The Ultimate Full Body Workout Routine

After reading books and articles on proper exercises that workout your body entire I believe I have come up with the ultimate routine:

• Day 1: Cardio + Abs/Core
• Day 2: Yoga from the P90x series
• Day 3: Cardio + Strength Training
• Day 4: Rest/30 minute walk
• Repeat from Day 1

All the exercises here can be done with the Complete Home Gym for Under $100.
I use cardio to kill two birds with one stone: Cardio in and of itself and a full body warm up. Jogging around your neighborhood for 15-20 minutes should be enough.
Regarding stretching there is a lot of controversy of whether you should do it before or after you work out. To avoid any issues I simple don’t do any stretches on Day 1 and Day 3 and simply stretch my entire body with yoga on Day 2. I found the P90x version masculine enough for those of you who feel that yoga is too feminine. I can finally reach my toes!
Check out this page for a complete list of yoga poses if you do not feel like purchasing the dvds: http://www.sheerbalance.com/brettsblog/p90x-yoga-poses-tony-horton/
 

The Outline

Day 1 – Cardio + Abs/Core

15-20 min cardio

Core Excercises

• 20 kettlebell swings
• hip thrusts on the swiss ball
• Plank for 50 seconds
• 10 Side plank rotations on each side
• 10 Leg raises on the iron gym (requires the straps)

Swiss ball exercises

• 20 swiss ball myotatic crunch
• 20 swiss ball back crunch
• 20 swiss ball side crunches
• 30 swiss ball russian twists
• Super Man on the swiss ball for 30 seconds
  20 swiss ball jack knives

Ab exercises

• 20 plain crunches with legs on the swiss ball
• 20 V situps
• 10 reverse crunches
• 50 bicycle crunches

It might look like a lot but each set of repetitions takes under 1 minute or less so one complete round takes about 20 minutes if you don’t rest in between reps.

Day 2 – Yoga from the P90x series

Day 3 – Cardio + Strength Training

Shoulders

• Pull ups
• Military Presses
• Lateral Raises

Legs

• Calf Raises
• Lunges
• Squats
• Swiss ball wall squats
• Dumbbell Dead-Difts

Chest

• Pushups
• Incline bench press using the swiss ball
• Swiss ball push ups
• Swiss ball dumbbell flies

Back

• Rows
• YTWL back exercises on the swiss ball

Arms

• Dumbbell Kick-Back
• Curls
• Dips

For videos of the above exercises check out part 2 and part 3.
There you have it!