The following HIIT circuit is designed to be doable without equipment you wouldn't have at home. You mainly need a bit of space around you, and ideally proximity to your dining table and a chair (for dips and pullups), and if if you have any or all of the following, get it ready:

  • A mat;
  • An object to jump over, such as a shoe box
  • A bench or chair

Here are the exercises:

# Focus Rounds 1 & 3 Rounds 2 & 4
1. Arms Push-ups Pull-ups under the table
2. Legs High knees, butt kicks Knees to chest jumps
3. Core Plank Side-plank left & right
4. Arms Dips Pike pushes
5. Legs Box jumps Jump lunges
6. Core Crunches or sit-ups Burpies

Technical setup

Any video conferencing platform works. Ideally, put the workout on the screen and screenshare. This also allows for music to be shared, if people want that.

One person keeps the time with a HIIT app. We've been using Tabata, configured as follows:

Setting Value
Initial countdown 1 minute
Warumup interval 0
Exercise interval 40 seconds
Exercise interval beep Referee whistle
Rest interval 20 seconds
Rest interval beep Boxing gong
Skip last yes
Number of sets 6
Recovery interval 1 minute
Recovery interval beep Chinese gong
Number of cycles 4
Cooldown interval 0
Interval beep Spors horn
Three second beep Short beep
Halfway beep Jingle bell

Bonus points for figuring out how to mirror the phone to the screenshare…