Circuit training timer

How to use the online timer

Sixty seconds at a station, fifteen seconds to get to the next, six stations round: circuit training keeps the heart rate up through the transitions rather than letting it drop while equipment is rearranged. That fifteen seconds is short on purpose. It is enough to walk to the next mat, pick up a different weight and get set, and it is what separates a circuit from six separate exercises done one after another with a chat in between.

Ordering the stations so consecutive ones ask different things of the body is what lets the intensity stay high. Legs, then something for the upper body, then core, then legs again keeps any one area from working flat out twice in a row while the rest of you waits. Set the whole circuit up before starting, since a station that needs three minutes of hunting for a resistance band ruins the rhythm entirely.

Six stations is one lap; most sessions run two or three laps with a minute or two between them. Form degrades station by station as fatigue builds, and the honest response is to drop the weight or the pace on the station where it happens rather than pushing through with a rounded back. Note which station falls apart first, because that is usually the one worth training separately.