Not seeing the result that you want in the gym or on the scale?  Are you dripping with sweat when you finish your workout?  Do you feel like you have accomplished something when you finish a workout?  If you answered no to any of these questions, you might be ready for a change in your routine.

As any one of my clients can tell you, I am a big proponent of interval training.  If you are not familiar with the term, “interval training” is basically when you do several exercises in succession at a higher intensity, and then have a brief period of rest in between.  This allows you to work several areas of the body rather quickly, which will get your heart rate up faster. 

This can be done in several fashions.  If your goal is to put on lean muscle and build strength, you can use weights and higher resistance exercises with lower repetitions.  Or if the goal is to get faster, you can do a workout simply with plyometric exercises (lots of jumps, lunges, and fast movements).  It all depends on your goals.  With most of my clients, I try to mix I up and get a little bit of all of it depending on what they want to achieve.

So rather than picking one exercise, doing 3 sets and then moving on to the next, pick 3 exercises each for a different movement or body part and do them right in a row at a high intensity or difficult resistance.  Once you finish those 3, take a 30 second rest and repeat that sequence 1 or 2 more times.