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Fitting in fitness when you’re strapped for time
The to-do list facing most women these days is long. Do well at work, see your friends, phone your relatives, tackle the endless life-admin and keep your children off drugs and on broccoli. And then there’s making time for exercise. We mustn’t let this be the first thing to drop off the page, so here are some tips for squeezing it in.
First, try to have a plan, a schedule, otherwise you’ll totter from one half-baked workout to the next. In other words – if you decide to do it, however short, then do it. Rather than one 30-minute workout, chop it up into three mini 10-minute workouts.
The trio could go like this:
1 10 squats, 10 press-ups, 10 lunges each leg, then 9 of each, 8 of each and so on. Aim to get as far as you can towards 1 in 10 mins. Counting down is very motivating!
2 The second chunk could be like a Tabata, which is a type of HIIT workout – 20 seconds of work with a 10-second rest.
Repeat 4 rounds of each exercise. For example, 4 rounds each of star-jumps, running up and down stairs, high knees and sit-ups. That’s 8 minutes done!
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Lastly, 10 minutes spent on the core and glutes is so valuable – 10 crunches, 10 deadbugs (slow), then 10 glute bridges, then 8, 6, 4, 2 of each.
Opting for short doses like this allows you to work harder and more intensely in that shorter time, without feeling your day is being swallowed up.
Let’s not forget the humble step count though, too. There are so many ways you can build extra steps into your day. Park at the other end of the supermarket car park (that’s if you’re not walking there and lugging the shopping back in a rucksack!). Get o
