Everyone has 15 minutes to spare during the day. Sometimes you just need to get creative to find them. Fit Tips for 15-Minute Workouts
By WW&C Fitness Bolgger Deborah Brooks, CSCS
Deborah is the real deal. She not only makes it look easy. Try the tips below and you will be surprised at how easy it is to be fit.
If time is what is stopping you from becoming physically active than let go of having to set aside an hour to workout and start thinking in 15 minute increments.
Research has shown that several short workouts a day are as beneficial as one long workout. Sometimes more, since we’re more likely to exercise if we don’t need to find a full hour
Everyone has 15 minutes to spare during the day. Sometimes you just need to get creative to find them.
Here are four suggestions to find the time with some workout ideas to get you started:
1) Set your alarm 15 minutes earlier than usual and do morning yoga poses and gentle stretching. Doing Sun Salutations to greet the day will change your entire day and ease your stiff achy back!
2) Use 15 minutes of your lunch hour to take a one-mile power walk after eating a light meal. Walking is a great fat burner, will help speed up digestion, and keep you from craving an afternoon siesta or needing a caffeine energy boost to get you through the rest of your day.
3) Keep a resistance band in the desk of your home or work office. Take a 15-minute break from the computer to build and tone some muscle by using the band for bicep curls, triceps extensions, lateral shoulder raises and more. You’ll be amazed how much more productive you’ll be at work when you get pumped!
4)Use your kitchen counter as a ballet barre while cooking dinner. It takes 15 minutes to boil a pot of water for pasta. While you wait do knees bends (plies), lunges, squats, leg kicks, backstretches and push-ups using the counter for support and stability. A pre-dinner calorie burn!
Remember, finding those spare 15 minutes during the day to get active will spare you a lifetime of medical ailments due to living a sedentary lifestyle. Sedentary lifestyle is equivalent to smoking 1 pack of cigarettes a day in terms of health risk. Our bodies were meant to move so set your clock, stock your office with a resistance band and get moving!
Deborah Brooks, CSCS
CEO/Founder
edgeworX sport-fitness
NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
ACSM Certified Personal Trainer
UCLA Certified Fitness Instructor
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