Short & Supercharged Exercise with Clem

During lockdown, whilst you may have some extra time on your hands, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you have any more motivation!

So we want to maximise our exercise regime to fit a short time frame. This means we don’t need to set aside hours of our day

and we don’t need to rev ourselves up for an intense, seemingly never ending workout.

Here it is, a super charged but to the point exercise video, suitable for all fitness levels and sure to get your blood pumping!

We’re going to go through four different exercises today. I’ll show you all four of them first,

and then we’ll put some music on and run through the four minutes together.

Squat

Here are some different options. So you want to keep your feet hip distance apart so that your knees are in line with your hips and feet.

When you come down into the squat, you really want to drive with the bottom. So you’re putting your bottom out,

sort of like you’re sitting down to sit on a chair and coming back up. When you come down avoid the knees going past the toes. They can go just past

the ankles, not past the toes. So just keep that in mind. When you come back up, you really

want to squeeze the butt cheeks to straighten the legs and then start again.

If that’s not working for you or you’ve got a little bit of pain in the knees, you can use a chair behind you to guide the movement.

The other option is to do it against a wall. Because it’s nice and straight will give you a little bit of help and support as you come down and up.

Again, you want to avoid your knees from going past your toes. That just loads the knee a little bit too much.

If you can’t do either of those, you can just march on the spot. That’s going to get your heart rate up just as much as the other ones.

Lunge to the side, guide the movement with your bottom. Almost like you’re reaching down to the leg that bends.

Dig your heel into the ground. You can keep your hands on your waist or clasp them in front of you.

going to go straight up reaching the back of your hands together and here you really want to keep your arms behind your head.

The fourth exercise is just a shoulder press. Palms facing the ceiling and pushing straight upwards.