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BY ALEXA JEAN fitness
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2. chest
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4. waist
5. hips
6. thigh
Two bodies are better than one and five are better than two! Your odds of success
go up when you have a friend or group of friends to workout with, keep you on
track and motivate each other. If you’re looking for like-minded women in check
out the #HealthyBodyGuide hashtag and connect with other #HBG girls, track
your progress together, encourage each other meet-up with members in your
area or and share in the inspiration. It’s up to us to create a strong community
to encourage and motivate each other for success.
Get your magazines, scissors and glue out and start clipping out inspirational
words, healthy, tasty foods, the beach, pin up that swimsuit that you’re dying to
fit into, whatever it is that motivates you as long as it’s not someone else’s body.
You are your own personal motivator and you’re only competing with yourself.
The Perks
This is my favorite part! I set myself a weekly goal that if I complete all five of my
workouts, I reward myself. Whether its a cute new sports bra or a pedicure or
even fro-yo. Set a short-term goal for yourself and when you nail it, you reward
yourself!
Bath Bombs
Spray Tan
Spa Day
Workout Gear
Staycation or Day Trip
Girls Night
Or, if you’re saving, put a dollar into a jar every time you complete a workout,
make a healthy food choice and $2 every time you workout with a friend.
Whether your goal is to gain weight, shed weight or create lean muscle, it’s
a must to add cardio to our routines. The best part is you won’t need any
equipment to do this.
In this guide you will choose between these LISS (Low-Intensity Sustained State)
options as your 35-45 min cardio on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
You can complete all 35-45 minutes of using one cardio option or you can break
it up by doing multiple cardio options for a shorter amount of time, as long as
your total cardio time equals 35-45 minutes.
LISS stands stands for Low-Intensity Sustained State. Basically any cardio activity
that is performed at a low intensity rate but for a prolonged period of time, in our
case, 35-45 minutes. The combination of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)
and LISS in this program will be the most effective approach for anyone trying
to lose fat and create lean muscle.
• Fast Walking
• Bike Riding
• Hiking
• Slow Jog
• Swimming
NO fast food.
NO soda.
1 MIN REST - THE AMOUNT OF TIME YOU WILL REST AFTER COMPLETING EACH
CIRCUIT
EXAMPLE:
start here
start here
Walking Lunges
10 reps each leg
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND
Donkey Kicks Burpees
20 reps each side 12 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
Curtsy lunge
10 reps each leg
start here
Plank commandos
20 reps
1 2
Bicycle 3 4
heel
crunches touches
20 reps each side 15 reps each side
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
toe touches EACH ROUND mountain
20 reps climbers
30 reps
Reminder: complete 1 3
scissor kicks
20 reps
1 2 3
start here
Tricep Dips
12 reps
1 3
burpees Supermans
12 reps
12 reps
1 3
COMPLETE 4X
2
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND
tuck jumps
pushups 12 reps
12 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
Mountain climbers
25 reps each side
1 2 3
start here
star jumps
15 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
scissor kick EACH ROUND mountain
30 reps climbers
20 reps each side
1 3
Reminder: complete 1 3
your cool down
2
stretches (page 13)
2
plank arm
reach through
12 reps each arm
start here
Burpees
12 reps
1 2
3 4
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
jump squats
12 reps
EACH ROUND
Donkey kicks
20 reps each side
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
Glute bridges
20 reps
start here
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND Glute
Burpees Bridges
12 reps
25 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
side lunges
12 reps each side
start here
Knee tuck
crunches
15 reps
burpees reverse
15 reps plank leg lift
20 reps 10 each side
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
mountain crosSOVER
EACH ROUND
climbers TOE TOUCH
40 reps 12 reps each side
1 3 Reminder: complete
2 your cool down
stretches (page 13)
plank commandos
15 reps
1 2
3 4
start here
Tricep Dips
15 reps
1 3
mountain
2
pike press
climbers 10 reps
40 reps
1 3
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
jump squats EACH ROUND
supermans
15 reps 15 reps
1 3
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
2
inchworm
pushups
10 reps
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
start here
Plank dips
12 reps each side
2
COMPLETE 4X 3
1
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND single leg
leg lifts toe touch
15 reps 15 reps each side
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
burpees
15 reps
start here
sumo squat
side crunch
10 reps each side
tuck jumps
donkey kicks 15 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND reverse
