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The 10-Minute Home Workout
Ten minutes isn’t a long time, and certainly not long enough to reap the long-term benefits of cardiovascular exercise or get in a solid muscle-building session. However, it is long enough to quickly tone your body and do just enough exercise to jump-start your metabolism.
Quick Cardio Blast: Burn up to 150 calories • Minutes one to two: High-intensity cardio. Jump rope or run up and down stairs. • Minutes three to four: Do as many push-ups as you can. • Minutes five and six: Jump rope or run stairs again. • Minutes seven and eight: Do squats by standing with your back against a wall and squatting as low as you can. Focus on form rather than speed. • Minutes nine and 10: Back to the high-intensity cardio, but this time give it your all. Try to get in 10 more jumps or stairs in the same amount of time.
Tone and Strengthen Do each of these exercises for one minute. The goal is to move continuously through the entire series.
• Squats against a wall: Stand with your back against a wall and squat down as far as you can. • Push-ups: Focus on form, not quantity. Knee pushups are perfectly fine until you have the strength for military style. • Walking lunges with a front kick: Step forward with one leg and lunge until your knee is above your front foot. Stand and kick up, lower your leg and repeat with the other side.
• Crunch: Lie on the floor and do a set of traditional crunches, with your arms behind your head and your knees bent. Lift up your upper torso, squeeze in your abs, breathe out, lower slowly and repeat.
Stretch and Lengthen These five stretches will target the major muscles in your body. Hold each stretch for one minute on each side.
• Squats/Chest squeeze: Hold a weighted object and pull it in towards your chest as you lift up. • Shoulder raises: Keeping your arms straight, lift the weight to the front of your body and hold. Lower slowly and repeat.
• Side raises: Stand with your upper torso parallel to the floor. Raise your arms to your sides with your thumbs pointing up. Squeeze your shoulder blades together and hold. • Triceps Dip: Support yourself on a couch or sturdy chair with both hands behind you, facing away from the chair. Bend your knees and lower yourself using only your arms. Lift and repeat. • Wide-leg squat: Stand with your legs spread open past your shoulders and squat as low as you can.
• Hamstrings: Sit with your legs in front of you and reach for your toes with your hands, keeping your back straight. Then alternate the same stretch on each leg, bending your other leg inwards. • Triceps: Hold one arm under your head, bend it and use your other arm to gently push it back, stretching the muscle on the front of your arm. • Shoulders: Stretch one arm across your chest and hold it in place with your other arm. Gently pull the straight arm toward your chest. • Quadriceps: Stand up and bend one leg back behind you. Grab your ankle and pull the leg in with the same-side arm until you feel a stretch. • Spinal twist: Sit with one leg straight and the other bent. Twist your torso toward your bent leg, supporting yourself by resting the opposite elbow on your leg. Use your other arm to hold yourself up by resting it on the floor behind you.
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