fitness, working out, 5-minute workout The perfect 5-minute workout that you can do multiple times a day if you desire
No one wants to exercise in the cold, but if you're building the habit , you know you can't skip a day. This 5-minute workout can help you do just that - keep you on the path you've worked so hard to get started on and don't want to give up now.
Of course, rest days are necessary and obligatory, and of course, there will be times when putting on sports clothes and finding time to move will be impossible (hello Christmas). But winter in general is difficult for the desire to exercise.
However, on those days when you can set aside a total of half an hour to get ready, exercise and take a relaxing shower afterwards, but the low temperatures, the desire to stay on the couch or tiredness want to stop you, three exercises can make you change your mind.
The routine works your entire body and will make you burn a few calories, but most importantly, it will keep you active and help you get your system used to physical exercise, so that after a while, not only will it not be hard for you to go to the gym or to the room in your house where you train, but you will look forward to the moment to get started.
Trainer Lucy Gornall , who created this effective 5-minute workout, calls it a “workout snack” – and if you were to compare a full 30-40 minute workout to a main meal, this would then be just a snack, enough to tide you over until you can eat/workout to your heart’s content.
But don't think that you won't end up exhausted, that's what these short circuits are all about, they are quite intense even if you only have to do a couple or three movements. As always, you can adapt them to your level by doing easier versions, reducing the time or on the contrary adding difficulty with weights or more repetitions (90 seconds instead of 30).
To do them you only need to grab your sports clothes, your mat or mattress, and your playlist of motivational music to give it your all for a little while. You won't have any excuses.
Squats + kneeling : 3x30 seconds and 10-15 seconds rest
Superman : 3x30 seconds (holding 6 in position) and 10-15 rest
Hollow hold : 3x30 seconds and 10-15 rest
[via GQ Spain]
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