subject: Workouts for Time-Crunched People: Full body and ab workouts from home [print this page] Workouts for Time-Crunched People: Full body and ab workouts from home
Alright, I exaggerated about your friends recognizing you, but this workout is great for busy people that always find that excuse that they don't have time to go to the gym, or maybe even for the normal gym-aholic to try out for a few weeks to break out of a plateau.
Keep an open mind here, because some of these exercises are very unique and people may wonder what in the world you are doing, but you're the one who will end up with a ripped a six pack and hard body! To be honest, most people are too self conscious to try something like this. Don't let that hold you back because you will lose out on the rock hard body ripped six pack solution.
Here's how it works (these workouts can be done at home or even in your office):
Instead of doing your regular workouts of going to the gym 3-4 times a week and doing your normal weight training and cardio routines for 45-60 minutes at a shot... with this program, you will be working out for just a couple minutes at a time, several times throughout each day, 5 days/week.
The program will use only bodyweight exercises done forabout 2-3 minutes, 6-8 times per day, throughout each day.
If you have a private office, then you obviously don't have to worry about being embarassed. If you work from home, or are a stay at home mom, there is definitely no reason that you can't do these workouts throughout the day while at home. If you end up having a busy day with meetings and so forth, and can only fit a couple of these 2-minute workouts in, then so be it, but it is very important to try and get as many of these in as possible each to get the maximum results.
I recommend doing 2 minutes of workout every hour on the hour.
Some of the bodyweight exercises that are the best are:
bodyweight squats (and variations)
pushups (and variations)
forward, reverse, or walking lunges
up & down a staircase if one is available
floor planks (holding the plank position from forearms and feet)
floor abs exercises such as lying leg thrusts, ab bicycles, etc. (these are great ab workouts from home)
one-legged bodyweight Romanian deadlifts
So, just remember that this is only one method of training ane i definitely doesnt mean that you should just stick with one, you definitely want to switch things up. You will hit a plateau on any given training method, so I'd recommend just rotating it into your arsenal of various training methods. And by all means, don't worry so much about what other people think...be brave enough to try something different. In the end, you'll be the one laughing back at all of the "blubber-bellies" at your office that are giving you funny looks while they eat their donuts!
