Here's a 5-Move, 5-Minute Total-Body Strength and Core Workout
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Trying to squeeze a workout in when you're busy can be incredibly stressful; fortunately, this workout from Lisa Corsello (founder of Burn Pilates) builds strength and tones your whole body in just five minutes. Have more time? Repeat the circuit two to three times for an even bigger calorie burn and a more powerful sweat sesh.
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Scissor Crunches
- Curl up into a crunch with your hands supporting your head and neck.
- Lower one leg at a time as you inhale for two counts.
- Exhale for two counts to bring your leg back up.
- Alternate legs for one full minute.
- Modification: Bend your knees and put your hands behind your head.
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Frog Crunches
- Curl up into a crunch with your hands supporting your head and neck. Inhale to slowly lower your legs halfway down while drawing your inner thighs together and engaging your core.
- Exhale to curl higher as you squeeze your heels together and bend your knees in toward your shoulders. Inhale to send your legs back out. Continue for one minute.
- Modification: Keep your knees bent and crunch up and down.
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Sumo Squat Shoulder Combo
- Begin with your heels shoulder-width apart, toes turned out. Extend arms out to your sides at shoulder height and flip your palms up as you lower into a deep squat.
- Exhale as you stand up and come on to the balls of your feet while drawing the weights toward one another above your head. Continue for one minute.
- Modification: Slightly bend arms the entire time and stay on your heels.
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Lunge Hops
- Begin win a deep lunge with your left foot forward. Inhale to lower one inch.
- Exhale as you push off your left heel to jump while you bring your right knee up.
- Modification: Keep it low impact by lowering and pulsing in the lunge instead of jumping.
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Skull Crusher Ab Combo
- Begin on your back with legs and arms straight up.
- As you inhale, lower your legs halfway down while you bend your arms at the elbows. Exhale to bring your arms and legs back up.
- Modification: Bend knees into tabletop position.