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My favorite excuse ever - I don't have time to exercise. Whaaat?
To the rescue, 12 Minute Workouts!! If you truly work as HARD as you can for the full twelve minutes and commit to doing it 4-6 times a week, you really can improve your fitness in about the amount of time you spend picking up your Starbuck's order.
No equipment needed. Set your timer app for 12 rounds of 50 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest. Use the ten second rest to get in position for the next exercise so you are working for the full 50 seconds. Repeat this series twice.
1. Squat jumps - in squat position, reach toward floor with both hands then jump up and reach overhead, land in squat position
2. Push ups - you know the drill, on knees or toes; tight butt, tight gut. Do as many as you can with good form.
3. Crab/table dips - in crab position (sit with knees bent, hands on floor under shoulders with fingers pointing towards heels, then lift bum to make a table from knees to shoulders), alternate bringing one hip pocket to the floor then squeezing back up into table, then other hip pocket to floor and squeeze back up into table
4. Plank jacks - in plank position with hands under shoulders, jumping jack feet, keep abs pulled in hard and try not to pike hips up
5. Floor touch lunges - right lead the first time thru, left lead the second time thru - start standing, bend down and put one hand on the floor as you lunge back with matching foot, other hand on the floor as that matching foot lunges back, [now in a plank], step one foot forward lifting the matching hand, other foot steps forward, stand up
6. One armed triceps/oblique push ups - right lead the first time thru, left lead the second time thru - lie on your side with hips, knees, and ankles stacked, body in long straight line, arm on the floor wrapped around rib cage, other hand on the floor just in from of shoulder, press hand into floor and lift upper body up off the floor then lower, look straight ahead not toward ceiling
