Exercise Articles
Fitness for All It’s Planksgiving Time – November Fitness Challenge
November brings Thanksgiving and all that delicious food can mean extra pounds this month. Combat those extra calories by joining in on this “Planksgiving” Fitness Challenge, which takes just mere seconds each day.
Happy Planksgiving!
Day 1: 20 seconds
Day 2: 30 seconds
Day 3: 30 seconds
Day 4: 35 seconds/l
Day 5: REST DAY
Day 6: 40 seconds
Day 7: 45 seconds
Day 8: 45 seconds
Day 9: 50 seconds
Day 10: REST DAY
Day 11: 1 minute
Day 12: 1 minute
Day 13: 1 minute, 10 seconds
Day 14: 1 minute, 20 seconds
Day 15: REST DAY
Day 16: 1 minute, 20 seconds
Day 17: 1 minute, 30 seconds
Day 18: 1 minute, 30 seconds
Day 19: 1 minute, 45 seconds
Day 20: REST DAY
Day 21: 1 minute, 45 seconds
Day 22: 1 minute, 45 seconds
Day 23: 2 minutes
Day 24: 2 minutes
Day 25: REST DAY
Day 26: 2 minutes, 15 seconds
Day 27: 2 minutes, 15 seconds
Day 28: 2 minutes, 30 seconds
Day 29: 2 minutes, 45 seconds
Day 30: 3 minutes
Fitness for All Candy Crush: 31-Day Halloween Challenge
It’s time to Candy Crush!
No, not that kind of game. The kind where you sneak a piece of candy from the Trick or Treat basket, but you crush those calories by doing one (or a few) of these great exercises!
Snickers – 80 calories = 13 minutes of Pilates
Milky Way – 80 calories = 10 minutes of walking up stairs
Milk Duds – 40 calories = 5 minutes with an agility ladder
Peanut M&M’s – 90 calories = 11 minutes of running 5 MPH
Kit Kat – 70 calories = 13 minutes of gardening
Nestle Crunch – 60 calories = 12 minutes of Yoga
Sour Patch Kids – 105 calories = 10 minutes of kickboxing
Pay Day – 90 calories = 15 minutes of swimming
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup – 110 calories = 12 minutes of jumping rope
Butterfinger – 85 calories = 12 minutes on the elliptical
Snickers Peanut Butter – 130 calories = 15 minutes of burpees
Starbursts – 40 calories = 5 minutes of walking upstairs
Nerds – 50 calories = 11 minutes of sit ups
Skittles – 80 calories = 11 minutes on a stair master
Baby Ruth – 85 calories = 12 minutes of walking lunges
Twix – 80 calories = 10 minutes of moderate spinning
Atomic Fire Ball – 40 calories = 10 minutes of Zumba
Swedish Fish – 100 calories = 5 minutes of kettlebell swings
Hershey Chocolate Bar – 67 calories = 13 minutes of push-ups
Hershey Kiss – 22 calories = 5 minutes of jumping jacks
Exercise 101: Best Belly-Busting Exercises
When most people begin their weight loss journey, they want to start with that stubborn belly fat. So, crunches – and lots of them – is the workout routine for you, right? Wrong! In fact, spot reduction in exercise simply doesn’t exist. Instead, trainers suggest these core-focused exercises that will help combat fat throughout your body resulting in less belly fat.
Burpees – this exercise works your core, chest, shoulders, lats, triceps, and quads. Great all-around exercise.
Mountain climbers – like burpees, this moving plank exercise works out a ton of different muscles.
Turkish Get-up – this 200-year-old exercise involves a kettle ball and is great for burning belly fat and conditioning your whole body.
Fitness for All September Squats: 30-Day Squat Challenge
It’s the start of a new month and that means a new monthly challenge. This month we focus on building that leg and core strength with September Squats!
This 30-day challenge will have you squatting your way through the month of September.
Day 1: 50 squats
Day 2: 55 squats
Day 3: 60 squats
Day 4: REST
Day 5: 70 squats
Day 6: 75 squats
Day 7: 80 squats
Day 8: REST
Day 9: 100 squats
Day 10: 105 squats
Day 11: 110 squats
Day 12: REST
Day 13: 130 squats
Day 14: 135 squats
Day 15: 140 squats
Day 16: REST
Day 17: 150 squats
Day 18: 155 squats
Day 19: 160 squats
Day 20: REST
Day 21: 180 squats
Day 22: 185 squats
Day 23: 190 squats
Day 24: REST
Day 25: 220 squats
Day 26: 225 squats
Day 27: 230 squats
Day 28: REST
Day 29: 240 squats
Day 30: 250 squats