glute lunge hop
bridge Reminder: complete
15 reps each side
20 reps
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
plank
bunny hop
12 reps each side
1 2 3 4
start here
crossover
glute bridge
15 reps each leg
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
Plank leg lifts EACH ROUND basic squat with
15 reps each leg side leg lift
1 3 10 reps each side
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
2
tuck jumps
15 reps
start here
Knee tuck
crunches
15 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
leg lifts EACH ROUND mountain
15 reps climbers
40 reps
Reminder: complete 1 3
your cool down
2
stretches (page 13)
plank taps
20 reps each side
1 2 3 4
start here
good mornings
15 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND
supermans side pushups
15 reps 15 reps each side
Reminder: complete 1 3
1 3
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
2
2
burpees
15 reps
start here
Flutter kicks
20 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
single leg
mountain EACH ROUND
toe touch
climbers 15 reps each side
40 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
plank dips
15 reps each side
start here
single leg
deadlifts
12 reps each leg
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND
puhsups plank jacks
10 reps 25 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
jump lunges
12 reps
start here
SPLIT SQUATS
25 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
fire hydrants EACH ROUND inner thigh
20 reps each side leg lifts
12 reps each side
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
walking lunges
15 reps each side
start here
Plank jacks
20 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
leg lifts
20 reps
start here
pike press
12 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
jump lunges EACH ROUND decline pushups
12 reps 10 reps
1 3
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13) 2
tricep dips
15 reps
1 2 3
start here
Swimming planks
12 reps each side
star jumps
12 reps mountain
climbers
40 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND
scissor kicks Plank toe taps
20 reps 15 reps each side
1 3
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
2
inchworm
pushups
10 reps
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
start here
donkey kicks
20 reps each side
reverse
squats lunge hop
20 reps 15 reps each side
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND
burpees trunk twist
15 reps 12 reps each side
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
plank jacks
30 reps
start here
frog bend
20 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
sumo squats
15 reps
start here
knee tuck
crunches
15 reps
crosSOVER bicycle
TOE TOUCH crunches
10 reps each side 20 reps each side
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
plank jacks EACH ROUND reverse
20 reps
plank leg lifts
15 reps each side
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
mountain climbers
40 reps
start here
supermans
15 reps
1 3
star jumps
10 reps
burpees 2
15 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND seal jacks
tricep dips 30 reps
15 reps
1 3 Reminder: complete
your cool down
2
stretches (page 13)
inchworm pushups
10 reps
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
start here
Jackknifes
15 reps
plank single
commandos leg toe touch
15 reps each side 12 reps each side
1 2
3 4 COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND
star jumps plank arm
15 reps reach through
12 each arm
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
leg lifts
20 reps
start here
glute bridges
25 reps
pushups burpees
15 reps 15 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
PLIE SQUAT EACH ROUND
plank jacks
30 reps
start here
straddles
20 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
single leg EACH ROUND overhead
glute bridge squats
15 reps each side 25 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
single leg
deadlifts
15 reps each leg
start here
Russian twist
15 reps each side
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
PLANK EACH ROUND mountain
bird dogs climbers
15 reps each side 45 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
plank dips
15 reps each side
start here
good mornings
20 reps
1 3
COMPLETE 4X 2
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
pike press EACH ROUND
burpees
12 reps
15 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
inchworm
PUSHUPS
12 reps
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
start here
plank
bunny hop plank jacks
12 reps each side 35 reps
1 2
COMPLETE 4X
3 4
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN
EACH ROUND
star jumps crunches
15 reps 25 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
scissor kicks
20 reps
1 2 3
start here
seal jacks
40 reps
COMPLETE 4X
1 MIN REST
BETWEEN reverse
EACH ROUND
lunge hop
straddles 15 reps each side
20 reps
Reminder: complete
your cool down
stretches (page 13)
burpees
15 reps
1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width distance apart, feet parallel. Hold your
hands out in front of you for balance.
