Often times many people use Valentine’s Day as excuse to eat chocolate and hook-up. That’s fine with me. Why not mix things up this V-Day? You can have fun with them, workout and do it in the comfort of your home with your significant other?
Often times many people use Valentine’s Day as excuse to eat chocolate and hook-up. That’s fine with me. Why not mix things up this V-Day? You can have fun with them, workout and do it in the comfort of your home with your significant other?
Today we’ll focus the demo the concept of tandem/partner training. Tandem training is an exercise that involves performing joint movements with at least one or more persons. There’s tons benefits of partner training, some of the big ones include:
1.) Social Support and Accountability
2.) No Equipment Necessary
3.) Provides a Ton of Variety
4.) The Competition Drives for even Better Results
5.) It’s FUN!
We use tandem training from time to time to help change things up at our boot camps. The inner voice inside of you that comes out when working out with others that helps you push yourself to and beyond the limit. There is no better way to make your body change and break out of a frustrating training rut. My clients and I laugh at some of the most ridiculous grunts and animal sounds during partner workouts that we hear, ha!
But, being that it’s the most important holiday of the year (yes the year is still young), let’s make today’s partner training workout a little more intimate if you will.
The Valentine’s Day Workout for Couples- Tabata Style Partner Training
This 20-minute total body tandem workout will consist of Total Body weight-based exercises. For each exercise at each outlined station below you will alternate between 20 s of work (max rounds) and 10 s of rest (transition). You will repeat this 30-second sequence eight times for four total minutes followed by a one-minute rest and transition before moving on to the next station listed:
Station#1- Partner Push-up-Row Combo
Station #2- Partner Resisted Stationary Lunges- Static or Dynamic
Station #3- Partner Resisted Pillar Circuit
Station #4- Partner Resisted Squats- Static or Dynamic
Now you got the workout it’s now time to ask your valentine if they want to have some real fun and save your waistline in the process! Some say that sweat-driven pheromones are one of nature’s most powerful aphrodisiacs… you can contact me back and let me know it’s true 
And of course, you can always relax your muscles and enjoy some post-workout recovery by dipping in the hot tub!
