Christmas Home Workout
By Bevan Chen
With Christmas and New Year’s just around the corner, life can get a little busy with work, celebrations, and parties. This usually means that the good exercise routine you worked hard for gets thrown out the window, and we all know how difficult it is to get back into the groove again.
There are a few tips to help you get through the festive season this year, and let you feel better about yourself when the new year comes around. In fact, you could even do the same to get you started in a consistent exercise routine.
When looking at a Christmas Home Workout, the two most important things are consistency and simplicity.
Instead of completely ditching your exercise routine because it takes too long, or it is too tiring to do; try to maintain a simplified version. Generally, an exercise routine consists of multiple exercises targeting a large group of muscles. This will usually end up taking a significantly long time and leave you feeling a little tired. The best way to fix this problem is to simplify the exercises and choose the most important exercises that will benefit you the most. Look for exercises that target large muscle groups that go through two joints (e.g., shoulders and elbows, hips and knees). This will get your entire body moving with the least number of exercises. Limit yourself between 3 to 5 exercises and aim to perform these exercises at least once a day. This should take you 10 to 20 minutes a day, leaving you with the rest of the day to do everything else you are busy with!
Below is an example of a home and gym-based routine you could try:
Home:
Squats (Sit to stand, half squats)
Push up (incline push up, bench push up)
Dumbbell row* (Theraband row)
Gym:
Barbell squats (leg press, hack squat)
Barbell chest press (machine press, dumbbell press)
Barbell row (seated row, machine row)
10 repetitions
1 – 3 sets
* if you don’t have a dumbbell, use a 2 or 3lt milk bottle and fill it with either water or sand .
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