Feb 3 2011

Legs & Cardio Challenge

Hi BodyRockers,

For the survivors of yesterdays Marine Corps. Workout we have something that will work your legs and get your heart pumping. While not as challenging as yesterday’s workout in terms of overall brutality, today’s challenge is a lot of fun and moves at a fast pace. I think that I like this workout because I managed to whoop Zuzana’s butt at it :) I have a theory that playing your favorite music while you exercise gives you a real competitive edge, because the right music can really spark something inside and lend more power and drive into your movements. I had my 80′s playlist blasting away, and it seemed to propel me forward. I would love to hear what you guys like to listen to when you workout, maybe we can swap favorite workout songs and get some playlists posted in the comments. I am all about the 80′s and today my playlist looked like this:

1. Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight
2. Eric Carmen – Make Me Lose Control
3. Limahl – Never Ending Story
4. Richard Marx – Endless Summer Nights
5. Tom Cochrane – Boy Inside the Man
6. Belinda Carlisle – Mad About You
7. A-Ha – Take On Me
8. Boy Meets Girl – Waiting for a Star to Fall

Any 80′s fans out there? I am also just as huge on 90′s music, but I thought it would be fun to share our fav workout tracks from anytime, so post yours in the comments :)

Enjoy your challenge and rock on!

Freddy & Zuzana

Workout Breakdown

Time: >15min.Workout Type: exercise challengeExercises: 8
  • 1.Step Up & Lunge Back (left leg)30 reps
  • 2.Step Up & Lunge Back (right leg)30 reps
  • 3.Interval Skipping - 4minutes8 rounds of 10/20 second intervals
  • 4.Step Up & Lunge Back (left leg)30 reps
  • 5.Step Up & Lunge Back (right leg)30 reps
  • 6.Interval Skipping - 4minutes8 rounds of 10/20 second intervals
  • 7.Step Up & Lunge Back (left leg)30 reps
  • 8.Step Up & Lunge Back (right leg)30 reps

Get your gear for this workout here:

Instructions:

1) Start with the Step Up & Lunge Back Exercise. Set your timer as a stop watch and do 30 reps on each leg. One Step Up and one Backward Lunge counts as 1 rep. It’s a Time Challenge so try to beat our scores.

2) Write down your time and reset your timer for 8 rounds of 10 second and 20 second interval. You will be doing 4 minutes of interval skipping with your jump rope. Try to go for maximum effort during each 20 second interval. It looks like this:

10 seconds of rest

20 seconds of skipping at max effort

10 seconds of rest

20 seconds of skipping at max effort

… until you complete 8 rounds. Your Interval Timer will let you know when it’s over. I suggest that you do high knees with the rope to really get your heart pumping. If you can’t use Jump Rope than do regular high knees without it.

3) Step Up & Lunge back – 30 reps on each leg

4) Interval Skipping – 4 minutes

5) Step Up & Lunge Back – 30 reps on each leg

Step Up & Lunge Back Exercise

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When you lunge back make sure that the back knee touches the ground before your rise up again. Be careful and control the movement so that you don’t hit the ground with your knee. It has to be just a slight touch.

Our Scores for the Time Challenge:

Round 1:

Zuzana – 5 minutes 8 seconds, Freddy – 4 minutes 53 seconds

Round 2:

Zuzana – 5 minute 40 seconds, Freddy – 4 minutes 31 seconds

Round 3:

Zuzana – 5 minutes 52 seconds, Freddy – 3 minutes 59 seconds

  • http://twitter.com/KristenK Kristen Bridge

    I love the 80′s! Awesome play list!

  • Gabriela MTY, MX

    Bad BAD ROMANCE with my workouts!

  • Yashizzle

    I listen to gangsta music ;) It gets me super pumped!

  • http://kenjibankhead.posterous.com/ ashtromanius

    My hubby and I are all about 80′s music! But, to workout I’m all about Lady GaGa and Trance. Anything by DJ Tiesto or Benassi Bros. Oh Yah!

    Freddy… how about some Erasure thrown in there, especially “Love to Hate You”!

  • Katie

    Girl Talk

    http://www.myspace.com/girltalk

    there’s a little of everything in here!

    Katie
    Colorado

  • http://kenjibankhead.posterous.com/ ashtromanius

    legs=jell-o. Not sure how I am going to even go to the bathroom except falling onto the toilet! Thanks for that. Really.

    So, workout #2 after doing the Marine Whooping workout earlier today… I added a 10# bag, and I wasn’t sure if we were supposed to do the 20 min of skipping so I added skipping at beginning and end of the lunges. I was pretty close to you, Freddy and Zuzana! I make me proud :)

    Round 1: 4:48
    Round 2: 4:39
    Round 3: 5:12

    G’nite folks! That’s all I have in me today.

