Quick lunch break workout

Struggling to find time in the day to move more? This mini-workout can be completed during your lunch break, or you can even try splitting it up into smaller bouts of 5-10 minutes of activity throughout your day. For extra fun, complete with a work colleague.

Workout sequence

Disclaimer: If you have been inactive for a while, have heart disease, or a close relative with heart disease or if you have other major health problems, or are pregnant, please check with your doctor before following these workouts.

1. Side lunges

Recommended repetitions: 10-15 each leg
  1. Start in a standing position with your feet slightly apart
  2. Step out to the side, keeping toes pointing forward
  3. Complete a lunge to the side by hinging back with the hips and bending at the knees to lower downwards
  4. Push off from your bent leg to return to the starting position and repeat on the opposite side

2. Advanced jumping jacks

Recommended repetitions: 20-30
  1. With your feet wide, lower into squat
  2. Extend your arms out to the sides of your shoulders, palms facing up
  3. Jump out of the squat, bringing your feet together and clap your hands overhead.

3. Lateral hops

Recommended repetitions: 20-30
  1. Keeping your feet hip distance apart, jump from side to side, jumping over an imaginary obstacle
  2. Land with soft knees
  3. Try to remain on the balls of your feet.

4. Single leg deadlift

Recommended repetitions: 10-15 each leg
  1. Stand with feet together
  2. Raise the right foot slightly off the floor, and with control, hinge back with the hips to lower the arms and torso towards the floor, letting the right leg move behind the body
  3. Keep the left knee slightly bent
  4. Lower down until you feel a slight stretch in the back of your left leg
  5. Return back to the starting position by raising the torso back up, driving with the hips, and lowering the right leg
  6. Repeat on the other side

5. Side to side lunge with punches

Recommended repetitions: 10-15 each leg

1. Begin facing forward and pivot to the right
2. Step your right leg back as you bend your right knee into a lunge
3. Punch forward with your left arm then your right arm
4. Step back to the middle and turn to the left, taking your left leg back and your right arm forward in a punch followed by your left arm
5.Continue alternating sides, moving quickly
6. To make harder, lunge deeper or add a jump in the middle

6. Squat reach and jump

Recommended repetitions: 10-15
  1. Keep your feet shoulder-width apart and perform a squat by bending at the knees to lower yourself downwards
  2. Tip: Your knees should not pass over your toes
  3. From the squat position, straighten and jump upwards, reaching both arms forward

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