To Busy To Exercise Think Again

Even if you are a busy person (and let's face it, who isn't nowadays?), there are healthy habits and exercises you can perform to improve your physique and lead a happier life. In fact, twenty minutes, three times a week is all you need to maintain a positive, healthy lifestyle.

In order to be most effective, you need a workout designed to juice up your body's metabolism, by intensifying the demands of your body during your workouts. The key is really after your workout. Your body needs to do double time to burn calories and repair muscles to enable it to fully recover and get back to what it considers to be a normal state of being. This is also known as the resting state.

So, what works best for this to work? There are many exercises to choose from, using either traditional weight training exercises or bodyweight exercise. The idea is to go through your reps quickly and intensely, with very little rest in between sets, for the full twenty minutes. Integrate interval training into your routine, working tough for thirty seconds, recovering for ninety seconds. Your routine will also vary between workout phases, and also if you are an athlete of different sports. But at its core, this is the key to success with this exercise program.

What will the results be by going through this intense workout? If you are looking to get lean, build muscle, and lose fat, you should expect no less, following the routine outlined here. So, what could you be expected to do for those grueling twenty minutes? Assuming you don't have any injuries or other physical limitations that would prevent you from doing these exercises, let's go through a typical workout routine.

Using a round of general bodyweight exercises, you will be spending the first three minutes warming up, stretching your muscles and loosening things up a bit. After this, depending upon what areas you are using this workout to work on, you will do another set of warm ups designed to prepare those particular muscles for the task ahead. This will go on for another two minutes.

For the next thirteen minutes, you are going to go through two or three supersets of exercises. The first superset will be for five minutes. Remember, it is thirty seconds of intense exercise, rest for ninety seconds, then repeat, going through five minutes. The second superset will work a different set of muscles, for another four to five minutes, then wrap it up with either a third superset on another set of muscles, or if you are working on getting rid of tummy fat, maybe conclude with about three minutes of high intensity ab work.

Then, it's a two-minute cool down to round out the routine. From there, you should hit the showers.

Do this routine three times a week. On days when you are not involved in weight training exercises, then vary your routine slightly. You'd still be doing the five-minute warm up, and the cool down for about three minutes. In between you'd be spending twelve minutes on interval training.

That's a lot to accomplish in one hour a week, but it can be done. So, what are you waiting for? Go do it.

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