Jan 20 2011

Exercise Challenge – Passionate Side Lunge Jumps :)

Hi BodyRockers,

Passion in life is a powerful driving force and it is important to have passion for your workouts if you want to see and feel the results. What we are doing here together is not some obssessive drive to become as lean as possible – this is a life style and for life to be well lived it should be exciting. Doing short and intense workouts that you believe in, and that you know have increadible transformative effects – both physically and mentaly (see the BodyRockers section) is much more satisfying than just knowing you have to exercise because it’s ”good for you”. It turns out that the people who love their workouts the most are also the ones who are having the most fun and creating the greatest results. Get pumped up and excited – get passionate about your daily training. The energy and drive you will unlock will not only transform your body but it will touch every area of your life.

Best,

Zuzana & Freddy

P.S. Our vacation in Seychelles continues, but we are keeping up with our workouts and exercise challenges with you from a far. As we mentioned yesterday our internet connection here is so slow that we can’t upload videos this week or even have much luck reading and approving your comments. We will catch up with you guys as soon as we get home. Also notice from the pictures that my skin refuses to get any colour what so ever except for my shoulders which are already burned. Freddy still looks like he is wearing hairy white nylons :)

Workout Breakdown

Time: 12min.Workout Type: Interval trainingExercises: 1
  • Side Lunge Jumpmax. reps during each 30 second interval

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Instructions:

This exercise challenge is only 12 minutes long interval training. There is only one bodyweight exercise that will work your legs, butt, thighs, and core muscles. This exercise also improves your agility, and flexibility. Set your interval timer for 18 rounds and 2 intervals. The first interval is 10 second and the second interval is 30 seconds. Your goal is to complete as many reps of the Side Lunge Jump as possible during each 30 second interval.

Side Lunge Jump – Starting Position

Try to get your right thigh parallel to the ground. Keep your core tight and back straight. Touch the ground in front of you and jump up to switch the legs.

Land in the same postion, but now with the left thigh parallel to the ground and right leg extended to the side.

  • http://deeplytrulyelisa.blogspot.com/ deeplytrulyelisa

    I just finished one of your older workouts, it was the “Butt Buster Workout”. I was actually going to do yesterday’s workout, but then I saw that I didn’t have enough time… I was almost going to say… “yea I’ll do it later” but I knew too well that was not going to happen and also that is exactly how I start slacking! So I said to myself, “Just do a shorter workout, you know you have time at least for that!” And so I did.
    The sense of accomplishment was out of this world. Kicking Brutus out of my life, one workout at a time is one of the best feeling ever.
    Doing these workouts not only improves your body, but it boosts your confidence and with confidence always comes a better outlook on life and with that great things happen.
    I’ve suffered from a nasty ED and I can’t tell you enough how much these workouts helped me. They gave me hope and strenght to get better and a new passion for life and treating my body how it deserves. It seems stupid but it’s true.
    So yes passion is so important and so powerful. Thank you for sharing your passion with us, you help so many of us it’s incredible!

  • http://twitter.com/FlaviaRequim Flavia Requim

    Well, I just finished my workout for today… you´re really right, to have strenght every day to go to my room and do my workouts alone I have to be really passionate for it. To push ourselves harder and harder, every single day, every single rep, giving the best of ourselves it´s needed to have passion, to work with love. when I was younger I didn´t have this love, I always exercised, but I used to do weight traditionals exercises, with 3 sets of 8 reps and with one minute between the sets, it was hard, but to work with 10 seconds rest and with our maximum effort ALWAYS I had to develop something stronger, today I can say that I workout with love, with all my body can work.
    I did the side lunges with knee up because I really need to get rid of fat in my lateral abdome, so here´s my score:
    12/13/11/12/10/11/11/11/12/9/10/12/10/10/9/11/10/12
    it was really good, but I felt I had to push harder than ever, so I did a litlle workout just not to loose the skipping habit after regular workouts.
    It was 50 seconds work and 15 seconds rest , 15 sets of 3 exercises. It gives 5 sets of each exercise, and those were the exercises:
    1-skipping (I did without rope – did jumping low jacks)
    2-V-ups/ side V abdominal : 14/14/12/10/10/10
    3-bridge: 10/10/10/8/8 (did the complete move in every single rep)
    I worked till I couldn´t move anymore, I intent to do 6 sets of each exercise but I had no more power at all. After I did streching, for more 15 minutes and it was my work for today… I´m still shacking
    I wanna say here that thanks to you: Zuzana and Freddy I dicovered what is the meaning of working with passion, true love and persistence. In the beggining I didn´t believe that I could have so many great resoults with sets of 20, 30 seconds, but Zuzana´s consistence showed me that that´s the way to go. What makes me so into it, is Zuzana´s energy and example, and the support of this great “fellowship” (as a friend bodyrocker said). This is one of the greatest feeling we can have, that we have friends all over the world in the same direction of a healthy way to live. I wanna say thanks from the heart!
    ^____________^

    congratz from Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maria-Lanier/100000216811315 Maria Lanier

    I was about to miss my workout because I’m not feeling well. It’s my fault, I didn’t eat the whole day and don’t want to buy food outside. I did some cooking when I got home from work. Laid down and had a little nap but still, in the back of my head, I wanna pump my heart. So, I pulled my dip station, I did 5 sets of 5 reps of reverse push up, did 3 sets of 10 dips, 10 burpees with push up, 30 squats, 10 assisted pull ups/chin up, 10 kettlebell military press, 10 squat with kettlebell overhead, and that’s it for the night. Better than nothing. I gotta go to bed early since for 2 consecutive days I was hitting the bed between 1:00 AM to 2:00 AM.

