STRONG IDEA: Improvise Your Exercise
By Emily Stapleton on September 16, 2013 from Strong Ideas
- Some exercise is always better than none. Ten minutes of activity will boost your mood and your metabolism.
- You can get your sweat on in a 4 foot square inside your house.
- Kids (and spouses, and co-workers) can and should exercise with you.
- Jog in place
- Scissors
- High knees
- Kick in the butt
- Jumping Jacks
- **Repeat the series**
- Squats
- Alternating Lunges
- Slow Burpees (focus on form, rather than speed)
- Plank (high or low)
- Side planks (30 sec. on right side, 30 sec. on left)
- Push-ups (modify and take breaks as needed)
- Tricep Dips
- **Repeat the series**
- Open arms
- Side stretch (each side)
- Flat back
- Middle stretch
- Walk body to right for deep hamstring stretch
- Walk body to left for deep hamstring stretch
- Right side runners stretch
- Reach right arm up
- Reach left arm up
- Repeat runners stretch on left side
- Calf stretch on each side
- Burpees
- Push-ups
- Mountain Climbers
- Planks
- Squats
- High Jumps
- Lunges
- Come up with your own…wing it
- 3 minutes of cardio (ex. Running in place, running steps, high knees, mtn. climbers) – make this intense
- 2 minute wall sit
- 1 minute plank (high or low)
- 10 push-ups
- Stretch (wide open arms, contract and relax the back, middle hamstring stretch, right side and left side hamstring stretch)
- Take 3 deep breaths
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