Switching Up My Workout Routine with “Move With Linds”

If you’ve read my previous fitness-related posts, you know how much I’ve come to enjoy finding new types of workouts to incorporate into my fitness routine. One thing that I’ve noticed about myself in the recent past, especially when it comes to fitness, is just how set in my ways I can become when I find something that “works”. Establishing consistency within working out can be difficult, so when I’ve been able to find that one form of exercise that just “works” for me, I become extremely reluctant to incorporate additional types of workouts into my fitness routine, out of fear that this developed consistency will diminish.

However, I have come to realize just how rewarding it can be to diversify your workouts. The excitement that comes with trying new forms of exercise, for me, has allowed my passion for and dedication to working out to grow significantly…leading me to the topic of today’s post.

Move With Linds is a workout program designed by “Dancing With the Stars” pro Lindsay Arnold—I danced for a significant portion of my childhood…never competitively, just for fun…and over the course of approximately a ten-year period, I took classes in numerous styles of dance—After seeing several advertisements for this workout program, rooted in dance, on my social media, I knew that I had to give it a try…and with workouts being choreographed by someone as skilled as Lindsay Arnold, I knew my workouts would be in good hands.

Within the seven-day trial period, I wanted to be sure to experience all that the Move With Linds program has to offer—so I followed along with her “Summer MOVE Challenge”, picking up with the schedule at its current phase (Monday of Week 3).

The schedule consists of five days, Monday through Friday, worth of workouts each week, with an optional sixth workout on Saturday. Within this one-week trial, I followed along with a couple of cardio workouts, some being rooted in dance, as well as workouts focused on upper body, lower body, and ab sculpting and strengthening…I exercise five days a week, on average, and typically incorporate a variety of workout forms into my routine each week—cardio, upper body, lower body, abs—so I assumed that completing the six days would not be much different than what I was already used to, and even considered, at first, picking out a workout for Sunday to make the most out of my trial period…Let me tell you, I’ve never needed a rest day more than after these six days of Move With Linds workouts.

The videos included within this program are a variety of lengths, ranging from a quick five minutes, for your busier days, up to approximately thirty minutes, with a bulk of the workouts lasting between twenty and thirty minutes. A large portion of these videos are structured as Tabata workouts—for those of you that are unfamiliar, Tabata is a form of High Intensity Interval Training—so you perform a specific movement for eight sets, with each set consisting of twenty seconds of intense work, followed by a ten-second break. In my opinion, this structure makes a workout move by quickly, since you are fully completing each movement before you move on to the next.

I really enjoyed this change of pace to my established fitness routine and will be continuing to incorporate Move With Linds workouts into my exercise regimen going forward…From Intense Cardio and Sculpting Upper Body, Lower Body, and Abs, all the way to Dance-Inspired Workouts, this program has it all, and puts an exciting spin on what would normally be a “regular” workout session. I can confidently say that I had six good days’ worth of workouts within this week trial, and that each video, regardless of length, had me working at my hardest throughout and feeling such accomplishment after completion. If I were you, I would definitely give “Move With Linds” a try, and with the seven-day trial, you have absolutely nothing to lose. You’ll work hard, believe me, but I think you’ll find that this program is absolutely worth it.

Week 2, here we go…