Workout Reboot - Set Goals. Smash Them

A New Year calls for a new, fresh approach to training. Take your weight training workout outdoors for a change of scenery and renewed motivation to push your limits.

Grab a set of dumbbells that will be heavy enough to challenge you, head outdoors and get lifting!

Dumbbell circuits are a great way to structure your workouts because you can work according to volume with a target number of reps, or you can work based on time intervals. In this full-body dumbbell circuit, we’re going to combine both to mix it up a bit.

Ashley Wiens is an IFBB Figure Pro, personal trainer and nutritional professional.

What led you to your fitness-focused lifestyle?

I’ve always been passionate about health and fitness. I’ve played sports my entire life, including college basketball at the Division 1 level. I have a degree in Food and Nutritional Sciences with my concentration in Dietetics from Colorado State University. A knee injury is what got me interested in competing and opened the door to my passion and profession in the health and fitness industry

How do you prefer to structure weekly workouts for your clients?

I structure workouts on an individual basis. Not every client has the same schedule, availability or skill level, so I structure a client’s workout based on their individual goals, the time they have available and the forms of training they enjoy most. I’m a big believer that there will be more adherence by a client following a plan if they like the majority of what they are doing, and it fits into their schedule and lifestyle.

Try this workout

This workout cycles through several circuit repeats. Each time, the rep and time format of the circuit changes (the moves within the circuit remains the same).

Round #1: Reps for time – perform 15 reps of each exercise as quickly as possible without sacrificing form.