  • Heidi

    Hi guys,

    I did this challenge tonight. My times were excellent so it makes me think I was doing something wrong :)

    4:41, 4:30 and 4:32.

    my step was about 18 inches and the only thing i can see is I stepped up then stepped back directly into the lunge (without taking a step in between). I could not have done this before, but my balance is improving so much. Not saying I didn’t wobble at all. But for me it was amazing.

    THese “leg” workouts are the hardest for me. I didn’t think I could do more than one set, but I had to think … I am a Bodyrocker, I can just do one more … At the end of the last leg it was like 25 more … can I do it? then 15 … you get the idea. I was shocked at the end of each round when i checked my timer.

    The jump rope in between didn’t make it any easier:) Oh well, I loved this workout and was huffing and puffing!

    Thanks Z&F!

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

    Freddy, thanks for your playlist. They’re all good. Your playlists are my musics tomorrow for this workout. I love all 80s musics – pop, dance, love songs, anything. Let me share you some of my favorite right now, it’s trance musics and really really keep me going… It’s 45 songs so I just used ‘dash’ to separate so it won’t take too long. :P Everytime I played these musics, I feel like I’m in a club. hehehehe :D
    DJ Sammy/Yanou – Lasgo/Something – Snap!/Rhythm is A Dancer 2003 (cj stone radio mix) – DJ Shog/Running Water – Ti/Break My Fall – ATB – Let U Go – Kyau & Albert/Are You Fine? – Rank 1/Breathign (Airwave) – Above&Beyond/Alone Tonight – LMC/Take Me To The Clouds Above – Cosmic Gate/I Feel Wonderful (cosmic gates am 2 pm mix) – Alex Megane/Hurricane – Ian van Dahl/Castles In The Sky – Marc Et Claude/Loving You – 4 Strings/Take Me Away (Into The Night) – Mauro Picott/Komodo – RMB/Spring (talla 2xlc radio edit) – lio/Rapture – 101 scotter – the question is what is the question – Special D/Come With Me – Rocco/Generation of Love – Culture Beat/Mr Vain Recall – Groove Coverage/Moonlight Shadow – Starsplash/Free – DJs @ Work/Someday – Cascada/Everytime We Touch – Aquagen/Summer Is Calling – The Real Booty Babes/Since U Been Gone – Jan Wayne/Because The Night – Frankly Tunes/Prince of Love – Pulsedriver/Cambodia (short vocal mix) – C-Bool/Would You Feel (ziggy x remix) – Bass-T/Sven-R-G/The Sign – Novaspace/Time After Time – Master Blaster/Hypnotic Tango – The Hitmen/Like I Love You (vocal club cut) – Baracuda/Damn! (Remember The Time) – Gigi D’Agostino/L’Amour Toujours – Sylver/Turn The Tide – Paul van Dyk/We Are Alive – Kate Ryan/D. You can listen these songs here: http://www.amazon.de/Trance-Voices-Vol-25-Various/dp/B000WZ8Y3I

    Thanks again. :)

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

    I love Trance musics too. :) I’m gonna look for DJ Tiesto and Benassi Bros too. Thanks for the tip. :)
    Oh, I posted the list of my trances songs above and link so you can hear it – sample from Amazon. :)

  • poacheR

    The Rocky soundtrack all the way! o/

  • poacheR

    Btw, I love the Scooter cover for Neverending story and a lot of other 80′s songs.
    I think they also make great exercise tracks! :p

  • AudraFit

    Heidi, you did great job!

  • Anonymous

    Love the Bangles.

  • Anonymous

    Workouts are full routines, while Exercise Challenges are usually focused on 1 or 2 exercises and may sometimes be less brutal (sometimes) :)

  • Anonymous

    Push as hard as you can – if you need to modify the number of rounds, sets or reps to make the workouts shorter then that is ok – you will build endurance fast :)

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for the support :)

  • Anonymous

    haha :)

  • Anonymous

    We posted on Thursday – just later then usual…

  • Anonymous

    It’s magic!!!!!!!! hahaha

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

    DID IT!!!

    I feel like I am going to pass out… I am shaking so bad! But I am loving it! I honestly cursed you (several) a few times!

