I love doing this with my clients. It’s a great workout to do at home without any equipment and it flies by! Kinda fun to start the workout with a goal!

I call these 1-10′s!

Here are four exercises. Perform them all one time. Then do them all twice. These first two rounds will feel like a warm up.  Your getting your body ready for the escalating numbers ahead. Then do them all 3 times, then 4 and 5 and so on until you are performing each exercise 10 times. Grab water as you need to! Try this on for size! Let me know how you like it!

Runners Start ( 1 on each side is equal to one)

Pretend you’re about to take off in the 100 meter dash. Come into your starting position, touch your hands to the ground if you can- if not just bring them below your knee. Then bring your back foot to meet your front foot and stand up tall reaching your hands to the sky. Switch legs!

Saxon Side Bend ( 1 on each side is equal to one)

If you don’t have a weight at home, use a jug of juice! Standing in neutral (feet hip distance apart, knees over your second and third toe, small bend in those knees) bring your arms up over your head holding either a weight (5 or 8 pounds/ or your jug of juice). Your arms should be almost straight. From here let the weight fall to the right side of your body. Let the heaviness of the weight take over. Once you reach your max (you’ll know it ) use your core to bring yourself back up and the weight back over your head.  Do one on the right side and then on the left. That’s one set!

Shooting Hoops

Squat down and jump up raising your hands over your head as if you were tossing a basket ball into a net and then come back into your squat position. Be sure to keep your knees in line with your second and third toe and your weight behind you (and in your heels).  Hold your squat for 2 counts and repeat. Each time you come back into your squat, have a look down at you feet. Make sure those toes are pointed forward and check in to make sure your weight is behind you (as if you were going to sit down in a chair)

Push Ups

Lie facing the floor and place your hands wider than shoulder distance apart. Keep your core activated to protect your lower back throughout this exercise.

• A) Lift yourself up onto your toes and your hands. Make sure to form a straight line from your heels to your head. You do not want your lower back to sag or your buttocks to rise.
• B) Lift yourself up onto your knees and your hands. Make sure to form a straight line from your buttocks to your head. You do not want your lower back to sag or your buttocks to rise.

I both instances, make sure the weight of your body is being pushed through your chest. Push up so that you have full extension in your arms, and then bring yourself as close to the ground as you can without touching.