps the ground that is 1 rep, keep going on the right leg until you’ve done 50 then switch
to the left leg and do 50 reps on the left side leaving your left foot up on the chair and bringing your right up to tap the chair and then down to tap the floor.

By: Nyt_Ryder

Nyt_Ryder — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:25:17 +0000

Curious, is there a pic or a video of you when you first started? just as a comparison. btw you’re workouts are ungodly torturous, but the results speak for themselves ;-)

By: marissa

marissa — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:20:52 +0000

hey heather,
i would like to do this workout but can you care to collaborate alittle bit more with exercises 4,5,10 and the step ups.?
thank you :D

By: Rachelle

Rachelle — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:50:56 +0000

Hey, I would love to try your workout. Could you please clarify what “pelvic thrusts” are, as well as “surrenders”
Thanks

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:00:04 +0000

I did a new version on the 500 reps workout today. I’ll call it the 500 reps sequel!
1. 50 step ups on right leg
2. 50 step ups on the left leg
3. 50 push ups
4. 50 pelvic thrusts (man these burn my buns!)
5. 50 reverse crunches with toe tap to floor
6. 50 jump lunges
7. 50 tricep dips on chair with alternating leg extentions, my arms were shaking by the end of these!
8. 50 bicycle crunches
9. 50 squat with alternating front kicks
10. 50 surrenders, I started with a 5 lb weight in each hand but soon had to drop the weights and just keep my hands in the air

I finished this work out in 24 minutes and 27 seconds. It was a great work out, you should give it a try and tell me what you think!
Have a great day,
Heather

By: TaylorMae

TaylorMae — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:55:44 +0000

WOW! No wonder you’re in such good shape!

It took me 40 mins, I had to break down a lot of the stuff into 5 sets of ten otherwise I was going to die. I can’t do 50 push ups in a row!

Great work, I got a fab cardio workout in half my usual gym time, and all in the comfort of my kitchen!

Taylor