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Advent Christmas Challenge 2021:
12 Sessions of Christmas Challenge

Something a little different this year. I am teaming up with the guys at Any Given Training Day to offer you a little more!

While there are options to do the follow along sessions below, with the last two years, you might be sick of follow-along sessions. Or you may want to try something new. Enter the 12 Sessions of Christmas Challenge.

The idea behind the 12 sessions of Christmas Challenge is to get people moving more and spend 20 minutes on themselves every second day leading up to Christmas Day. One of the reasons we have done the Advent Challenges in the past is because people stop training completely in December. It’s a stressful time. A lot can be going on and sure what’s the point in training when you are going to “undo” all of it with the extra food and drink? We think this is a terrible way to look at training for a number of reasons. You’re going to feel worse in January during “new year, new me” and push too hard to catch up in your training. This can lead to injuries, burnout or just hating your training and quitting when that wave of motivation leaves. We talk more about this on a recent episode of the Any Given Runday Podcast that you can find on Spotify HERE and Apple Podcasts HERE.

And you are going to feel worse during the month of December as well! Getting out and moving should be much more than just what the scales show. More energy, more productive, feeling better! And yes, this can be achieved with just 20 minutes of activity every second day, giving you 12 sessions before Christmas!

What activity you may ask? ANY!!

It doesn’t matter if it’s a gym session, walk, run, cycle, follow along workout or even if you dare go for a swim! As long as you intend to move for up to roughly 20 minutes in 12 days of Advent.

Accountability:
There are a few ways you can get involved in the challenge and stay accountable. Either tag us in your Instagram stories/posts when you have done a workout (@AnyGivenTrainingDay) or you can join our Strava Club HERE.

And that’s it. 20 Minutes to get more active, feel more energetic and give yourself a good foundation to set goals for yourself in 2022!

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Advent Christmas Challenge 2019!

The 2019 Advent Challenge is a little different to the original Advent Challenge (Original with all 24 5 minute workouts below). The workouts are slightly harder and change format each week. They are still suitable for all fitness levels and will push you to move more. They are also only on the weekdays leading up to Christmas Eve, meaning that you have the weekend for catch up sessions on any you may have missed. Or get the steps in instead with the 12 pubs… I mean, Christmas shopping!

Week 1

In Week 1 of the Advent Challenge, we are doing 10 reps of different exercises each day. Some will work more on core, others on cardio, lower body or a mix! Click on the video to check out the exercises in the description.

Week 2

In week 2, we change up the format of the exercises. On Day 6, Day 8, and Day 10 we are doing different Tabata exercises after a 1 minute warm up. They are definitely the cardio days. A Tabata is doing an exercise for 20 seconds, resting for 10 and doing that for 8 sets (4 minutes). There are two different exercises in each 4 minute Tabata. For Day 7 and Day 9, they are more strength based, working on primarily lower body on Day 7, and upper body and core on Day 9.

Week 3

In week 3, we are picking two exercises each day and blasting through 10 reps of each exercise before going into 8 reps each and then 6, 4, and 2 reps. We have a finisher each day plus 5 exercises to get us warmed up in the first minute. The target areas change each day but there’s an element of cardio in each day as well as lower body training. If you find I am going too fast during the 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 workout, just do how many reps you can do and change exercise when I do.

Original Advent Christmas Challenge!

Welcome to the Coach Seán Advent Christmas Challenge! 

Christmas is usually a time where our fitness goes by the way side as the hectic season full of work parties, catch ups and last minute shopping take priority. So I have designed this challenge because no matter how busy we all claim to be, you can always afford 5 minutes of your time to improving you!

All 24 Advent Christmas Challenge videos are available for FREE by clicking on the pictures below. 

Each workout is only 5 minutes long, progressively getting more difficult as you get closer to Christmas. If you find a day too easy or want to get a little more in, go for an extra round!

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