Random Workouts: Using Wheel Spinners to Mix Up Your Exercise Routine

Working out is essential to keep a fit and healthy body. Once you are 25 and above, your body loses the incredible healing potential that it had during your teens. 

As a result, you start getting injured more and you lose a lot of your flexibility. To avoid this, you need to start working out regularly. Regular workouts keep your body limber and flexible. It is good for your blood flow as well. 

However, working out can become really boring really fast for some people. They need someone or something to keep things interesting. One way to keep things interesting is randomization with the help of a wheel spinner.

Let’s learn what are the various things you can randomize in your workout routine to keep things interesting. 

How a Wheel Spinner Can Help With Random Workouts

An online wheel spinner like spin-the-wheel.net  is a tool that lets you create a wheel and add any kind of text or image to its slices. You can add a huge number of slices as well. Most wheel spinners let you save any custom wheels you create, but you might have to register and create an account first. 

Given below are a few custom wheel ideas for randomizing your workout. 

1. Create a Spinner For Each Day

Workout routines are usually sorted by days. For example, a person may choose to do specific exercises on a specific day only. The idea behind this is to diversify which muscles you are training so that strained muscles can relax.

This also helps you to keep your body balanced. After all, if you only did upper body exercises, your lower body would be unable to hold the increased weight. This could result in joint pain and bone deformation.

If you create a wheel spinner that lists all your exercises for each day on its slices, you can randomize which day’s exercises you will do first. Modern spin-the-wheel tool allow you to hide slices once they have been picked so there won’t be any problem with repetition either.

This type of randomization will mix up your weekly schedule and make it more interesting. Your pre and post-workout rituals will also change accordingly, so you will be breaking the mold of your routine, which can be interesting and enjoyable.

2. Create a Spinner For Different Muscle Groups 

Another wheel you can create to add some spice to your workout routine is the muscle group wheel. In this wheel, you add exercises of each muscle group to a wheel slice. 

Then you spin the wheel and start working out on the muscle groups that it lands on. So say, if the wheel lands on “leg day,” you do leg exercises. So your adductors, quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves will get a workout.

This way you can randomize which muscles you work on a particular day. Of course, take care not to strain the same muscle groups the next time you work out.

Depending on how you approach your workout, you might need to create a lot of wheels or just a single one. If you are working on a lot of muscle groups at once, then a simple wheel won’t do because it might repeat the same exercises over and over. So you will need to create a few different wheels all with different sets of exercises on them and there should be no overlap between them. 

3. Create a Spinner for Warm-up Exercises

Another wheel you can create to add some zest to your workout is the warm-up wheel. Every person has a few different ways of warming up before doing a workout. 

Some people like to do stretches, others do a light jog, and some even do a bit of calisthenics. Instead of limiting yourself to one method of warming up, you can use all of them.

Here’s where you can use the wheel. Simply add all warmup exercises to the wheel and spin it. Whichever warm-up routine it lands on is the one you will do on that day. 

Use this wheel every time you start a workout and choose a random warm-up. This will help you keep things interesting and non-repetitive. 

4. Supplement Work Out Spinners with Timer Spinner

Sometimes, you are just not in the mood to work out. You just want to avoid doing it at all. But as the saying goes “anything worth doing is worth doing poorly”.

Instead of doing your workout the usual length of time, you can use a time wheel. You write down either how many sets you will do (if the exercise is reps-based), or how long will you do it (if it is endurance-based).

It would be better to create both wheels and use the one which is more relevant. Spin the wheel and do your next exercise for only the amount of time the winning entry states.

Conclusion

Wheel spinners are available a dime and dozen and can be used on your phones easily. You can use them to randomize your workout and make it more interesting. Use the ideas given above to get started.