Workout For Beginners
Calling All Exercise Newbies! This Is the Perfect 10-Minute, Total-Body Workout
You made a promise to yourself to exercise more. Just because you feel like you can't carve out an hour a day to hit the gym doesn't mean you should just give up. It doesn't take much — even 10 minutes of raising your heart rate and burning your muscles is enough!
Try this 10-minute workout made up of four basic bodyweight moves. It's an AMRAP workout, which means you do as many rounds as possible within 10 minutes.
The Workout:
Directions: Set the timer for 10 minutes, and complete as many rounds of the below four-move workout as you can with correct form.
10 squats
5 AbMat sit-ups (diamond sit-ups; you can place an AbMat under your lower back for support)
10 lunges
5 knee push-ups
If you're not sure how to do these exercises, see the detailed explanations ahead.
Air Squat
Diamond Sit-Up
Alternating Forward Lunge
Knee Push-Ups
