For Best Body Challengers!

(Or anyone else who wants a quick workout).

Watch the video below for exercise instruction, then follow these instructions:

1. Do each of the warm-up examples for 1 minute
2. Complete at least 10 repetitions of the 5 exercises in the video
3. Repeat step 2 for 3-5 sets, depending on the intensity/amount of time you have.
4. Spend 5 minutes in cool down and stretching
5. Post comments below.

I decided it makes more sense to have these all on one page. Here are some quick videos with instruction on how to do exercises correctly and info on how to put it all together. Post your comments below!

Wood Chops

Ice Skaters

Upper Body

Triceps Pushups

Walking Lunge with Overhead Press

Putting it all together: Now you have the individual pieces and it’s time to put it all together.

Begin with exercises 1 and 2, the wood chop and the ice skaters. Complete one minute of each exercise, then repeat twice. This will give you a 6-minute warm up of both upper and lower body.

Do as many pushups/side planks as you can (exercise #3) in good form. You can begin the exercise on your toes and as you get tired, drop down to the knees. Once you start to lose it in your middle, the exercise is over because with bad form, you only risk injury.

Follow this with either the triceps pushup or the walking lunge with overhead press. Again, for both of these, you will want to complete 2-3 sets of up to 15 repetitions of each exercise. If you can’t do 15 reps of the pushups or triceps pushups just now, don’t worry about it. Do as many as you can in good form and do one more tomorrow. Add on as your strength increases.

Throughout all of these exercises, it is crucial that you keep a bit of tension in your core. Keep that up through the entire workout and you’ll be getting an abdominal workout without even trying.

Once you’ve done your 3 sets of each exercise, stretch for about 5 minutes and you’re done. Quick, efficient and challenging.

To your health!
Gin

P.S. Let me know what you think of the workout and if you decide to take on the challenge of doing these exercises every day for a couple of weeks, tell me what improvements you see in your body, your mind and your strength.

The Perfect Push-up

Mountain Climber