Total Exercise
Aims to improve your cardiovascular fitness by performing exercises continuously without a break between them.
Total Exercise is the most cardiovascular of the three types of circuits here. The entire session is completed without any rest at all.
A small number of different exercises are worked through in turn to form a set, rather like ‘Normal Circuits’. However, unlike these, the numbers of each exercise is the same for all the exercises within a set.
For example, the session may consist of 5 sets, where a set may consist of press ups, abdominal curls and squat thrusts. The numbers
- 5 -- 10 -- 15 -- 10 -- 5
mean that the athlete should do 5 press ups, 5 abdominal curls and 5 squat thrusts followed by 10 press ups, 10 abdominal curls, 10 squat thrusts before going on to 15 press ups, etc.