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A Movement Manifesto
3rd January 2025
A personal movement manifesto for all Humans have evolved through adaptation to moving in their environments. I aim to help people learn to enjoy movement and make it part of their physical and mental selves. Physical activity is often reduced to a number: “10,000 steps”, “walk a mile a day,” or ’100 reps’. By focussing […]
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Body weight circuits

Some people scorn on these, or fail to find new ways to make them challenging.
I did one this morning: 5 different exercises 20 repetitions of each, then 30 seconds rest. Repeat 5 times. Then do a different 5 exercises, same structure, and finally another 5 exercises.
So you are doing 5 exercises, 20 repetitions, 30 seconds rest, 5 sets, three times. A total of 15 different exercises, at 100 repetitions each.

The 30 seconds rest seems quite long at the beginning, but by the 10th set I needed the rest.
I varied the exercises in each block of 5 with legs, upper body, abs, jumps/ burpees/ sprawls.

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