Looking for ways to rev up your workout routine? Try these tips from Life Time Fitness Personal Trainer, Kirstin Dragasakis.

Write down your goals for your workouts: monthly, weekly, daily. Focusing on what your body can DO, rather than how it looks or the number on the scale, can be more empowering. Maybe your goal is to be able to do military pushups? Maybe you want to be able to do one pull-up? Run your first 5k? There are tons of goals that relate to performance rather than appearance.

Always doing the same workout? Boring! Both your mind and body will become uninterested! Try something new! Take a new class! Work out with a buddy and have THEM pick the exercises, or you pick one, then they pick one, etc. Look for exercise routines in Experience Life magazine. Set up a session with a trainer. You need to keep progressing your routine, or you will stop seeing progress in your physique!

Short on time? If you want cardio: do intervals! Go all out for 30 seconds, recover for 60 and repeat. Do this 10-15 times. For strength training: pick 5 compound movements (i.e. multi-joint – a squat rather than a leg extension) and do them all in a row. Repeat 2-3X.

Ready to get serious with your strength training routine? Keep track of ALL your workouts (I like the format of the Eat Clean Workout Journal, but there are other journals out there, or just use a notebook). Write down exercises, weights, sets, and reps. Star your new "personal records"! Make notes when it gets too easy – that means you need to increase the weight next time!

Good luck!

Kirstin Dragasakis is a Personal Trainer at Life Time Fitness in Chanhassen, MN.