Keeping Toned While Working At Home

The Workshifting Fitness Routine offers some ideas to keep toned while working at home on for the holidays. I could have used this reminder last night. My favorite holiday cookie comes with a Hershey’s chocolate kiss on top. I could have used 2 instead of, well, you get the idea.

I am amazed at the Wii technology and Wii Fit will be my next purchase. It’s pretty sassy, one friend of mine said when she starts again this next year, she’ll change her name. Otherwise the program will ask her where she’s been!

But failing the Wii Fit here’s what this article suggested for quick workouts…

When putting together a quick holiday exercise plan the focus was on working the core and building heart rate quickly. We performed a slew of exercises from push-ups with some bicycle kicks in between each rep to leg lifts with the bike kicks. All with a high intensity and short rest time. This got the blood pressure to rise and the lungs to begin to strengthen.

The next best suggestion from Barry was to work as many muscles with each exercise as possible. Remember that we are working in a short window of time. Maybe 20 minutes before breakfast, or a quick break in the action in the afternoon. The more you can accomplish with one group of exercises the better.

We started with a squat to shoulder press. No lie, but this was tough. We started with arms in the air with a broom stick. Then we went down to squat, bringing the bar down. Before we attempted to stand up, we raised the bar and then came back into the start position. Doing a set of 15 really whipped us into a quick sweat, working the legs, core and shoulders with one quick minute long exercise.

When you are creating your hotel workout, look for similar activities to work many areas of the body. There are plenty of add-on exercises and motions that can turn single muscle exercises into multiple with a little creativity and thought.

I’m sweating just thinking about it!

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