5 Bodyweight Exercises That Could Be Used As Fitness Exercise Program
This fitness workouts works for people that have a limited amount of time to exercise. If you’re like me with a busy professional and personal life, you don’t have 8 hours per week to workout, unless you’re a pro athlete.
Most people use bodyweight exercises to warm-up. But bodyweight exercises are a great way to improve strength, flexibility and endurance. Bodyweight exercises are really just a form of fitness workouts that are used to develop strength and endurance, where the only resistance to movement is supplied by the weight your own body. When you completed these with other forms of interval training, you’ll find that they can help to burn fat in a short amount of time. Consider using the following bodyweight exercises prior to your workout programs and you’ll be able to get in and out of the gym in 45 - 60 minutes, three times per week.
4 bodyweight exercises
a) Stretcher - Start by sitting up with your legs our in front of you. Your feet should be shoulder width apart. In one motion, lift up your hips and try to push them up to the sky. Keeping your legs STRAIGHT, squeeze your butt and push your feet into the ground. Hold for a few seconds. Come back down to the first position and then repeat. Don’t forget to inhale on the up and exhale on the way down.
b) The Tower - a yoga position that’s perfect for strengthening your neck and your core. Be sure you know how to bail out of this exercise, so you don’t injure yourself. First ensure you have plenty of room. Once you are in the position and feel like you might fall over, either tuck your head and roll, or make a quick ¼ turn and bring you legs down. Place your head and palms on the ground in the shape of a triangle. Next bring you knees up to rest on your elbows and then lean your body back and use your abdominals to bring your legs up. When you are straight, you’ll feel less pressure on your arms and your weight should be even down your body into the ground. Breathe naturally.
c) Press Ups - also known as a push-up. This fat burning exercise is performed in a prone position, lying horizontal and face down. Raise and lower the body using the arms. Push ups develop the pectoral and triceps muscles. There’s also some development of the deltoids. To develop other arm, chest, shoulder and back muscles, you can perform variations of the push-up. Planche press-ups are completed with the feet elevated. Boxer’s push-ups are completed while wearing boxing gloves. This means the exercise is done on your knuckles without using your wrists.
d) Side to Side Jumps (leg | hip exercise)– to get that explosive power and speed, you need to incorporate some kind of jumping into your weekly routine. Find an open area with room to jump left and right. Facing one direction (forward), jump as far as you can to either side and immediately jump the opposite direction. Do this for about 20-50 times.
As you can see, bodyweight exercises are excellent to get use of your entire body. They are exercises you can do at home. After completing them, move into fitness workouts where I recommend at least 3 fat burning exercise are performed twice each with minimum rest between each. This not only cuts your workout time, but maximizes results. This way you only need 20-25 minutes to complete your fat burning exercise.
The best way to burn belly fat is with a combination of strength training and interval training. It’s fast, it works, and it’s fun!
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