BeWOW: Thanksgiving Calorie-Burn Workout

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Thanksgiving’s right around the corner, so it’s time to burn some serious calories. With so much extra eating going on in the next few days, you should plan to get in some good workouts this week to avoid the extra pounds that usually find their way to your hips this time of year. Lucky you, I’ve got an intense calorie-burning workout for you to try!

Here’s what you’re going to do: Start with one set of squats, completing 50 reps, then move on to two sets of both lunges and mountain climbers, performing 40 reps of each in each set. Once you’re finished those, move on to the next group—three sets of the next three exercises at 30 reps each—and continue the pattern until you’ve done five sets of five exercises with 10 reps of each. This workout will target every muscle in your body and challenge your ability to move as fast as you can without giving up. Good luck!

BeWOW: Thanksgiving Calorie Burn

50 x 1
Squats

40 x 2
Lunges
Mountain climbers

30 x 3
Crunches
Alternating front shoulder raise
Skiers

20 x 4
Push-ups
Squat jumps
Dips
Dead lift

10 x 5
Burpees
Pull-ups
Knee-ups (hanging on the pull up bar with your hands, drive your knees to your chest using your abs)
Plank row (in a plank, hands on weights, hips square to the floor, row one weight up, put it down, do other side.)
Medicine ball sit-ups (do a full sit-up holding a heavy medicine ball or a weight).

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Audrey McKenna Hasse is the owner of A.M.Fit, a personal training and healthy consultation business on the Main Line. You’ll find her workouts every Monday right here on Be Well Philly.

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