    Yesterday workout was one of the hardest ever but I found this one to be way more challenging on the mind… the damn step ups & lunge backs would never end! (I actually checked your post at one point to make sure they were not 30reps all together instead of per leg, hope dies last I guess lol)

    Round 1: 7.21 (took a water break after the first 30)
    Round 2: 7.11 (took a water break after the first 30 and switched legs this way: 15L, 15R, 10L, 10R, 5L, 5R)… oh and I almost fell off of the chair! Damn, I am clumsy!
    Round 3: 8.29 (no water breaks and switched: 10L, 10R, 5L, 5R, 10L, 10R, 5L, 5R)

    I have to say that my right leg is way weaker than the left one, propably because I broke it like 6years ago…

    Brutus was breathing down my neck the WHOLE time! Even more than with the killer burpees workout! And I was sooo close to quitting but I didn’t yay!!!!

    At the end I added another 8rounds 10/20 sec of jogging to loosen up my muscles.

    Man, bodyrocking is hard!!! Yea I’m a nerd but I think bodyrock should have its own verb like any other sport coz there’s nothing like it!!!

    Have a good one everybody and pardon my ramble… as usual lol

  • Anonymous

    I love that “30 something Nostalgic Tragics” I think I will borrow this for the title of a screen play or novel.

  • Anonymous

    I was in public school in the 80′s, but love them!

  • AudraFit

    I listen to all types of music like heavy metal, rock, alternative, pop, hip-hop, R&B, 80′S & 90′S as well to name a few. Too many songs to list here & lately I’ve not been working out with music at all. I just finished this challenge and added an extra interval of skipping in the end to earn half a granola bar and protein shake. Here are my times:
    4:23
    4:27
    5:02

    Not bad considering I did the one half-leg squat challenge last night for 55 minutes with one heck of a sore bum today :)

  • maciel

    Wow Freddy talk about blast from the past.. LOL I’ll leave that to my husband and his 80′s I work out to latin fussion, reggeaton, dance, and pop It pumps me anytime :)

  • http://www.janetspreiter.com Janet

    Woke up late…feeling lazy…figured I needed a jolt to get going. No run today for me…
    4:03 3:59 4:06
    I did an extra round of jump rope sequence at the end plus 20 push up to V up on my exercise ball (abs, abs, abs…grr!) and 5 pull ups. Whenever I fumbled on the jump rope I just kept doing high knees in place to keep the heartrate cooking. My sweetie is cooking up a massive fish he caught and I need to be good and hungry for the feast, so now I have earned it!

  • http://www.janetspreiter.com Janet

    I dunno about that. They are all nasty hard.

  • Anonymous

    Hi F and Z,

    Gees, I just sent this list to a friend the other day! Here are a few ideas for workout music…

    ‘Hot Mess’ Chromeo [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm4JVkH0T-E

    Rihanna – S&M (Video)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reOIt1DeIPk

    Martin Solveig & Dragonette – Hello (Official Short Video Version HD)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK42LZqO0wA

    Tim Berg – Seek Bromance (Official Video HD)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrd25gjyDhE&NR=1

    Robyn ‘Indestructible’ (Official Video)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ketX6HITIDU

    I trend toward contemporary tunes over the 80s and the 80s tunes I like would trend toward the harder edged over ballads… If I have time today I will amend this list with some of those.

    –Chris
    PS Off Topic: I support the Egyptian people in their quests for democracy! This is truly an exciting time and I wish them the best in this and please do it as peacefully as possible!

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

    Well, did it yesterday but I was too tired to post my scores, I had no power to write anything… =P
    Just went home now and came here to see today´s workout ^^
    My scores:
    1 – Step Up lunge Back (added 10kg) (L) 3:05/2:29/2:38 (R)3:11/2:40/2:00
    2 – Skipping (Didnt´ note my skips but I´m improving 2 or 3 reps wach 20 seconds.. =)
    Then I added some exercises because I wanna be fit asZuzana! ^^
    Turkish Get Up (10kg) (20 rps – 2X10), Side Hanging leg raises & Split (30), Swings (10kg) and more 10 minute of 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest of skipping
    It took me 25 minutes to complete.
    Then I streched for more 10 minutes and that was done for me, I had no force to do anything more… The turkish Get Up with 10 kg killed me! rs..
    Thanks a lot for the wonderfull workouts Z!! You´re trully my biggest inspiration!!