2. Bend your knees, lowering your hips deeply so your thighs are parallel with
the floor, keeping weight back in your heels.
3. Then rise back up, straightening the legs completely, and lifting the left leg
out to the side, squeezing the outer glute.
4. As you step the foot back into shoulder-width distance position, squat
down again. Then stand up and do a side leg lift on the right side.
BICYCLE CRUNCHES
2. Move your right elbow and left knee toward each other while straightening
your right leg.
4. Move your left elbow and right knee toward each other while straightening
your left leg.
5. Repeat.
BURPEES
1. Squat down and place your hands on the floor in front of you, just outside
of your feet.
6. Explosively jump into the air, reaching your arms straight overhead.
1. Lie on the floor with your right foot crossing over your left thigh.
2. Push your hips into the air using your buttocks muscles and keep your back
straight and in alignment with your hips. Avoid arching your back.
4. Hold for 3 seconds then relax by dropping hips down 6 inches. repeat with
other leg.
1. Lie flat on the ground with your legs spread out wide.
4. Extend your arms long over your head and stretch out your core; immediately
crunch up and touch your left foot.
CRUNCHES
1. Lie on your back with your knees bend and your feet flat on the ground.
3. Slowly raise yourself off the ground and crunch towards your knees.
4. Pause at the top for 1 second and slowly lower yourself to the ground.
CURTSY LUNGE
2. Step your left leg behind you and to the right so your thighs cross, bending
both knees as if you were curtsying.
4. Perform the same movements but this time use your right leg to go behind
your left leg.
DECLINE PUSHUPS
2. Position your hands shoulder’s width apart on the ground ,with your palms
firmly facing the floor.
4. Slowly lower your body towards the floor using your shoulders and elbows.
1 3
DONKEY KICKS
1. Place your hands underneath your shoulders and knees under your hips.
2. Keep your right knee bent at 90 degrees and flex the foot until it is level
with the hip.
3. Lower the knee without touching the floor and repeat the lift.
FIRE HYDRANTS
2. Keeping the knee in a bent position, lift up your leg moving your knee away
from the midline of the body.
3. Pause at the top of the motion, and then slowly return to the starting
position.
FLUTTER KICKS
2. Extend your legs fully out with a slight bend in your knees.
4. Make small, rapid up and down scissor-like motions with your legs.
5. The key is to focus on having your midsection do all the work and to keep
your abs constantly contracted throughout the exercise.
FROG BEND
1. Lie on a floor or a mat with your face up, while your legs are extended
straight over hips.
2. Keep your feet flexed, heels together, and toes turned out.
3. Slowly bend your knees out to the sides, and then straighten them back,
using your inner-thigh muscles to control the movement.
GLUTE BRIDGES
1. Lie on the floor with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
Push your hips into the air using your buttocks muscles and keep your back
2. straight and in alignment with your hips. Avoid arching your back.
GOOD MORNINGS
1. Stand with your feet hip-width apart, and place your hands at the back of
your head with your elbows opened wide.
2. Pull your abs to your spine, and keep your back neutral while pressing your
butt backward, hinging at that hips, until your back is almost parallel to
the floor.
HEEL TOUCHES
1. Lay down on your back with your knees bent. Place your feet flat and widen
them slightly more than than your shoulder-apart-width.
3. Crunch your abs in the forward right direction. Try to touch your ankle
while alternating on each side.
INCHWORM PUSHUPS
2. Walk both hands out until you are in the push up position.
1 2 3
4 5 6 7
1. Lying on your side, lengthen your bottom leg and cross your top leg over it.
Rest either your knee or foot on the floor.
2. As you exhale, lift your bottom leg up and breath out while lowering it.
JACK KNIFES
3. Raise both your arms and legs to meet at the top of the jack-knife position.
Your legs should be straight at about a 35-45˚ angle from the floor and your
arms should be parallel to your legs.
4. Lower your arms and legs and return to the starting position.
JUMP LUNGES
1. Start standing tall with your feet staggered, your left foot slightly in front of
your right. Making sure you’re not too stiff, slightly bend your knees.
2. With your abs engaged, push off the bottom of both feet into a jump,
switching the position of your feet in midair, landing in a normal lunge.
