It’s snowing outside today and I have therefore nixed my idea of a 10k run as I’m in danger of slipping over and injuring myself. That’s sensible, right? But it’s easy to now make another pot of coffee and carry on my day without doing a thing. This is where we all fall down at some point or another I think – one good, legit reason not to do something has the potential to have a domino effect and ruin all our hard work thus far. So how to stop it? I’m a big fan of HIIT (high intensity interval training) – you can do it ANYWHERE and 20 minutes is enough.
So if you can’t go out, clear a space in your living room/spare room/kitchen, wherever, and try this:
Press-ups
High knees
Tricep dips
Burpees
Crunches
Jumping alternate lunges
Do your best to complete 45 seconds of each, with a 15 second rest between. This is the goal so if you can’t do that yet, modify with going more slowly, reducing the time (30 secs with 20 sec rest for instance), making it easier (eg. press-ups off knees) until you can complete the circuit properly. Then do it again; do it three times, in fact. Then brag to social media about just how damn dedicated you are. And done!
(Find examples of all these exercises on YouTube if you’re unsure.)
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