The Hardest, Most Effective No-Equipment Workout You’ll Ever Do | Men's Health Magazine Australia

The Hardest, Most Effective No-Equipment Workout You’ll Ever Do

I travel at least a weekend or two a month, but I haven’t missed a scheduled workout in the last 10 years.

I call my go-to hotel room workout “Sore Legs, No Equipment.” It’s so killer that I even do it when I’m at the gym and really want to hammer my lower body and test my mental toughness.

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The workout is long and difficult, but it will make you stronger, fitter, and leaner. Midway through you’ll want to quit—but not quitting is the key to reaping mental-toughness benefits.

The workout is especially beneficial for endurance and strength athletes.

Doing repeated lunges and wall sits helps bulletproof your lower body. You’ll not only have more stamina on a run or ride, you’ll also potentially get rid of aches and pains. If you don’t have any issues running now, you’ll prevent them.

Most strength athletes get stuck in a rut because they don’t do enough reps. This’ll solve your problem. Just a few rounds in you’ll probably have blown your legs up more than you ever have in your life.

Directions: Do 40 alternating bodyweight lunges. Then do a wall sit for 30 seconds. Then do 38 alternating lunges, followed, again, by a 30 second wall sit. Then do 36 alternating lunges, followed by a 30 second wall sit. Follow that pattern of doing two fewer lunges followed by a 30 second wall sit until you’re doing just 2 lunges. Try to make it through the workout without resting.

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