Holiday Fitness Frenzy
Think you have no time to fit fitness into your schedule this holiday season? Think again! Incorporate this 30 minute workout into your daily routine and get a total body workout. You can do this workout while listening to your favorite Christmas music, while baking healthy cookies, or even after wrapping presents. You won’t need any equipment to do any of the exercises……just a chair, your body, and some motivation. So get on it before heading out to your holiday party and feel an immediate mood boost!
Complete each of the exercises 20 times and then move onto the next exercise. Complete the entire season 2 times if you are a beginner or intermediate. If you are advanced, you will complete the series 3 times.
- Squats (make sure your knees are behind your toes and your quads/thighs are parallel to the floor)
- Pushups (beginner- on your knees, intermediate & advanced- on your toes)
- Pulse lunges (get into lunge position and lower your body up and down keeping your knee behind your toe and lowering body so that front leg is parallel to floor)
- Dips (use a chair or a couch and make sure your elbows are lowered into a 90 degree angle)
- Superman’s (lie flat on tummy on the floor and raise straightened arms and legs off the ground in a quick motion)
- Russian Twists (sit on your tailbone and lift feet off the ground. rotate your body right and then left so that your finger tips touch the floor beside your hips)
- Calf Raises (raise your entire body up onto your toes so that you are flexing your calves. hold onto any surface to ensure balance)
- Bridge/Plank (make sure body is parallel to the floor so that you are not dipping your lower back down too far or arching it too high)
**If you’d like a little more of a challenge, add 30 seconds to 1 minute of jumping jacks, jump rope, or star jumps between each exercise. This will burn an extra 100-150 calories!
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