Burn 200 calories or more in 30-40 minutes.

If you are following my 30 Days Healthy Meal Plan series, you might be doing that to either lose weight or maintain it. While eating healthy is super important, exercising is equally important to achieve any weight loss goal. Keeping fit is also a great way to stay healthy, prevent many diseases and also look good every season of the year. Plus, exercising is also fun! Yes, even when you are sweating and your muscles are in pain, exercising is fun. And it helps you relax, de-stress yourself and improves your mood for the rest of the day. Moreover, after a great workout your confidence is boosted because you feel satisfied and proud of what you have just accomplished.

My 30 Days Healy Meal Plan series, has inspired me to vary my meals, as well as to play more with my fitness routine. Because our bodies get used to workouts pretty easily (for me it usually happens after the second or third time, especially when I repeat the workouts within the same week) it's important to constantly change them in order to keep achieving results. While workout videos are great, and I have many of them linked on my fitness posts, I also believe you should experiment with easy exercises like jumping rope, jumping jacks ad sit ups. As Jillian Michaels says, these are old but goodies!

Today I tried a new workout routine: half consisted of individual cardio exercises repeated for 5 minutes; and the other half was 20 minutes of cardio kickboxing, my favourite workout.

This is what I did to burn 200 calories or more in 40 minutes:

1. I started with 5 minutes jumping rope without an actual rope (switching between basic jump, hopping on toes, side to side and double jump)
2. I continued with some buttocks toning exercises for 2.5 minutes
3. I did jumping jacks for 5 minutes ( every 1minute I slowed down for 10 seconds)
4. I did 1 more minute buttocks toning exercises for 1 more minute
5. Next I did 5 minutes mixed sit ups (alternating between basic crunches, sit ups, side crunches, bicycle crunches and double crunches- 1 minute each)
6. I finished with 20 minutes cardio kickboxing.

I really liked this workout because I really felt it in my abs, especially the jumping rope and the sit ups. The other exercises helped me work both buttocks and legs. I used an online stopwatch to time my 5 minutes exercises. Depending on your weight and also on how fast you do these exercises you might burn more than 200 calories.

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Workout Outfit of the Day + My Routine

Lately I have been loving to wear my husband's athletics tops to exercise. Although they are for men I really love how they look on me, especially on a bright exercise bra like the one I am wearing below. He has them in so many colours, I think I have at least 6 to choose from and since he no longer wears them I am getting a good use out of them (which is great since they are all by expensive sportswear brands and I am sure they were pretty expensive to leave lying in his closet). So here is my workout outfit of the day I wore last Tuesday. For the moment is warm enough because once I start exercising I start getting warmer and I feel comfortable. I am wearing a simple pair of light black leggings and an old pair of Nike trainers which I cannot stop wearing. I have a new pair of Puma trainers in a box but they are not as comfortable as these ones. 

If you are wondering, I exercise at home. Hence my simple outfit and no makeup plus ponytail. I love exercising at home because I can do it when I want to and for how long I want to and then I quickly pop into the shower and I can start or continue with my day without the need to waist time driving or catching the bus.

This was my workout routine on Tuesday:

10 minutes cross training +

30 minute Cardio

What about you, did you workout on Tuesday?

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