Just because we’re in self-isolation doesn’t mean we have to skip Workout Wednesday. Fitness coach Helle Hammonds has three quick, 30-minute workouts to help you stay active at home.
With the UK on lockdown for at least three weeks due to the coronavirus, we can only leave our homes once a day for exercise. So, those frequent jogs around the block are off the table. Now, more than ever, we need effective home workouts that get our heart rates up and leave us feeling the burn the next day.
Ready for a challenge? Join the Healthista 30-day home workout challenge featuring Helle Hammonds’ high-intensity routines. Helle is known for her motivating and effective workout techniques, and she’s here to help us stay fit.
Try these three workouts over the next few days and share your progress with us on Instagram @HealthistaTV.
Workout Routine 1:
1. Warm up with shoulder rolls, body weight squats, curtsy lunges, and backward lunges.
2. Sumo squats (advanced: lift heels), backward lunge kicks (one side), backward lunges (switch sides), and a 10-second shake out.
3. Repeat three times.
4. Narrow leg jump squats to wide leg jump squats (beginner: do without jumping), split lunges (advanced: raise heels), and narrow ski jumps.
5. Repeat three times.
6. Backward lunge to knee-raising jump (beginner: backward lunge only), body weight squats with pulses, hip thrusts (advanced: raise heels).
7. Split lunge squat switches, jump squats (beginner: squat without jumping), and burpees (beginner: half burpees).
Workout Routine 2:
1. Short warm-up followed by backward lunges, inchworms, and a quick shake out.
2. Body weight squats, push-ups (easier version: knees down), and squat with overhead press.
3. Pike push-ups (or just hold a pike position) and tricep dips.
4. Repeat three times.
5. Plank with feet apart, shoulder taps and knee taps, jump in and out with push-up, and backward lunges with overhead presses.
6. Repeat three times.
7. Plank jacks, alternating arm planks with weights if possible, elbow planks, and Spidermans (plank knees to elbows).
8. Repeat three times.
Workout Routine 3:
1. Warm up with straight leg walkouts and star jumps.
2. Backward lunge and kick.
3. Tabletop hand-to-foot reach and tap, tabletop leg kicks, crunches, V-sit hold, and 10-second shake out.
4. Repeat three times.
5. High pike plank with hip tilts, plank, and high plank side mountain climbers.
6. Repeat three times.
7. Walkout narrow jump squats, laying down straight leg raises, wide leg jump squats.
8. Repeat three times.
9. Skaters and high knees for 20 seconds each with 20 seconds rest.
10. Repeat three times.
Stay active and keep moving during self-isolation with these 30-minute workouts.