    See you all tomorrow and thank you so much, Zuzana and Freddy, for the great workouts, passion, motivation, support and everything you do for us. Miss you!!! (I’m waiting for your trip pictures when you get back. :P) ^-^

  • http://deeplytrulyelisa.blogspot.com/ deeplytrulyelisa

    Wow and you were not feeling well? That’s some workout! Good job!
    If you don’t want to eat out (I don’t eat out often either), you should plan to bring with you something healthy to eat. I usually take with me something like an apple, a few almonds and a yogurt. I love this combo. The sweetness from the apple, the freshness from the yogurt and some crunch from the almonds.
    Great job though!

  • AudraFit

    This was more like “Painful Side Lunge Jumps!” LOL.
    28/26/23/24/25/23/22/17/19/19/20/16/18/17/18/20/17/18: 379!
    All this focus on legs lately have brought on a whole new challenge for me. I could barely sit on the potty Zuzana! How’s that for a challenge… Hahaha!

  • Heidi

    Hi guys,

    Love the blog on this workout. PASSION is such a beautiful thing! Thanks for reminding us to keep the spirt of our workouts fresh and alive! I didn’t really want to do this;) my legs and boom boom were so sore from the Killer Squat Challenge and Beach Workout, but, I told myself, I am a bodyrocker, yeah? I can at least “make the effort.” To be honest, 18 intervals sounded daunting, but then I remembered the week we did jump lunges and step ups and the side lunges did help with the soreness. So I set my gymboss, on about the 8th interval I wasn’t sure I was going to make it … but then I just kept telling myself, just do one more interval, doing one more interval will be better than quitting. Then I started focussing on sucking in my abs and keeping my form … I had a huge smile on my face and in my heart when those final beeps told me i’d finished 18 rounds!

    24/26/25/30/29/28/28/27/27/28/26/26/25/23/27/27/27/26=478

    (were they more hop lunges then jump lunges:)?maybe, but I did them!)

    Z&F thank you for keeping me so motivtated, inspired, and challenged. Everyday I can’t wait to see how you are going to kick my booty! It is a treat, much better than chocolate;)

  • http://twitter.com/#!/empowart Jessica

    Hi BodyRockers! I just completed this exercise challenge! It feels so good to push your hardest and to finally reach the end. Such a powerful feeling. I challenged myself to stay around the same reps per round so that I was always pushing my hardest and not slacking. This was my score:
    36/36/35/33/32/32/34/32/33/33/33/32/33/33/32/32/32/35
    I followed this challenge with some skipping, knee raises and stretching.
    Have an amazing day everyone!

    Jess
    ps. Zuz your legs look amazing!! :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Maria-Lanier/100000216811315 Maria Lanier

    I just don’t want to end the day without any sweat at all. Yes, I’m not that feeling so great but funny, I sill have fun doing stuff on all my workout toys (dip station, pull up bar, kettlebells, jump rope). Yes, I should copy you with that, apple, almond, yogurt. I’ll go to store tomorrow and grab some. Thanks, deeplytrulyelisa (or should I call you, ‘elisa’? :P).
    BTW, I’m totally feel great today. I might go crazy with our BodyRock tonight. hahaha!!! >D

  • http://deeplytrulyelisa.blogspot.com/ deeplytrulyelisa

    Hahaha of course you can call me Elisa (deeplytrulyelisa is the name of my blog ;P)! Glad to hear you are feeling better! Let me know if you like the snack. I personally love it! Take care

  • moana

    Thighs are my “achilles heel,” so to speak. I guess we all have different strengths and weaknesses: I could drop and knock out 50 push-ups right now, no sweat, but I could not complete this exercise challenge without having to swap in a few mountain climber and toe touch sets just to loosen up and recover between the side lunges! It was either that or have to stop a lot to shake out my legs, and I wanted to keep my heart rate up. And I’m still working on those one leg squats (but getting a lot better!).

    So the stats are pretty spotty:
    33, 31, 25, 20, (18 toe touches), 29, (63 mt. climbers), 31, (17 toe touches), 35, (62 mt. climbers), 30, 36, (17 toe touches), 36, (21 toe touches), (64 mt. climbers), 42 (killed myself at the end out of guilt for all the modifications!)

  • Anonymous

    I always really loved the paper example.

  • Anonymous

    Hi Shima – unfortunately all kinds of crooked companies are using our BodyRock images :(

  • Jenni_bcn92@hotmail.com

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  • Anonymous

    29_27_29_24_25_24_27_26_27_25_24_26_26_25_24_27_25_24

  • Chrapanas

    i can’t find the video of this workout can anyone help me to find it

  • Anonymous

    There is no video for this challenge – we couldn’t upload videos when we where in Seychelles.

  • Annie_B

    I did this one ond Feb 2nd but didn’t have chance to tell you how I did it hope it’s not too late :)
    Anyhow, I still remember the feeling of this one. It was actually painful haha. But I love the result of these lunges. I love the feeling after I can accomplish your brutal workouts, feel so much empowering. I notice that I have more confidence now. Not only the self-confindence but in everything. I used to be like ” nah…I won’t be able to do this” or “it’s too hard for me”.But bodyrock.tv toughens me up and pushes me through difficult situations. I get so pumped up when I see your new workout. Even though, I’m kind of behind now but I will do everyone of them because I love them :)

    Oh…here’s my scores ; 30/27/27/24/22/25/23/22/22/22/23/23/22/21/21/21/19/21

  • Anonymous

    Try this one today… I actually like very much to do side jump lunge! :) 

    Here’s my score: 31-28-30-30-31-30-30-29-29-28-27-26-30-27-27-26-30-25 = 514reps :) 

  • Sara_hare

    My scores:
    40, 40, 40, 39, 39, 38, 37, 37, 38, 40, 39, 38, 38, 39, 40, 39, 40, 40

    My legs were really shaking after!

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