3. Without resting you want to repeat this movement alternating which leg
is in front.
JUMP SQUATS
2. Squat down, bending at your hips with your back straight. Arms swung
back.
3. With a quick pause at the bottom, push up with your feet into a jumping
motion.
4. Pay attention when landing landing as you can cause injury to your ankles
and other areas. When landing, squat back to the lowered position and
repeat.
1. Lie face up on the floor with your legs straight and your arms at your sides.
2. In one movement quickly lift your torso into an upright position as you pull
your knees to your chest.
LEG LIFTS
2. Keep your legs together and lift them off the gourd 6-8 inches by contracting
your abs.
3. Slowly return towards the starting position but do not allow your feet to
rest on the ground.
MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS
1. Place hands on floor in a plank position slightly wider than your shoulders.
OVERHEAD SQUATS
1. Place your feet shoulder-width apart or slightly wider. Extend your hands
straight over your head.
2. Sit back and down like you’re sitting into an imaginary chair. Keep your
head facing forward as your upper body bends forward a bit.
3. Lower down so your thighs are as parallel to the floor as possible. Press your
weight back into your heels.
4. Keep your body tight, and push through your heels to bring yourself back
to the starting position.
PIKE PRESS
1. Start with your feet on the ground, your legs straight, your butt high in the
air and your hands on the ground three or four feet in front of your toes,
with your arms locked out and in line with your back.
2. Inhale as you slowly lower your head to the ground by bending your elbows.
3. Exhale as you push yourself back up until your arms are fully extended.
2. Lift right arm and left leg at the same time without moving torso.
4. Return to starting position, then repeat, lifting opposite leg and arm.
2. Jump your feet to the right, bringing your knees toward your right elbow.
Your torso will twist to the right.
1 2
3 4
PLANK COMMANDOS
2. Place your left hand firmly on the floor directly below your left shoulder.
3. Push up onto your left hand and do the motion with your right hand.
4. Return to the starting position by lowering onto your forearm the same way
you came up.
1 2
3 4
PLANK DIPS
1. Start in a plank position on your forearms and feet shoulder width apart.
2. Rotate your hips to the right while dipping your body to the floor.
3. Return to the starting position and repeat this for the other side.
PLANK JACKS
2. Put your shoulders over your wrists, your body in one straight line, and your
feet together.
3. Like the motion of a jumping jack, jump your legs wide and then back
together.
1. Get into a plank position, with your forearms on the ground, elbows directly
under your shoulders, and legs extended straight behind you, feet hip-
width apart.
2. Keeping your hips parallel to the floor, squeeze your glutes to raise your
right foot a few inches into the air.
1 3
1. Get in side plank position, resting on your right forearm under your shoulder.
2. Lift your hips and press your arm into the floor so your body is straight and
not sinking down.
4. Keep our entire body raised and reach your left arm under you.
PLANK TAPS
1. Start in the plank position with your hands under your shoulders and your
feet hip width apart.
2. Quickly touch your left shoulder with your right hand and place it back into
the plank position.
3. Quickly touch your right shoulder with your left hand and place it back into
the plank position
1 2
3 4
1. Start in a sumo position, with your feet in a wide stance, your toes poiting
out to the sides and your thighs parallel to the floor.
PUSH-UPS
1. Place your hands and knees underneath your shoulders but slightly wider.
2. Bend your elbows while lowering your body to the floor while keeping your
abs engaged.
3. Keep your head up the entire time and slowly push yourself back up into
the starting position.
3. Swing your right leg forward to hop up on your left foot, and land softly
back in a lunge.
1. Begin sitting on your butt with your legs straight. Bring your palms a few
inches behind you.
2. Lift your butt off the ground. Try to keep your body in one straight line.
3. Alternate between lifting your right leg up and then your left in a slow
controlled movement.
RUSSIAN TWIST
1. Sit on the ground with your knees bent and in front of you.
4. Rotate from your ribcage while alternating sides making sure not to swing
your arms.
SCISSOR KICKS
1. Lie down with your back with your arms to your sides.
2. With a slight bend at the knees, lift your legs up so that your heels are
about 4-6 inches off the ground.
