Get on the Circuit!

You may have heard the phrase Circuit training more then once but do you know what it is or even tried a work out using Circuit training?  A lot of people tend to do one exercise and stay on that exercise till they are finished with working out that particular muscle group. This can add a significant amount of time to how long you spend at the gym. For those of you looking to cut down on your time spent at the gym, Circuit training is the answer you could be searching for. Circuit training is where you perform more then one exercise in concession with another. Example is doing one set of curls and then instead of waiting to do another set, move on to another exercise such as the bench press and do a set of that. If that’s all you wish to do for your current circuit it would look like this.

1 set curls > 1 set bench press > 1 set curls > 1 set bench press, and so on till you have finished working those muscle groups.

Of course when doing a circuit many people include more then just 2 exercises into their circuit at a time. Which exercises you include is up to you and you can have multiple circuits in a work out so don’t add too much. Doing circuits during a work out is a great way to keep your heart rate up and is also a great way to cut down on the time spent at the gym.