    I don´t listen to any music during workouts because it bother me with my reps… rsrs!!! ^^

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

    The leg works are the hardest for me too!! But I think it´s important to go harder with muscles I have more difficoult to develop!!
    You did a great job!! Congratulations!! ^^

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

    Those musics are soooooooooo good!! ^^

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

    WOW!!
    You´re a warrior!! ^^

  • Anonymous

    Wooooooooow I can’t belive it, seems like I managed to beat Zuzanka for the first time! :D

    Round 1: 4:36 (splitted the exercise on 2 sets of 15xL + 15xR)
    Round 2: 4:57 (splitted the exercise on 2 sets – 20xL + 20xR and 10xL + 10xR)
    Round 3: 4:54 (didn’t split it, did 30xL + 30xR straight)

    I am so happy and my legs are so jello :D Also I hitted the ground with my knees a little a few times, but nothing super serious :D
    I was watching the old episodes of Biggest Loser during the workout, cause I don’t have any new movie :(

    Yay, I am so excited about my score today :))))

  • Anonymous

    Oh, my hubby loves Vanilla Ice :D He bleached his hair blonde when he was young to look more Vanilla :D :D I am glas I didn’t know him back than, I would probably never started dating him with hair like that :D (no ofense to blonde people at all, just the shade he had was weird and he looks so much better with his natural dark brown, lol)

  • Anonymous

    Great score Flavia, and you are so amazingly crazy (in a good way) with adding the extra weight :D

  • Anonymous

    Hahaha, let’s make a petition for adding a word Bodyrocking in all national dictionaries :D

  • Anonymous

    Oh thanks for reminding me of Benassi Bros! I used to play them on jukebox yeeeears ago when I was working in a bar, that music always made me happier :) I will try to play it next time! :)

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

    I did this workout yesterday, Friday, 2/4/11, at work during my lunch break. Here’s my score:

    - Step Up & Lunge Back, left, right = 4:32 minutes
    - Skipping = 37 31 32 28 40 30 35 39 = 272
    - Step Up & Lunged Back, left, right = 4:55 minutes
    - Skipping = 35 30 30 33 40 30 43 40 = 281
    - Step Up & Lunge Back, left, right = 4:40 minutes

    Extra:
    10 Regular Push Ups
    10 Modified Pull Ups (feet on the ground, body like diagonal position and hands on the bar)
    Wash Room mini-&-quick-workout (while at work) – 10 1-leg squat left, 10 1-leg squat right , 5 regular push up = did this 3x – this mini-quick workout will be my regular routine at work whenever I go to the bathroom. :P

    I’m getting ready for the Marine workout today, Saturday. :P I think I ready for the pain though my calves are still sore… heck with the sore, it won’t stop me.

    Thanks for the sweaty workout… and getting ready for the next one. :)

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

    Yes, it is but love it. :)

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

    Where did you find the Z´s chair? ^^
    I do my step ups exercises with a litlle ladder. It has 3 steps and I go up in the last one, it´s a litlle bit taller then a chair but I don´t have any chair that I can go up here at home…
    I love when my legs are jello too!!

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

    My comments are going crazy… They are not loading where they should be, I´m replying friends bodyrockers and the comments are appearing like I´m not answering them…. Can you help?

  • Anonymous

    Oh I just need to share this, I hope it is ok to put it here, I just found it and I LOVE IT!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

  • Leslie-Anne

    Oh this one was good! I was dreading it! But I did it!

    My score:
    5:29
    5:07
    5:07

    I was really pushing hard to break 5 minutes on the last one, oh well, next time I guess!

  • Pi-lette

    My times for the challenge were as follows: 4:07/4:12/4:08 I used a weightlifting bench for my step and mixed up my skipping with high knees, jumping jacks, standard skipping and scissors. For weight training workouts I like Gangsta Rap but for running distance there’s nothing like a little techno to motivate you to sprint your hardest!!
    Love “Stronger” by Kanye for any type of workout!!

  • Anonymous

    Hope you get feeling better soon!

  • Anonymous

    I just happen to have the same chairs as they have, we bought them in a set of 4 with a table in Ikea :)

  • Anonymous

    Workout on the way!!!

  • Anonymous

    Interesting… 2 possible options:
    1) Freddy made this up, Zuzanka actually finished it in 1:43 :D but it sounds so unbeliveable that they decided to post a fake the score :D
    ooooor
    2) She did it on purpose to make us feel better and stay motivated.

    OOOOR
    We rock, and we are getting better and better each day :)))

  • Anonymous

    I there Dana – you can email it to us here:
    bodyrockers@bodyrock.tv

    Would love to see Eddie in concert!

  • Anonymous

    Ať se děje cokoli, držím palce ať to dobře dopadne :)
    EMO eating naštěstí vůbec neznám, já spíš z nervů jíst nemůžu :( ale znám eating z nudy, dřív když jsem bývala večer sama doma (když byl manžel na noční) a neměla jsem co dělat, televize mě nebavila, PC mě nebavilo, tak jsem otevřela ledničku a futrovala co to šlo :D

  • AudraFit

    Thank you Flavia!

