Try This 10-Minute Partner Workout You Can Do Anywhere
Want to up the fun factor in your next workout? Grab a partner! Working out with a partner is not just a good time — it’s beneficial too. It helps you stay motivated and stick to a routine, gives you a bit of friendly competition, and provides an opportunity to share goals and progress with someone who’s just as invested as you are.
In this fun partner workout detailed below, you’ll do a circuit of five exercises for one minute each and repeat it two times, no equipment necessary. Want to follow along with the full 10-minute workout? Try our 10-Minute Mountain Workout for Two on Alo Moves with Tawny Janae and Kupah James. Plus, check out our best tips for working out with a partner.
1.
In and Out Squat
Start with your feet about hip-width apart in a squat and clasp your hands in front of your chest.
Jump and widen your legs, landing low in a wider Squat.
Jump out of the deeper squat and land in the starting Squat position.
Repeat for one minute.
2.
Shoulder Taps to Plank Jacks
Get into a Plank position on your mat.
Tap your shoulder with the opposite hand and alternate back and forth four times.
Stay in the same Plank position and move into doing Plank Jacks — you’ll hop your legs out and back in as if you were doing Jumping Jacks.
Repeat for one minute.
3.
Reverse Lunge to Skandasana
Step back with your right leg and bend your left knee until it’s at a 90-degree angle in a Reverse Lunge.
Turn to face the right side of your mat and bend your right knee with your left leg out straight in Skandasana, or a Side Lunge.
Turn to face forward and complete another Reverse Lunge with your left leg in front.
Step your right foot forward to meet your left and repeat on the other side.
Continue for one minute.
4.
Down Dog to Plank to Bear
Start in a Plank position.
Move into Downward Dog, then step your knees halfway up and look up at your partner.
Step your knees back out into Plank and return to Downward Dog.
Repeat for one minute.
5.
Baby Squat to Cross Uppercut
Get into a Squat position but lower yourself only about halfway.
Keep both fists up by your face and hook your right arm across your body and upwards into an uppercut punch, keeping the punch tight and controlled.
Lower back into a halfway Squat and then do an uppercut with your left fist.
Repeat for one minute.
Take a 20-second break and complete the circuit one more time, all the way through.
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