It’s happening Team – the Lazy Girl Fitness 10 a Day Challenge starts tomorrow! In case you missed my last post, the 10 a Day Challenge is all about committing to a 10-minute workout every day for the month of December – a time when Christmas parties and good times occasionally (ok, often) get in the way of good physical and mental health.
Well – not anymore! This Challenge is your ticket to a healthy silly season. It’s pretty simple really – I’ve put together a workout for every day of December (yep, including Christmas Day). All bodyweight exercises, all simple enough to do in your own home or backyard. Occasionally you made need a little more space (such as Day 6 above), but I’ve lined that up with a Sunday so you’ll have time to duck out to a park or footpath if necessary.
A few helpful hints:
- Commit to doing the Challenge at the same time every day and no matter how tempting, DO NOT SKIP A DAY – it’s all about consistency.
- Rope in a few friends and do it together – working out is more fun (and easier!) with a friend.
- If you don’t recognise an exercise, check my pictorial exercise index here or use the search function on my blog. If you still can’t find it, make friends with YouTube. All exercises are relatively simple, so you shouldn’t have too much trouble finding them.
- Save the workout plan (image above) to your phone so you’ve got it readily available at all times.
Keep up with the Challenge on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. And show me your workouts/progress using the hashtag #LGF10aDay. I’ll be playing along too, and I can’t wait to share the good times with you!
Any questions, you know where to find me…
Bring on the burpees, followed by the wine and Christmas pudding!
xx
Suzi Magill (@BuckeyeGirlMN) says
I’m in from Minnesota, USA. ? great idea!
Yay! Keep me updated on your progress!
Brandy says
Totally going to do this, even though it’s cold here in Canada and it will have to be done indoors! LOL Some things like burpees I can’t do though, any suggestions for modifying?
Depends on what the issue is – shoot me a bit more info and I’ll see what I can do!
Brandy says
Cool! I’m not flexible enough/not quick enough for the burpee movement (I’ve tried, believe me!), and my joints are overtaxed with my weight at the moment. Basically, I’m hoping to get moving without hurting myself haha Jumping and landing isn’t going to be an option with any of the exercises, slow and steady movements or holding positions though will work ?
OK great – thanks for the info! The burpee component is generally included as a cardio component, plus it’s a great calorie burner because it uses so many muscles. So a couple of low impact alternatives for you might be marching on the spot, knees high and swinging your arms (hold a couple of weights or tins of food to increase intensity); bodyweight squats using your arms (extend arms in front of body on way down, squeeze shoulder blades in rowing motion as you push back up); or just slow the burpee movement right down and ditch the jumping. So you’d step each leg out to plank, then step each one out individually and stand up straight. Really doesn’t matter how slow you are on this movement – you’ll still be shunting the blood nicely around your body. Hope that helps!
Brandy says
Fantastic, thanks so much!! I’ve been doing squats and (wall) pushups throughout the day today whenever I get up from my desk, so I’ll tackle the rest before dinner ?