Endurance Exercises

Good morning everyone.  I hope you all had a good night of sleep and are feeling refreshed.  Sleep is very important to your body.  It helps your body repair and renew.  Studies also show that people who don't get enough sleep also have a hard time losing weight.  Something to think about when you are tempted to stay up late and finish work or a project.

Today I'm going to focus on some endurance exercises.  These are great when you are crunched for time and want to beat boredom.  Start out doing one of each exercise for 30 seconds and try to build up to one minute.  Do once circuit at first.  When you build up your endurance, you can begin to repeat the circuit to build up to 20 minutes of exercises.

This circuit does involve jumping, so if you have disc problems or knee problems you will want to modify so you are not lifting both feet of the ground at the same time.  Remember to keep good form. 

Turn up the music if you can and have fun with it!

1) Jogging in place (or marching if you have bad knees, back or are very new to exercise).

2) Push-ups (go to my post with the different modifications for your fitness level).

3) Jumping Jacks (Stay light on your feet.  If you have a bad back try to do a half jack.  That's where you move the arms overhead, but instead of jumping you can take a side step and then bring foot back to center and take another side step on the other foot).

4) Shadowboxing (Keep light on the balls of your feet, moving the whole time.  Throw punches in the air in fromt of you.  Be careful not to overextend your elbow!)

5) Jump squats (Squat down and jump up with feet together, arms up.  If you have bad back, don't jump, just do squats and bring hands over head).

Please let me know how you like this workout.