Even though we’re all stuck at home, we still need to keep up with our fitness routines. Health and fitness coach Helle Hammonds has three intense 30-minute workouts you can do right at home.
With the UK in lockdown due to the coronavirus, we can only leave the house once a day for exercise, which means more people are looking for effective home workouts to get their blood pumping and leave them feeling the burn the next day.
Healthista has teamed up with Helle Hammonds to bring you a 30-day home workout challenge. These high-intensity workouts are designed to be quick but effective, helping you stay motivated and in shape.
Try these three home workouts over the next few days and share your progress with us by tagging @HealthistaTV on Instagram.
Each routine starts with a short warm-up and is broken into sections with small breaks in between:
1. Backward lunges, alternating sides
2. Inch worms
3. Shake it out
4. Body weight squats
5. 30 seconds of body weight push-ups (you can do them on your knees to make it easier)
6. Squat and overhead press (no equipment needed)
7. Pike push-ups (or hold a pike position)
8. Tricep dips
9. Shake it out for 10 seconds
Repeat these three times
1. Plank position with feet apart
2. Touch one hand to the opposite shoulder, then touch knees. Do this with both hands
3. Jump in and out, then do a push-up
4. Backward lunge with overhead presses
Repeat these three times
1. Plank jacks
2. Plank with alternating arm lifts (use weights if possible)
3. Plank to elbows
4. Spidermans (bring knee to elbow while in a plank)
Repeat these three times
Do two moves for four minutes, 20 seconds each, followed by 20 seconds rest. Repeat this sequence four times:
1. Star jumps then dips to toes (or jumping jacks)
2. Chest-to-floor burpees with drop downs
Each routine begins with a short warm-up and is divided into four sections with short rests in between:
Short warm-up:
1. Roll shoulders
2. Body weight squats
3. Curtsy lunge
4. Backward lunge
5. Body weight squats
6. Curtsy lunge
1. Sumo squat (Advanced: lift heels)
2. Backward lunge, kick one side
3. Backward lunge, switch side
4. Shake it out for 10 seconds
Repeat three times
1. Narrow legged jump squats x 2 to wide legged jump squats x 2 (Beginner: narrow to wide squats without jump)
2. Split lunge on one side (Advanced: raise heels)
3. Split lunge, switch side (Advanced: raise heels)
4. Narrow ski jump
Repeat three times
1. Backward lunge to one knee raising jump – one side (Beginner: backward lunge only)
2. Backward lunge to one knee raising jump – switch side (Beginner: backward lunge only)
3. Body weight squat with two pulses
4. Hip thrust (Advanced: raise heels)
5. Split lunge squat switch from side to side – 5 reps each side
6. Jump squat – 10 reps (Beginner: squat without jumping)
7. Burpee – 10 reps (Beginner: half burpee)
The routine starts with a short warm-up and continues with four sections and short rests in between:
1. Straight leg walkout
2. Straight leg walkout with a jump
3. Star jumps
4. Backward lunge and kick
5. Repeat once more
1. Tabletop hand to foot reach and tap
2. Tabletop leg kicks
3. Crunches
4. V-sit hold
5. Shake it out for 10 seconds
Repeat three times
1. High pike plank with hip tilts
2. Plank
3. High plank side mountain climber
Repeat three times
1. Walkout narrow – jump squat x 2
2. Laying down straight leg raises
3. Wide leg jump squats
Repeat three times
1. Skaters – 20 seconds
2. High knees – 20 seconds
3. 20 seconds rest
Repeat three times