A Valentine’s Partner Workout on Total Gym
A Valentine’s Workout Date: Strength, Core & Partner Power
The partner workout that beats dinner reservations.
Maria Sollon, MS, CSCS, PES
Roses Are Red. Violets Are Blue.
Strong is attractive and sweat is too.
Skip the prix-fixe menu and predictable roses this year.
This Valentine’s Day, choose a date that builds real chemistry, the kind you feel in your muscles and your mindset. We’re talking a Workout Date that’s calorie-free, sweat-approved, and confidence-boosting. Plus, it’s far more memorable than reservations you’ll forget by Friday.
This Total Gym partner workout blends strength training, core work, and interactive partner moves designed to challenge the body while creating connection through movement. You’ll work up a sweat together while training at your own strength levels. It’s a fun, effective way to support each other, laugh a little, and get stronger together.
Nothing bonds like shared effort and a little post-workout glow.
Partner Workouts Work
Training with a partner isn’t about matching strength. It’s about shared rhythm. Here are a few key benefits you can expect when you move strong together:
• Increase motivation. You show up differently when someone’s counting on you.
• Improve focus and effort through built-in accountability.
• Add variety and play without sacrificing intensity.
• Create connection that carries beyond the workout itself.
Using the Total Gym for a partner workout becomes a dynamic training experience you share and build together. Each partner can adjust the incline to match their individual strength level, allowing both people to be challenged appropriately at the same time. This keeps the workout effective, balanced, and accessible for all fitness levels.
The Partner Workout Date
This workout date isn’t about candles or clichés. It’s about energy, intention, and showing up for your body and for each other.
This Total Gym partner workout includes everything you’ll love:
• Full-body strength to build power and confidence
• Core work that challenges stability, control, and coordination
• Partner-assisted movements that encourage trust, timing, and teamwork
• Just enough play to keep it fun and just enough intensity to feel accomplished
It’s a workout date guaranteed to make you sweat. Get ready to train, move, and finish stronger together.
FORMAT
5-Minute Timed Circuits
Reps: 10–15 per exercise
Sets: As many quality rounds as possible within the time
DIRECTIONS
• Set a timer for 5-minutes per circuit.
• Circuit: One partner works upper body on the Total Gym while the other works lower body on the floor, creating a superset-style challenge.
• Switch: When the 5-minute round is complete, take a short break, reset the timer, then switch positions and repeat the second part.
• Core Finisher: Once both partners complete each part of the superset circuit, finish strong together with a set of core moves using either:
3-minute timed set, or
A set number of controlled reps (suggested: 15 reps)
• Adapt the exercises to challenge your own strength by adjusting the incline level or body positioning (ex: seated, kneeling, high kneeling, feet down, knees up).
• Refer to the video for a demonstration of how these exercises are performed.
This workout can be a one-and-done date, or repeated for multiple rounds if you’re feeling strong, energized, and want to keep sweating together!
Follow Along
Want to train together? Follow this full partner workout on my YouTube channel, @groovysweat.
POWER PARTNER MOVES
Upper Body: Total Gym (TG)
1. High Pull Row
2. Bicep Curl
3. Chest Press or Flies
4. Tricep Extension
5. Pullover Crunch
Lower Body: Floor
(Optional: add hand weights or extra resistance.)
1. Squats / Squat Pulses
2. Stationary Lunges (Right / Left)
3. Plie Squats
4. Straight Leg Deadlift (option: single leg)
5. Bridge Lifts
Core Finisher: Together
1. Hollow Body Crunch (TG & Floor)
2. Partner Torso Rotation (Right / Left) (Note: partner at the top of Glideboard grabs the back cable)
Make It a Full Workout Date
The workout is just the beginning. Why not make this date extra special by pairing your training session with one (or a few) of these simple, feel-good ideas:
1. Cook Something Light & Delicious
Colorful, nourishing, and unfussy. Bonus points for sharing prep duties.
2. Share a Sweet (Not Overdone) Treat
A square of dark chocolate. Fresh berries. Something indulgent, but intentional.
3. Take an Adventure Walk
Explore a new route in your neighborhood or city. No phones. Just movement and conversation.
4. Take the Strength With You
Let the workout set the tone for whatever comes next.
5. DIY Post-Workout Recovery Spa
Foam rolling, stretching, calming music, maybe a little essential oil moment and massage. Recovery counts.
Strong Looks Good on You Both
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate connection through movement and let strength become the love language. This workout date will leave you both stronger long after the sweat dries.
Choose a date built on effort, energy, and showing up together. Train hard, laugh a little, and leave stronger in your body and your connection.
Love Always,
Maria
@groovysweat
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