Get Fit with Marta Montenegro: The Anywhere, Anytime Body Blaster
Until everyday life returns, you can still stay healthy and active inside your home even with no power or gym equipment.
Superstorm Sandy has left the scene, but its affects will linger for some time. It is still dangerous to venture outside—piles of debris, flooded roads, torn trees, and snapped power lines—so your regular runs or gym sessions have no doubt been put on hold.
Until everyday life returns, you can still stay healthy and active inside your home even with no power or gym equipment. All you need is your body weight and a little space.
Here is an eight-step workout that focuses on high-intensity interval training that hits all the major muscle groups. You can dial it up or down depending on your fitness level. You even can break it up into mini-routines of two to three workouts.
The Anywhere, Anytime Body Blaster
The Exercises
1. Burpee with Push-Up
2. Squat jumps
3. Walk Forward and Backward with Push-Up
4. Skater Jumps
5. Squat Jumps In and Out
6. Mountain Climbers
7. Plank, Alternating Arms
8. Plank, Push Up, Twist
Beginners
-Perform one exercise after another with minimal rest in between or as you need it according to your fitness level.
-Do 10 reps of each exercise.
-Repeat two times.
-Rest 90 seconds at the end of each circuit.
-Warm up around 5 minutes by walking or marching in place.
-Stretch at the end.
-Perform this routine three times over the week.
Intermediate/Advanced
-Perform one exercise after another with minimal rest in between.
-Do 15 reps of each exercise.
-More advanced: Challenge yourself by doing as much reps as you can in 30 seconds.
-Repeat three to four times.
-Rest 60 seconds at the end of each circuit.
-Warm up around 5 minutes by walking, marching in place, or doing knee raises.
-If you have some dumbbells, add them to the routine to increase the intensity. No dumbbells? Use gallon containers or bottles of water.
-Stretch at the end.
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