Time for Exercise

Here’s a quick exercise guide geared toward women. Try to have some fun while exercising. Turn on the music and get moving!

Start by warming up. Jog in place a little, nothing hard. You just want to get yourself moving and your heart pumping a little harder.

Raise your arms over your head, with your feet slightly apart, and get ready to stretch up. With your arms extended over your head reach up as far as you can and stretch to the right, and then to the left. Next, do four side stretches. Do you best to keep your arms straight, while stretching right, front, left, reverse and up. A towel can help keep the arms straight and support the upper back area.

Swing your arms. Standing straight with your arms above, your head and your legs slightly apart swing your arms down to the left, up, and down to the right. Do this four times and do two more side stretches once you finish.

With your elbows up over your head and legs slightly apart, lift your elbows down, right, left and twist while keeping your arms high. Do eight sets before doing six more sets of side stretches, arm swings, elbow and torso twist, and back to side stretches eight times.

Repeat the arm swings four times and the stretches to complete the first set of exercises.

Next, we are going to do head rolls, starting with your hands are your waist and feet slightly apart. Roll your head down, to the right, around, and reverse twice. Relax and start knee lifts and elbow touches. You can snap your fingers while you lift your left leg, touch the opposite elbow toward the knee, and lift the right leg touching the elbow to the opposite knee. Do these sets of exercises sixteen times.

Now we can do the forward bob and elbow touches four times. In the same position raise your right knee, bob forward and lift the left knee following the same steps. Now we can forward lunge while touching the elbows to the knees. Standing straight life the right knee up then lunge to the floor holding it for a couple of seconds, then lift the left knee up and lounge forward on this knee holding it up to six counts. Perform this exercise one time.

Sets: knee lifts eight times
Forward bob four times
Forward lunge one time
Knee lifts eight times
Forward bob four times
Forward lunge twice

Now we can move onto the third set of exercises. Do a few side steps, which includes clapping the hands or snapping the fingers, while you step forward with one leg, arms at the side, feet together, step front, touch and step back.

Now move on to toe touches. To begin position keep the feet slightly apart, bounce on the heels and shake the shoulders at the same time. Doing sixteen, counts raise the arms over the hand and bring them down right to the floor, to the side, up, to the center, and down left. The rocks are an upbeat exercise that enhances the heart and reduces weight. To get started alternate the rocks by hopping on one foot and then the other, stretch while rocking and point the toes. After you finish do sixteen toe touches to finish the set.

Finally, do your hip twists. The hip twists include placing one foot out, while turning to the side, and leaning backward, while pushing the hips out simultaneously. Bring the foot backward and do the same on the other foot. Flick-kicks, you merely hop, kick, hop, kick and adhere to the routine on both foots.

This is a quick set of exercise routines that will get you started. You can lose weight, tone the body, increase the hearts function and firm the body. Obviously, there are more exercises you can and should add to this, depending on your own fitness goals.