Stay in Shape with these Simple Home Workout Ideas

Work Out At Home

So you’re very busy, or you’re not a morning person, and most of all there is just no time to fool with going to the gym. So what is left? What is left is the twenty minute work out at home to keep you fit and healthy. Its an exercise routine that can be done twice a day. You will do it once before you run off to work and once again in the evening.

The exercises are simple and are presently being performed in aerobics classes, gyms and martial arts clubs. This home exercise is for improving your cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance as well as toning the body.

When doing these exercises be sure to work as hard as you possibly can then rest for thirty seconds before you go on to the next routine. Do them correctly with proper form. Be specifically careful to do the bridges and squat thrusts correctly. Be sure to breathe deeply and naturally throughout the exercise.

This exercise routine works the whole body; it helps your cardiovascular system, tones your body and strengthens it.

Begin by jogging in place for three minutes. Just a light jog in one spot.

Next, do twenty five jumping jacks. Be sure to bend your knees slightly when landing, this will have less impost on the knee joints.

You are now ready to do fifteen crunches by lying on your back with your knees bent. You hands should be behind your head with the elbows pointing outward. Your hands should support your head. Your neck and spine should be in a straight line. Raise your upper torso from the mat and lower yourself until the back of your shoulders touch the mat. Muscles worked: abdominals.

Our next exercise routine is the hip bridges or which you will to ten repeats. Lay on your back with you hands at ninety degree angle to the floor. Lift you body off the floor being sure it is in a straight line making a bridge from the shoulders to the knee. You position should look like a table with your hands and legs as the legs of the table. Your body and your knees are the surface of the table. Holding this position for two seconds squeeze your butt muscles (glutes) now lower yourself. Muscle worked: lower back, glutes and hamstrings.

Following these exercises you will do one minute of step ups and fifteen repeats of reverse crunches (reverse above crunches).