SEAL JACKS
2. In one movement jump just high enough to spread the feet apart and clap
the hands out in front of the chest
SIDE LUNGES
2. Take a wide step to one side and once your outside foot hits the ground,
lower your body by pushing your hip back and bending the knee.
4. Pause when you reach the bottom and then push back to the starting
position.
1. Place your right elbow on the ground. Extend both legs out so that your
body is in one straight line, balancing on the outside edge of your right
foot.
3. Keeping your your abs engaged, lift your left leg up just higher than your
top hip then slowly lower it back to your bottom leg.
4. Keep your waist up and lifted, and don’t sink into your bottom shoulder
position.
SIDE PUSHUPS
1. Lie down on your side with your bottom arm wrapped around your core.
2. Your top arm should be placed with your hand flat on the floor and your
elbow at a 90-degree angle at your chest.
3. Push through your top hand to lift your shoulders and torso off the ground,
and then lower back down.
1 3
1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and knees slightly bent.
2. Now raise one leg off the floor Without changing the bend in your knee,
bend at your hips and lower your torso until it’s almost parallel to the floor.
3. Pause, then squeeze your glutes, thrust your hips forward, and raise your
torso back to the start.
1. Lie on your back with one leg raised directly in the air.
2. Thrust upwards and raise your hips off the ground as high as you can.
2. Keeping arms straight, crunch up until fingertips touch toes of elevated foot.
3. Keeping arms straight, crunch up until fingertips touch toes of elevated foot.
SPLIT SQUATS
1. Starting with both feet together on a step, bend your knees and jump up
in the air to land on the ground in a sumo-wide squat.
2. Jump back up to the top of the step and reposition your legs to land with
feet together.
SQUATS
2. Sit back and down like you’re sitting into an imaginary chair.
3. Keep your head facing forward as your upper body bends forward a bit.
4. Lower down so your thighs are as parallel to the floor as possible. Press your
weight back into your heels.
5. Keep your body tight, and push through your heels to bring yourself back
to the starting position.
STAR JUMPS
1. Stand with knees slightly bent and feet shoulder-width apart. Your arms
should be slightly bent at your sides.
2. Do a half squat and explosively jump into the air while extending your legs
and arms fully out to form a star shape with your body into a 45 degree
angle.
3. When you and immediately perform a squat and explosively perform the
same movement again until the reps are complete.
STRADDLES
1. Lay on your back and open your legs as wide as you comfortably can straight
into the air.
4. Repeat this over and over until the reps are done.
SUMO SQUATS
3. Lower yourself as far as you are comfortable but make sure the knees are
parallel with the toes.
1. Standing with feet wide, arms bent, hands behind your head.
3. As you stand bring one knee up contracting your side and touch knee to
elbow, return to start position, squat, and repeat crunch on the other side.
SUPERMANS
1. Simultaneously raise your arms, legs, and chest off the floor and hold this
contraction.
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SWIMMING PLANKS
2. Stick one arm straight out in front of you like your swimming and return
back to the plank position.
1. Sit on the mat with your fingers facing away from you, with about 12 inches
between your butt and your heels.
2. Press through your glutes as you lift your butt off the floor, coming into a
tabletop position.
TOE TOUCHES
3. Exhale and crunch forward, touching your toes with your finger tips.
TRICEP DIPS
1. Sit on the floor with our knees bent and hands on the floor and lift your
hips off the floor.
3. Immediately extend and push up with your arms back to the starting
position.
TRUNK TWIST
1. Lying on your back, extend your arms out to your side as an anchor.
3. Starting the movement from your core, rotate your knees to the left and
hold for five seconds. Then slowly rotate to the right.
TUCK JUMPS
3. Explosively jump into the air while tucking your knees to your chest.
4. Immediately land back into a half squat and again explode into the tuck
jump movement.
WALKING LUNGES
2. Step forward with one leg, until your rear knee nearly touches the ground.
3. Your posture should remain straight, and your front knee should stay above
the front foot and not over .
4. Drive through the heel of your lead foot and extend both knees to raise
yourself back up.
5. Drive through the heel of your lead foot and extend both knees to raise
yourself back up.