Have you been sat ploughing through turkey dinners, mince pies and chocolate selection boxes for the past few days?
Have you swilled enough beer to sink a small boat? Has the food guilt started creeping in after a jolly old Christmas food binge?
You’re going to need a pretty tasty workout to burn that lot off. Well, we’ve got just the workout for you – it’s an all-in-one muscle-building, fat-burning, cardio blast that will sweat the Christmas right out of you. Thanks CrossFit Clitheroe.
It’s festive themed too, obviously.
The 12 Days of Christmas workout basically follows the Christmas carol – except instead of the ‘five gold rings, four calling birds, three French hens’ etc – we’ve cunningly replaced them with exercises.
So you do 1, then 2 and 1, then 3 and 2 and 1, then 4 and 3 and 2 and 1 – all the way up to 12.
Try to do the whole circuit without a break…and without bringing your Christmas dinner back up. it should take a good 20 minutes.
12 Days of Christmas Workout
1 Deadlift
2 Hanging toes to bar
3 Strict pull ups
4 Barbell thrusters
5 Squat and tuck jumps
6 Burpees
7 Lunges (both legs)
8 Press-ups
9 Barbell Shoulder Press
10 Sit-ups
11 Kettlebell Swings
12 Back Squat
So here’s the weights you’ll need…*
Hard
Deadlift 100kg
Thrusters 34kg
Barbell Shoulder Press 34kg
Kettlebell Swings 24kg
Back Squat 34kg
F**king hard
Deadlift 125kg
Thrusters 42.5kg
Barbell Shoulder Press 42.5kg
Kettlebell Swings 32kg
Back Squat 42.5kg
*Scale down the weights to a weight you can manage if you need – you want to see next Christmas after all.
