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Fat Burning Ladder Workout

By Dennis Heenan August 16, 2016

When it comes to creating fat burning workouts, we always like to vary the structure the workout itself. This is the perfect way to keep things interesting and give your workouts a little break from the norm.

So today, you will be doing a great fat burning ladder workout that consists of 5 of our favorite exercises. You will then finish with a challenging ab workout at the end.

Your goal for the workout is to complete it in under 25-minutes. Here’s what you will do:

Fat Burning Ladder Workout (How To)

You will perform the 5 exercises below in a ladder format going from top to bottom. After each round, you will minus either one or two reps from the exercises. The exercises containing 20 reps, you will minus 2 reps each round and the exercises containing 10 reps you will minus 1 rep each round. You will do this for 10 full rounds!

Pull-Ups: 10 reps (-1 each round)
Pushups: 20 reps (-2 each round)
Alternating Dumbbell Lunges: 10 reps each side (-1 rep each side, each round)
Dumbbell Overhead Press: 10 reps (-1 each round)
Goblet Squats: 20 reps (-2 each round)

You will ONLY rest when needed, trying to complete the entire ladder (until you reach 1 rep or 2 reps on each exercise) as fast as possible.

After you are finished with your final round, you will then complete the ab workout below:

Fat Burning Ab Finisher (How To)

On each exercise you will perform 15 reps without rest in between. Rest 30-seconds between full rounds and complete 2 TOTAL rounds.

Leg Raises: 15 reps
In-n-Outs: 15 reps
Ab Row Boats: 15 reps (each side)
Outside Mountain Climbers: 15 reps (each side)
Rest 30-seconds and repeat one more time!

It’s always fun to break out of the norm and do something a little different than “3 sets of 10 reps” or “50 reps”.

Adding in a ladder every once in a while will keep your workouts fun and interesting.

Then adding a nice little ab workout like the one above at the end is always good for burning a more fat while building up some strength in your core.

Here’s our favorite ab workouts to place at the end of each session for faster results!

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Exercise Descriptions From The Workout

Pull-Ups

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Pushups

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Alternating Dumbbell Lunges

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Dumbbell Overhead Press

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Goblet Squats

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Leg Raises

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In-n-Outs

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Ab Row Boats

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Outside Mountain Climbers

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