Four new workouts are coming your way today!
Get ready to get sweaty!
HP x360
A few weeks ago I received an email from Collectively inviting me to apply for a campaign centered around the new HP x360, a computer with four modes: Laptop, tablet, tent and stand.
As you may remember, my laptop was causing me serious headaches a few weeks ago and eventually died one day. I used Ryan’s old laptop when I was traveling to Sanibel and Minnesota and I remembered why that computer is the “backup” in our house. Aside from the battery lasting all of 10 minutes when unplugged, the computer randomly shuts down and freezes all the time, which obviously made blogging a real treat when I was traveling.
The HP x360 laptop arrived at the perfect time and I arrived home to Minnesota so thrilled to break into the box and test out my new laptop. Set up was a breeze and I have been so, so impressed with the computers incredible battery life and functionality – I’ve never seen a computer that works as a tablet, too, let alone converts into four different modes!
I use the tablet at home a lot when I just want to browse around the internet, the laptop mode is obviously the one I use the most since I work from my computer every single day and the tent/stand mode is great for streaming videos, following recipes online when I’m cooking, etc. Love all of them!
Four 30-Minute Workouts
To go along with the four modes of this computer, HP asked bloggers participating in this campaign to create a post centered around the theme of four. Since I love sharing workouts with you guys, I figured I would share four new workouts you can complete at the gym (or at home, in some cases) on days when you only have time for a quick 30-minute workout. I hope at least one of them catches your eye!
- 30 Minute Treadmill Workout
This 30 minute treadmill workout plays around with various speeds to hold your interest and help fight treadmill boredom. After a quick 5-minute walking warm up, it’s time to pick up the pace and incorporate some intervals into the mix.
- 30 Minute Total Body Workout
If you want to hit every muscle group in your body but don’t have a lot of time to do it, this 30-minute total body workout targets the arms, legs and core and also includes some challenging bursts of cardio to keep your heart rate up and make you sweat. If you have a set of dumbbells, this is a workout you can also do at home. Begin with round one and complete as many rounds of the squat jumps, push up and leg lift crunches as possible for six minutes. Rest as needed before moving onto Round Two, Three, Four and Five!
- Elliptical Workout
Sometimes the elliptical gets a bad rap for being an “easy” cardio workout, but by playing around with the inclines and resistance on the elliptical, you can walk away feeling like you got a great low-impact cardio workout! This 30-minute elliptical workout cranks up the intensity by simultaneously increasing inclines and resistance. Whether you pedal forward or backward is up to you, but I like to change it up every five minutes or so.
- At Home Circuit
Of the four new workouts I’m sharing today, this one is probably my favorite! You don’t need any equipment (except for a jump rope, but you can pretend to jump rope for that particular exercise if you don’t have one), so this workout is a great at-home workout option. It is very, very fast paced and quickly progresses from one exercise to the next. As always, rest as needed and honor your body, but try to keep things moving as much as possible. It’s a sweaty one!
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Collectively on behalf of HP. HP is currently on tour with Meghan Trainor and will be creating a documentary with a sneak peek behind the scenes using the new HP X360. They’re bringing camera crews from Vancouver to Nashville and you can follow along by watching episodes or searching the hashtags #bendtherules #ThatBassTour. Thank you again for your continued support!!
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i’m snowed in at the moment, so this at home circuit looks great!
Hope you’re staying safe and warm!!
I need to challenge myself with one of these!
Hi Jan! I’ve been away from my computer and phone most of the day with family, but I just checked my email and got your sweet email from this morning! Thank you so much for checking in!
I love these! Especially the Jumping Jacks one because it requires no equipment! 🙂
Yay! So glad to hear it! 🙂
I worked with Collectively on the HP Sprout campaign and have been SO pleased with the HP line. Nice workouts, Julie! 🙂
Yay for more workouts! I have a Surface which I regret buying and this looks so much better, I like the tent variation because then you can just stand it up to watch or read things. That’s great. Enjoy!!
HP makes great products. I work for a technology magazine and most of the things I’ve seen from the company have been pretty cool. I also think tent mode is really neat. I’ve seen a few products that do that and I wish I had one!
Thanks for the workouts! The at-home workout looks great. Sometimes it’s hard to get out of the apartment in the mornings before class, so anything I can do in my bedroom is much appreciated 🙂
You should still get a MacBook! 🙂
Ha!! 🙂 I tend to gravitate toward PCs b/c of the Windows operating system & the compatibility with Windows Live Writer <-- my go-to blogging software
Awesome tablet, looks so useful!
I want to incorporate the “total body” workout into my week. I’ve been wanting to build a bit of muscle.
Thanks1
You know, had you had told me a couple weeks ago to jump rope without a rope, I would have looked at you like you were crazy, but…I did it during a recent circuit workout at the gym and loved it. It’s still a great exercise even without the equipment, and I’m much less likely to trip. Haha!
I think the computer looks very cool and it’s nice it serves many uses With your old computer dying the timing was perfect it sounds like. Thanks for the workouts!
Awesome! Since I’m on the road all the time with 50 States In A Year, I’m always looking for new body weight workouts that I can do. I’ve come up with several myself but it’s always nice to have someone else do it for you once and a while! I’ll have to give that last one a shot this week!
yay! hope you enjoy!!
i have a jump rope in my basement – i totally need to bust that thing out!
yes!!! jumping rope is so hard in the best kind of way! 🙂
Great workouts! Can’t wait to try some out!
you have the best at-home workouts, love it!!
Thanks, Ashley!! <3
My computer does the inverted thing too and I love it. So nice to have.
Thank you for these awesome workouts. I’ll be including them in my Friday Favorites…as long as I can ge tthe post up in time 🙂
Thanks for sharing!!
I did the total body circuit yesterday and loved it! The time flew by and I felt like I was working my entire body!!
Thank you so much for your awesome workouts!!! I absolutely am in love with your blog!!! My family told me all about this, and I don’t know what I did without it!!
Thanks so much!!!
Thank YOU for reading!
Thanks for these great ideas! I did the total body circuit Saturday and found it really challenging. An amazing cold weather work out!
Tent mode. 😀 That’s something I won’t try and do with my normal laptop. But it sure looks convenient!
I’ll be trying that 30 minute @ home workout tonight! Thanks for sharing!
I am a huge fan of your treadmill workouts. I have been doing them for winter training for a few years now. I will def try this one out 🙂 I’d love to see more in the 45-50 min range, too!
Hi! I did the circuit workout day and loved it. It was almost exactly 30 minutes! I consider myself in pretty good shape and it was still challenging enough that I broke a sweat. I did have a couple questions if you have a chance to respond:
For the alternating lunges, does each leg count as 1 (so right leg one, left leg two, right leg three, etc) or is 1 a set of one left and one right. Does that make sense?
Same with 180 rotation squats…is one a set of two squats, or do you count each time you squat to get to 20?
Are high knees just running in place with lifting your knees up high (is that a stupid question?)?
Lastly, I had a baby a year ago but still have some pelvic floor weakness and too many jumping jacks is hard for me (I.e. It pushes my bladder to the limits with all the repeated jumping!). Is there an alternative activity you would suggest? I tried running in place, is that pretty equivalent cardio/burning calorie wise?
I really appreciate any answers and thank you for the great workout! You should totally promote it as mom friendly as I wS able to do it while hanging out with my son and it cracked him up (and he loved crawling under me during the planks and push ups haha!
Great work outs. I’m thinking of starting a blog for healt,wellness want fitness for the 50+ age group. I want to dispel the myth that fitness is for the young and that age is only a number. FItness can begin at any age. Just have to take it slower and am for what you can do now not what you could do at 21.