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Burn Fat in 15 Minutes

This tough workout is so effective. It gets the heart pumping, burns fat, and builds important lean muscle tissue. This short circuit has no rests, which keeps the heart pumping and burns calories.

Equipment required

  • Stability ball
  • Medicine ball
  • Skipping rope
  • Exercise mat

The workout

  • Skip for 4-5 minutes to warm up the muscles.
  • Perform thirty high jumps non-stop to work the heart. This requires mental strength to perform the exercise correctly. Try to jump to waist height. Motivate yourself with mantras.
  • Grab your medicine ball and jump on the stability ball. Roll the ball over your abs and push the medicine ball over your head. Perform 20-30 non-stop.
  • These are tough. Press-ups on a stability ball. Place your hands on the exercise mat, your feet on the stability ball. Steadily push down into press-up position without your legs falling off stability ball. Raise up and then pull your legs in to your chest slowly on the ball, then push out again. That’s one rep. Try to do 5-10. These are very tough but work effectively to tone the core muscles.
  • Perform thirty squat thrusts to further kill the arm muscles after press-ups.
  • Do 20-30 tricep dips on the stability ball. If you can hold your legs out straight for a harder burn or keep the knees bent for an effective exercise.
  • To finish off, perform 20-30 squats. Place your hands behind your head and squat down so that your thighs are parallel with your feet. Keep the back straight and feel the burn in your thighs and buttocks.

How’s that for a short, intensive, fat burning, muscle building workout?

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Short Intensive Workouts

Short bursts of training is just as effective as a longer session. For example, thirty minutes of running can be broke up into three ten minute sessions throughout the day. Obviously, not everyone has the time to break up a workout, but this can work wonders for your metabolism.

You don’t even need to join a gym to work out your body just thirty minutes per day. Here’s an easy example of how to cram thirty minutes of effective training per day. Rather than take the car, walk 5-10 minute journey to the shops. Grab a skipping rope and skip for ten minutes in the afternoon non stop. Later in the afternoon, perform set a timer for ten minutes and perform squats, press-ups, jumping jacks, squat thrusts, and sit-ups until fatigue. Read the rest of this entry »

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An Intense Workout

Even thought I’ve had quite a long break from my workouts, this was still intense and got the heart pumping. This workout incorporates three sets of skipping, press-ups, squat thrusts, weighted squats, bicep curls, sit-ups, shadow boxing, and turkish get up. This workout should take around 45-60 minutes.

Equipment required

  • Skipping rope
  • stability ball (optional)
  • Boxing gloves (optional)
  • hand weights

The Workout

  • Perform 10 minutes of skipping to warm up, or about three song lengths. Try not to have a break in between. Skipping is great for building the calf muscles, tones the buttocks and thighs, and burns a shit lot of calories. Read the rest of this entry »

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