  • AudraFit

    I’m proud of you Em!

  • Michele

    I LOVED Waiting For a Star to Fall – hardly ever hear that anymore!!! Have not done this workout yet as we were away skiing – in the rain:(! Oh well! But I will be trying it out tonight! Your workouts have helped me become so much stronger! Thanks again for all you do!!! Oh, BTW, something happened with my biceps tendon (up in the shoulder area) doing those diamond push ups. It wasn’t during the workout, because I did not have much trouble executing them and actually enjoyed them. It was a few hours later that the tendon that glides near the shoulder/collarbone area that was killing me and I couldn’t even lift my arm for the day! I will have to stick with regular push ups unfortunately! I did see somewhere on the net that some PT’s feel the position puts the shoulder in a compromised position, but only saw one comment about this. I am an OT and I talked with some of the PT’s at work – they felt it is an awkward position for the shoulder and places some stress on the bicep tendon, but as I said, I saw little written evidence against that type of push up. I’ve learned there are some positions and exercise that anatomically are not good for me, but that is me personally – it doesn’t mean that other people would not benefit from them or that they are not good for others! It’s a great ex for targeting other areas of the shoulder and triceps, but I will have to skip them for now! Quite possibly I was doing them wrong, or again maybe they are just something I should not do! I appreciate that you almost always remind people to listen to their bodies and adjust accordingly! That is the sign of a good trainer and it keeps people from getting discouraged! You and Freddie are wonderful and I appreciate all you do! Thanks again!

  • Anonymous

    We are looking at dumping this system in the next round of upgrades. I had no idea google can’t index these comments – kills them as keywords etc correct?

  • MISSYRD

    I am new to this site but I LOVE it! I am a Registered Dietitian in the US. I train with my one of my friends who competes in crossfit competitions. The workouts are quite similiar , however these workouts are much more fun. You two share a very special bond andits obvious with your videos. BTW- Toned and beautiful Zuzana, such a dedication to working out defines who you are!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KH5AJA5KTTIURWXO6ZXGI2NFYQ Shelley

    Omg!! I pushed so hard to finish this challenge!! Brutus almost got me in this one when the burning started!! But I pushed as hard as i could!!

    My times: 4:30, 4:13 and 4:20.

    I did high kness instead of skipping rope because I don’t have one, but it was still intense either way. Thank you guys so much for your workouts. I wouldn’t have been able to get these times a couple of months ago!!

  • Anonymous

    Hi Samantha, I don’t think there really is any other way to play Hello but loud! :-)

    –Chris

  • Anonymous

    How are things going there?

  • Anonymous

    Boys of Summer is one of my all time favs.

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

    Hey Guys! I completed this workout last night at 1am! For some reason I like late night workouts… does anyone else like to workout when the rest of the world seems to be sleeping? haha. Anyways, here are my times for the Time Challenge portion:
    Round 1: 4:40
    Round 2: 4:35
    Round 3: 4:35
    I hope you all have a fantastic day! I think I am going to try to do todays workout a little earlier this time ;)

  • Anonymous

    Hi GoustiFruit,

    I agree with you on Disqus. It has some nice features, but the inability to use Google to search comments and all that tabbing is a pain. As an extreme example Zuzana’s Interview has thousands of comments! So who would in their right mind choose to tab back to the first comment at 10 comments a time!!!

    –Chris

  • Ricky 29

    just start with the newest workout! and then you follow the schedule. you won’t miss a workout. we will be doing them again some time in the future. have fun! :-)

  • Anonymous

    you can do high knees, jumping jacks whatever gets you moving :)

  • http://BodyRock.Tv Candace

    1. L: 2:06 R: 2:06 ] 4:12
    Skips: 47-44-56-55-50-55-52-56
    2. L: 1:59 R: 2:17 ] 4:16
    Skips: 57-54-47-55-46-57-55-53
    3: L: 2:06 R: 2:13] 4:19
    Loved how perky my booty was after this one :D

  • lori washington

    just love it

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I6PADJ4OUN2KCIRCIZVF7LYGEU Irene C

    yeeepahhh! excellent bodyweight workout!!! so energized afterwards!!!! My scores:
    (i took a 30 sec break between left and right parts in rounds)
    L:2:20
    R:2:32
    INTERVAL SKIPPING
    L:2:16
    R:2:23
    INTERVAL SKIPPING
    L:2:13
    R:2:14

    I was that drunk in my own shot of endorphines that I decided to do some cartwheels and head-stands falling to bridges (no stabilty with it, lol) just for fun and stretching.

    Great one for almost not equipment!! (just skipping rope)

    love it!

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