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Morning routine at home

  • 14-06-2011 12:13am
    #1
    Kimia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,897 ✭✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I got some great advice here the last time I posted so I'm hoping some of you experts will be back to help this time! I am working on keeping myself in shape - I am continuing to do about 3-4 45 minute fast walks each week and I am returning to pilates this weekend, so I feel like I'm definitely back on track.

    I was hoping to add in a fast routine in the mornings before work. What would you recommend to build strength for about 10-15 minutes every morning - any suggestions on a nice strengthening routine for a girl? I'm thinking something that uses my own bodyweight against me, as I don't have any equipment.

    Thanks :)


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  • #2
    Smyth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 714 ✭✭✭Smyth


    crunches, pushups, chair dips, squats, stretches. Use different variants on all of them. Definitely enough to get the blood going in the morning anyway. Get a doorway pull up bar and add that if you're up to it. Even better, get a skipping rope. If you do 15 minutes of that every morning, you'll be going to work a lot more alert.


  • #3
    Apanachi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭Apanachi


    Smyth wrote: »
    Even better, get a skipping rope.

    I've been meaning to get fit for a while now, I'm of slim build, but getting older and sitting at an office desk 8 hours a day is starting to take it's toll (flabby belly and "love handles") legs and bum could do with a tone up too.

    I was considering buying a good pair of runners and taking up jogging, but knowing me I'd use them 2-3 times and they'd end up in the press as I don't have the condition to go jogging and don't want to get into my expensive training gear jog about 100 metres before crawling back home exhausted , so I decided to put off jogging until my overall fitness has improved a little.

    I don't have any kind of routine and wasn't sure if I should concentrate on stomach, legs, bum etc, but decided a bit of cardio training would be a good way to start

    How good is using a skipping rope on a regular basis for cardio training and building up condition? And how much would I need to do, just keep going until I'm out of breath which will hopefully take longer the more I do it, or just start of with a few minutes at a time and build up from there?

    Thanks


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