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If you wanted to shake up your training, EMOM (‘Every Minute On The Minute’) could be just what you’re looking for: it’ll push you to work harder, can be adapted to suit your fitness level and can be incorporated into your current plan.
The interval workout involves performing a certain number or sequence of exercises - such as ten burpees followed six kettlebell swings - within a minute. Once you’ve completed your target, you’re rewarded with rest, but only until the next minute begins when you have to start over.
As you can probably guess, the faster you complete the set, the more time you have to rest until the next minute starts. So if the exercise is to complete 15 burpees and you do those in 30 seconds, you have 30 seconds to rest. If you take your time and do them in 50 seconds, you have 10 seconds to rest before you have to get up and go again.
“It’s a good way of pushing people to maintain pace,” says PT Sharon Morrow. “This is because if you repeat the process, slow down and get tired, you lose the recovery period, therefore motivation to stay quick is essential.” Got it.
