How do you come up with your workout rotation?

[Ricka]

Hi everyone.

If you enjoy coming up with your rotation, or designing rotations for someone else, can I ask your strategy on coming up with rotations?

For example, you might prefer to do upper body - cardio - lower body - cardio - rest -repeat.

Or maybe you like to do slow/heavy - yoga - quick twitch - cardio - rest - repeat

and so on. I understand you might use different strategy for people with different goals.

What concept do you like to use to come up with your rotation?

[edensmom]

I usually do upper/lower/cardio repeat. Or total body/cardio/upper/lower/cardio. So long as all themuscle groups get worked each week. But lately I am enjoying follwing preplanned rotations since I am an early morning exerciser. No thinking. I have been doing Cathe's all summer and just started the 4 week fitnessblender Booty Bootcamp. Since it's just 3 days a week, I have flexibility with the other 2 to 3 days I workout. That is nice because I tend to bail on rotations if I feel too boxed in.

[Tugger31]

I work long hours on my feet and sometimes nights so change my rotation each week based on my work schedule. I will generally do upper body and abs on a day I know my legs will be too fatigued from standing. I wish it weren't so!

[alisoncooks]

I find that I stick best with something uncomplicated:
total body
rest
total body
rest
total body
rest


Sometimes I do cardio or stretchy yoga on the "rest" days...but nothing strenuous. I'm talking, like, a easy walk with the kids or something like that.

Sometimes I've done:
lower body
upper body
rest
lower body
upper body
rest

[desie]

It helps to have a very specific goal. Then on days when you're not sure you want to workout, you can still do it because you want to reach the goal. Right now I want better cardio capacity and better jumping ability. Those things started to slip over the summer when I was busy doing more leisurely activities with the kids.

[Honeydew]

This is what usually works for me:

Day 1 Total Body

Day 2 Classical Stretch or Essentrics

Day 3 Upper/Core

Day 4 Classical Stretch or Essentrics

Day 5 Lower/Core

I add in cardio whenever I feel up to it.