As concerns of the novel coronavirus increase, companies are encouraging staff to work from home and gyms are temporarily closing as a cautionary measure, dramatically reducing the places people can visit to stay fit. But just as more people work from home, those looking to break a sweat and keep working out can bring their fitness routines home, as well via workout videos and routines that mimic the fitness studio experience.
Workout videos provide an excellent resource for establishing a new fitness routine, reducing stress, and release endorphins during an otherwise sedentary and anxiety-provoking time. Below, we've selected a few different appealing workout types to help replicate the gym experience and stay healthy.
Workout videos provide an excellent resource for establishing a new fitness routine, reducing stress, and release endorphins during an otherwise sedentary and anxiety-provoking time. Below, we've selected a few different appealing workout types to help replicate the gym experience and stay healthy.
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Bicycle crunch is a great way to target the rectus abdominis and the obliques in one easy exercise. Lie flat on the floor with lower back pressed to the ground (pull your navel in to also target your deep abs).
A plank is a total-body movement, it challenges your core and work on your buttock, shoulders, legs & arms. When you add movement, you have to work harder to stabilize your hips, your core & buttock.
The reverse crunch is a basic core strengthening exercise improving stability throughout the lower back, hips & spine. Lie on your back with your knees together & your legs bent upwards to 90 degrees.
A plank is a total-body movement, it challenges your core and work on your buttock, shoulders, legs & arms. When you add movement, you have to work harder to stabilize your hips, your core & buttock.
The reverse crunch is a basic core strengthening exercise improving stability throughout the lower back, hips & spine. Lie on your back with your knees together & your legs bent upwards to 90 degrees.
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Jump squat - Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Start by doing a regular squat, then engage your core and jump up explosively. When you land, lower your body back into the squat position to complete one rep. Land as quietly as possible, which requires control.
Cossack squat is a squat where you descend with most of your weight on one leg while the other leg is kept out straight and to the side. The other foot will typically have the heel on the ground but the rest of the foot up in the air.
Lunges - Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Step forward with one leg into a long stride and lower into a lunge, bending both knees and keeping your posture upright while ensuring your knees don't travel over your toes. 3. Drive through your front heel to return to standing.
Cossack squat is a squat where you descend with most of your weight on one leg while the other leg is kept out straight and to the side. The other foot will typically have the heel on the ground but the rest of the foot up in the air.
Lunges - Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Step forward with one leg into a long stride and lower into a lunge, bending both knees and keeping your posture upright while ensuring your knees don't travel over your toes. 3. Drive through your front heel to return to standing.
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A Tricep dip is an upper-body strength exercise. Narrow, shoulder-width dips primarily train the triceps, with major synergists being the anterior deltoid, the pectoralis muscles (sternal, clavicular, and minor), and the rhomboid muscles of the back (in that order).
The Elbows-in pushup is an exercise that builds both upper-body & core strength. Done properly, it is a compound exercise that uses muscles in the chest, shoulders, triceps, back, abs & the legs.
The Push-up burpee, or squat thrust, is a full body exercise used in strength training and as an aerobic exercise. The athlete performs one push-up after assuming the extended plank position.
The Elbows-in pushup is an exercise that builds both upper-body & core strength. Done properly, it is a compound exercise that uses muscles in the chest, shoulders, triceps, back, abs & the legs.
The Push-up burpee, or squat thrust, is a full body exercise used in strength training and as an aerobic exercise. The athlete performs one push-up after assuming the extended plank position.
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Now even more than usual, we have a very good reason to exercise: Working out contributes to good health, which in turn helps us maintain better immune systems. Exercising is a great way to while away time as people spend more time at home, far from the friends and family they usually see. Exercise is also well known for its mood-boosting abilities, and many of us could use a lift.
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