Fun cardio workouts – 8 circuit variations

Make your home cardio workouts more fun and varied with these workout circuits. Instead of having a set workout, pick one of the 8 combinations. The variety will help to keep your body challenged and stop your workouts from becoming stale. All 8 workouts have the same exercises, but the number of seconds for each circuit and the total number of circuits varies. The printable is a 4 sheet PDF, which you can cut into 8 workout cards if you want to. Read the exercise instructions here, then download the printable and get started with your fun cardio workouts!

About this workout

This is a high impact workout and is therefore more suited to those who already have a reasonable level of fitness. If you’re a beginner, it would be better to start with a walking program or a beginner running program to build up your cardio endurance.

Make sure you do the warm up exercises shown below so that your joints and muscles are warm before doing the workout.

Please also read these general exercise guidelines.

You should wear training shoes for this workout, to cushion the impact on your joints.

You’ll need some sort of timer – either a phone app, a stop watch, or just a clock with a second hand.

Fun cardio workout – 8 variations

The workouts consist of 6 exercises (instructions below the chart). Each workout is a different combination of number of sets and interval times. This adds variety to your workouts to stop you from getting bored. It’s up to you how you use them – for example you may want to do one of the following:

  • Make a random choice which variation you use for each workout
  • Work through the different variations in order
  • Find one or two variations you like and stick to these

Fun cardio workout 8 variations

Exercise instructions

Warm up – do 20 reps of each of these exercises

Side bend

Knee lift warm up

Circuit exercises

Jack

Mountain climber

Twists

Jog

Side leap

Jump squat

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