Before you paint, carve, smash, or bake your pumpkin this year, why don’t you pump it?

A pumpkin makes an instant substitution for a medicine ball workout as they come in similar sizes and shapes.

Here are a few tricks you (and your little goblins) can do with your PUMPkins, pumpkin:

• Front squats
• Squat to overhead press
• Overhead squats
• Lunges (forward, backward, walking)
• Deadlifts (including single leg deadlifts)
• Swings (starting in a squat position, hold the pumpkin between your legs then thrust arms up above your head ending in a standing position)
• Overhead presses
• Shoulder presses (two-handed or single-handed depending on the size of your pumpkin)
• Overhead tricep presses
• Bicep curls
• Push up variations (both hands on the pumpkin, one hand on the pumpkin/one hand on the ground, feet on pumpkin/hands on the ground)
• Chest presses
• Calf raises
• Lumberjack chops
• Mountain climbers (hands on pumpkin/feet on floor)
• Crunches
• Planks (hands on pumpkin/feet on the ground)

I hope you’ll carve out some time and add in some pumpkin and spice to your workouts this season. A pumpkin workout just might lift your spirits and have you looking even more gordgeous in no time.