Fast Holiday Fitness
With the hectic holiday season fast approaching you may find it difficult to find time to exercise. Instead of making the mistake of fitting your regular workout regime into your unpredictable schedule, do the wise thing of changing your exercise schedule to make it more compatible with your busier routine.
You can stay active even during the holiday season by including key elements of cardio, strength training and flexibility training in your workouts.
Quick, Extra Calorie Burning Exercises:
• Interval training is extremely time-efficient and can be carried out up to 3 times a week. You can complete this workout in 25-30 minutes.
Most cardio machines like treadmill, bike, Stairmaster etc have an interval program option where you can work out at a high speed for a couple minutes and then slow down to recover for a couple more minutes. This up-and-down interval workout has enormous benefits for your heart and is also a mega calorie burner.
If you do not have a machine to work out on, you can do the interval training on your own. Some simple aerobic-type movements like jumping jacks, jump rope, knee lifts can work as high-intensity workout and march in place and heel tap as the low-intensity interval. You can also substitute jog, run, sprint, and speed-walk for high intensity and walk or jog slowly for low intensity workout.
• Strength training like lunges, push-ups and FIT ball exercises can be done for 20-30 minutes a maximum of twice a week. The new trend in fitness for strength training is multi-group exercises. This kind of exercise is able to target many muscle groups with one exercise and burn more calories than exercising isolated body parts individually.
• Flexibility training like yoga positions, stretching etc incorporates strength and flexibility in the body. Yoga is an excellent stress-relieving option during the holiday season. Flexibility helps prevent injury and it is useful to stretch in the beginning of the workout and again at the end.
Add exercise to your “to do” list during holidays and give it the same importance as your other errands. Maximize your time by taking stairs instead of the escalator, take a short break from work and walk around your office etc. There are many tempting foods and you should not deprive yourself of them. But, make sure that you enjoy the moment of splurging, and then return to your holiday fitness schedule.
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