Exercise: love it or hate it, most of the time we do it because we want to burn off some extra calories and we want to do it in the most efficient way possible. By incorporating the following exercises into your daily routine you won’t even have to step on the scale to know you’re losing weight!
Sometimes we really are short on time, but that’s what short workouts are for. If you can only find minutes to work out all you need to do is increase the intensity of your exercise. Go as hard as you can for about 30 seconds and then give yourself a recovery period. By doing this, studies have found that changes can be found in your muscle’s DNA to help improve your metabolism if you can work out for just 20 minutes.
If 4 minutes of high-intensity training, followed by 20 seconds of max training, and then a 10 second rest sounds like your kind of workout, then Tabata is for you. This workout burns up to 13 and a half calories per minute, and by repeating the process two or three times you get a quick workout that helps build your muscle and drop weight.
Want to burn 400 calories in 20 minutes? Then start working out your lower back, legs, and shoulders with kettlebells. They’re proven to help build your strength and endurance while also allowing you to move across multiple planes. "You're moving in different planes of movement," says Laura Wilson, the director of programming for KettleWorX. "Instead of just going up and down, you're going to move side to side and in and out, so it's much more functional. It's like you move in real life: kettlebells simulate that movement, unlike a dumbbell."
Just by jumping around and using explosive movements you can lose up to ten calories a minute with plyometrics. By doing exercises like box jumps and jumping jacks you’re building up your muscle and losing weight. Remember to keep your movements quick and land softly when landing to use your core and leg muscles.
Sometimes we really are short on time, but that’s what short workouts are for. If you can only find minutes to work out all you need to do is increase the intensity of your exercise. Go as hard as you can for about 30 seconds and then give yourself a recovery period. By doing this, studies have found that changes can be found in your muscle’s DNA to help improve your metabolism if you can work out for just 20 minutes.
Find two different sets of exercises and do one right after the other. This superset is considered a high intensity interval training (or HIIT). Not only does your strength workout gain a cardio boost, but you’re losing weight at the same time.
If 4 minutes of high-intensity training, followed by 20 seconds of max training, and then a 10 second rest sounds like your kind of workout, then Tabata is for you. This workout burns up to 13 and a half calories per minute, and by repeating the process two or three times you get a quick workout that helps build your muscle and drop weight.
Want to burn 400 calories in 20 minutes? Then start working out your lower back, legs, and shoulders with kettlebells. They’re proven to help build your strength and endurance while also allowing you to move across multiple planes. "You're moving in different planes of movement," says Laura Wilson, the director of programming for KettleWorX. "Instead of just going up and down, you're going to move side to side and in and out, so it's much more functional. It's like you move in real life: kettlebells simulate that movement, unlike a dumbbell."
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