Looking for Quick but Effective Exersise Routines

Professor Snugglesworth

I have a new afternoon/night job, and I haven't gotten into the swing of devoting a free hour or half hour beforehand to focus on my exercise routines (weight lifting, stationary bike). I'm trying to fit in the time to exercise beforehand, but it might be just as effective if I could come up with some quick (say, 15 minutes) routines that will help keep me in shape, bulk me up, burn fat, etc.

Right now, the only one I've got is 100 push-ups a day. Any other suggestions?

EggyToast

Planks. Developing your core muscles will help more than developing your non-core muscles anyway. 15 minutes of planks can also be done anywhere you have space, so you don't need to be around weights or whatever (like pushups).

Cojones

Who'd have known that the fitness thread could slip onto the third page?

Perhaps you'd be best off asking there than for us to have a second thread. You really need to phrase the OP better because it really isn't clear what you're trying to develop.

Iceman.USAF

Just start rotating other things into you 100 pushups a day thing. For a while before my PT tests, I make myself do 20 pushups/20 situps whenever I have to leave the room.

You can also do flutter kicks, arm circles, body builders, etc.

Those are all great cause you don't need equipment. I'd suggest picking 2 per day, both focusing on the same area (so, say flutter kicks and situps one day and pushups and arm circles the next) and just do them everytime you do X activity. How about for every 1/2 hour of TV you watch you do a set of 30 of each? It'll take you probably 2 minutes during commercials to do that and you'll get a decent workout over the course of a movie/fav show.

Fantasma

Stairs, try climbing stairs.

Professor Snugglesworth

EggyToast wrote: »

Planks. Developing your core muscles will help more than developing your non-core muscles anyway. 15 minutes of planks can also be done anywhere you have space, so you don't need to be around weights or whatever (like pushups).

Hmm, never heard of Planks. How are they done?

Fantasma wrote: »

Stairs, try climbing stairs.

Ironic that you mention that, since my current position is on the sixth floor, and the only way up is through six flights of escalators. Since breaks are brief, or if I'm running late, I always tend to jog my way up the escalators as much as possible (as long as some lazy ass isn't blocking the way, letting the stairs instead of his legs take him). I usually end up running up and down those escalators three times a day at work, so I'd like to think it's burning something.

devoir

Get down on your hands and knees. Lay your forearms down on the ground, your upper arms vertical up to your shoulders, toes in a push-up position. Your back should be straight, tightening your buttocks up should help. Tighten your stomach up.

http://exercise.about.com/od/abs/ss/abexercises_10.htm

This could probably have gone in the fitness thread :P

themightypuck

If you have a pull up bar the Cindy workout from crossfit is awesome. 5 pullups/10 pushups/15 squats as many rounds as you can do in 20 minutes.