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Weight Loss On Your Mind But Got No Time To Exercise? Here's A 15-Minute Workout To Your Rescue

Weight loss: This 15-minute workout includes high-intensity exercises that can be done any time, anywhere, without any equipment. Watch video to know how each exercise is done.

Weight Loss On Your Mind But Got No Time To Exercise? Here's A 15-Minute Workout To Your Rescue

Weight loss: This workout can be done anytime, anywhere

Highlights

  • The workout can be done within 15 minutes at home
  • You need a step that is stable enough for you to step on
  • It can be a park bench or a chair at your home

Regular exercise is a must if you want to lose weight. Taking out the time to exercise every day might be difficult for someone who has a packed schedule. High intensity interval training and tabata workouts are short-duration workouts are ones which are especially meant for them. Well, not exclusively for them but short-duration high intensity workouts can help you burn calories and complete a day's exercise in as less as 15 minutes. In this article, we are going to talk about a high-intensity workout which requires no equipment.

Shared by celebrity fitness trainer Kayla Itsines on Instagram, the workout can be done anytime of the day. You can even squeeze it in your lunch break or a work break.

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Short-duration high intensity workout you can do without equipment

According to Itsines, this workout can be done within 15 minutes. She uses a step for of the exercises, but you can use anything that stable enough for you to step on. It can be a park bench or a chair at your home.

The workout includes a total of six exercises that target your lower body and overall body strength. The exercises can help in toning of leg muscles as well.

Here are the 6 exercises included in this short-duration no-equipment workout

  • Curtsy Lunge - 30 seconds
  • Jumping Jacks - 30 seconds
  • Double-Pulse Bench Jump - 30 seconds
  • Reverse Lunge & Knee-Up - 60 seconds (30 per side)
  • Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift & Knee-Up - 60 seconds (30 per side)
  • Decline Push-Up & Shoulder Tap - 30 seconds

Complete 3 laps. You can take a break of 30 seconds between each exercise if doing them in a flow seems challenging to you.

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This high-intensity workout can help you burn calories, improve stamina and flexibility, and aid weight loss. Make sure you do them with the right technique in order to target the right muscles.

The importance of exercising regularly cannot be stressed enough. It can help you be fit and free of back pain, knee pain, leg pain etc. It is an important prerequisite for weight loss and a healthy disease-free body. If you've got very less time to exercise every day, then this short-duration workout is ideal for you!

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Regular exercise can help you be stronger and fitter
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