Here are 5 routines that you and your partner can enjoy together!
1. Partner Planks
- Lie on your stomach, facing your partner.
- Keep elbows under shoulders, palms flat on floor, and toes tucked under.
- Using your abdominals, elevate your torso and reach forward with your right hand to touch your partner’s right hand.
- Switch arms.
- Gently lower your body back to the ground.
- That’s one repetition; complete 12 total.
2. Manual Resisted Push-Ups
- Get in the standard push-up position: back straight, abs tight, hands shoulder-width apart, up on your toes. Your partner faces the same direction and
straddles your back, pressing on your shoulders.
- Bend your elbows to lower your upper body while your partner applies just enough pressure to force you to resist the downward motion.
- When you come to an inch or so away from the floor, press back up to the start. Your partner continues to press your shoulders downward, resisting your
upward movement.
- Repeat for 10 reps with 3 sets.
3. Medicine Ball Partner Pass
- Kneel on the floor back-to-back, and slowly twist to one side to hand the ball off to your partner (who should be turning toward you).
- Then twist to the other side as they turn to hand the ball back to you.
- Continue passing the ball in that direction for 60-90 seconds, and then repeat the exercise in reverse.
4. Assisted Pistol Squats
- Stand 2 feet from your partner, facing each other.
- Hold each other’s wrists.
- Lift and extend opposite legs.
- Support & lower each other into a one legged squat.
- Return to start and repeat for 12 reps.
5. Double Lunge
- Stand facing your partner, about an arm’s length apart, and hold each other’s hands.
- Lunge forward with your right leg as your partner lunges backward with their left leg.
- Reverse the motion, lunging backward with your right leg as your partner lunges forward with their left.
- Complete 10-12 reps, then switch sides.