‘Eat a Whole Pizza’ workout is probably the workout of your dreams.

Fitness has always been about maintaining a strict and healthy diet while diligently heading to the gym or going for yoga. But if you are a diehard foodie, who cannot resist food at all, moreover, your food is all about more and more intake of carbs, then it’s a fair game to indulge in a cheat meal after a strenuous workout session once in a while. Not many know that a whole wheat or whole grain pizza crust with veggie toppings can be a great post-workout meal or snack. Traditionally, carbohydrates and fats are removed from one’s plate during exercise but the right amount of carbohydrates and proteins help in accelerated recovery of muscles and also act as great fuel. Keeping this in mind, fitness experts have come up with the idea of ‘eat a whole pizza’ post-exercising trend.

If you’ve ever wanted to eat a whole pizza and feel totally justified about it, then this workout is for you. You don’t need to climb a mountain, run a half marathon or complete a century ride. But you will need some serious stamina because this workout burns approximately 1,330 calories (depending on the person’s weight) – the average amount of calories in three quarters of a medium pepperoni pizza from any major pizza chain. You’re going to eat a quarter of the pizza(two servings), so this workout will burn off the rest.This workout isn’t for the fainthearted. It’s brutal.

The workout comprises of four parts

PART 1: Body-Weight Circuit Warm-up

For the warm-up part, you have to perform eight reps for each exercise listed below, doing any of your choice.

Body-weight squat

Push-up

Lateral lunge

Front-to-back leg swing

When you finish all the exercises, take rest of mere 30 seconds and repeat. The estimated time for warm-up is 4 minutes, 30 seconds which can take approximately 5 minutes when rounded off.

PART 2: Main Lift

This section starts with squats, followed by alternate supersets of upper-body and leg exercises. For each exercise, choose a weight that allows you to finish all the sets and reps with good form- a good approximation is 75% of one-rep.

For lower-body exercises, perform straight sets, resting one minute between sets. For the supersets, go without resting and then rest for 30 seconds between supersets. Some of the leg exercises that you can do are:

Barebell front squat

Rear-foot elevated split squat

Dumbbell step-up

Barbell or dumbbell reverse lunge

Approximate time for finishing up of this part is 40-60 minutes.

PART 3: Tabata-Inspired Finisher

This body-weight finisher is great after a long-workout because it relies heavily on lower-body movements where there are more muscles. Perform as many reps of each exercise as possible for 20 seconds, rest for 10 seconds and then switch to next exercise. Repeat twice. Rest for one minute and repeat again. Some of the exercises that you can do are:

Burpees

Body-weight squats

Mountain climbers

Speed skips

PART 4: Run a 5K

Run, crawl or walk for 5 km. doing this is like getting to the finish line and winning a race.

This is among the toughest workout that anyone can opt for but do remember that don’t gorge on a wheat base pizza with unhealthy toppings like that of cheese, butter etc. and instead, go for thin-crust whole wheat or whole grain pizza with vegetable toppings drizzled with some extra virgin olive oil.