Fit in 8 minutes!: The Burpee-Sit-up Challenge for the home

In the time of closed gyms and plenty of free time in your own four walls a lot of Gym-Junkies are in search of a physical balance.

The fitness Influencer, and must now abandon, Willy-nilly, also on sweaty Gym Sessions to respond.

At home to stay fit

A few days ago even released a Fitness icon Pamela Mature an intense Bodyweight Training, and now the witty and likeable sports cannon draws Maren Schiller on your Instagram Account.

And calls for their more than 100,000 follow the inside of an intense Burpee-Sit-up Challenge.

Ten rounds of a workout

How the Challenge works? Actually quite simple:

Perform first a Burpee. Directly afterwards, a Sit-up follows. That was the first of ten laps.

In the next round you do two Burpees, followed by two Sit ups. Then increased so far, until you run out of two Exercises, ten repetitions at a stretch.

That doesn’t sound like much? Try it out quietly and see for yourself – the breath you won’t stay away, I am sure that in the last round.

A clean execution

Just because you have this Challenge at home, the point is not to say that the correct execution is less important.

After all, a clean technology not only minimizes the risk of injury, your body can benefit more from the sports unit.

  • Introduce yourself for the Burpee hip width apart, the toes pointing forward
  • Go deep into the squat and support you with the hands in front of your feet shoulder-width apart on the floor
  • Spring was now in the supporting position and perform a pushup
  • Jump you’re after, with the feet forward, so that you re in a squatting position
  • Execute a straight jump to the top

In the case of the Sit ups, it is especially important that you this with as little swing through lead so your abdominal muscles really nice work.

The perfect quarantine Challenge

Executed correctly, can change this crisp Challenge quite a bit of your body and a positive effect on your muscles impact.

Not in vain the Burpees speak as a compound Exercise, from Squats, to pushups, and stretch jump, a lot of muscle groups.

Butt, legs, shoulders, back, chest, torso, and hip flexors are trained. As a HIIT Exercise is also promoted for the endurance. So it’s perfect, if you wouldn’t have otherwise on the day, a lot of movement.

Quarantine-six-pack, here we go!

Cornelia Bertram

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