I need a new exercise regime!?

Question

Ok, I've been consistently exercising for almost two years now, whew! but, I think it's time to switch up my exercise because I think doing the same plan for so long doesn't have quite the same effect on me as it once did. Problem is, I don't have the time or money to get to the gym. Since I'm trying to lose fat and gain muscle, I do cardio five times a week and half hour of muscle building. I do Taebo which is a great mix of cardio and strength training. I don't want to give up taebo since its so effective, but does anyone have any recommendations of other types of cardio or exercise that I can do which will be equally effective? I was thinking of jogging/running, but I was uncertain because I'm not sure if jogging burns the same amount of calories as taebo does. Anyone have advice?

Answer 1

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Do Each Of The Following Moves For One Mintue:

RUN IN PLACE - kick heels up to buttocks
JUMPING JACKS
HEEL DIGS - press heel out in front of you and hop to switch feet
BURPEES - standing place hands on floor and jump feet back into pushup position and then jump feet back towards hands and stand up (that completes one burpee)
SPEED SKATER - leap to the right bring left leg slightly behind you and you reach towards the floor and then leap to the left bringing right leg slightly behind while reach towards the floor
CROSS COUNTRY SKI - stand with legs together and jump up landing with right leg in front and left leg back then jump again switching feet in the air
DOWNHILL SKI - feet together jump to right and then the left and stay low in a little bit of a squat position
HIGH KNEES - run in place brining knees into the chest as much as you can
SQUAT THRUST - kinda like a burpee but when you come up jump
POWER JACKS - like a jumping jack but when your feet go wide go down into a squat and when jumping back with feet together do two hops
JUMP ROPE - real or pretend
SQUAT JUMPS - in a squat position jump up and land in squat position
QUICK FEET - standing with feet wide run in place as fast as you can (think football)
SQUAT W/ FRONT KICK - feet close together squat and come up and kick with the left then squat again and come up and kick the right and keep alternating
SHUFFLE W/ KNEE - shuffle three times to the left and on the third one lift your right knee and then shuffle three times to the right lifting your left knee on the third one

do each move one after the other with out a rest inbetween and you'll get an excellent cardio workout - If you want a longer workout walk in place 3-5 minutes and then do the whole circuit again and repeat as many times as you feel up to it

Also, you can alternate one cardio move with one strength training move for an interval workout. After a cardio move do squats for a minute, then the cardio, next minute try lunges and so on. Other strength moves to do would be pushups, crunches, bicep curls, hamstring curls - just mix it up.