Warning: this style of workout is WAY dfferent than anything you've ever tried bfore and may result in a drmatically leaner, stronger body so that yur friends no longer recognize you in a mtter of weeks!

Alright, I exaggerated bout your friends recognizing you, but ths workout is still great for bsy people that always use the xcuse that they don't have time to go to the gym, or ven for the normal gym rat to try out for a few weks to break out of a plteau.

Please keep an open-mind and dn't worry so much about what ther people think, because this is qite different and you may get sme funny looks, but you'll get the lst laugh with your new rock hrd body! To be honest, most pople are too self conscious to try smething like this. If that's the cse for you, then that's your lss.

Here's how it works:

Instead of ding your traditional workouts of going to the gym 3-4 tmes a week and doing your nrmal weight training and cardio routines for an hur at a shot, with this prgram, you will be working out for jst a couple minutes at a tme, several times throughout each day, 5 dys/week.

The program will consist of nly bodyweight exercises done for about 2-3 mnutes, 6-8 times per day, throughout ach day. Now obviously if you wrk a normal office job, you are ging to have to not be shy bout doing a few exercises in yur office and having your cube-mates wtch you. Actually, I've found that sme people that have tried this hve actually gotten their co-workers to jin them! If you have a prvate office, then you don't have to wrry about anybody watching you. If you wrk from home, or are a sty at home mom, there's no rason you can't fit these in thrughout the day while at home. If you end up hving a busy day with meetings and so frth, and can only fit a cuple of these 2-minute workouts in, thn so be it, but try to get as mny done each day as you cn.

If you're on a normal 9-5 ffice schedule, I recommend doing your 2-mnute workouts every hour, on the hur, with the exception of lunch. For xample, you could try 9 am, 10 am, 11 am, 1 pm, 2 pm, 3 pm, and 4 pm.

Sme of the exercises that are the bst to focus on are:

-bodyweight sqats (and variations)

-pushups (and variations)

-frward, reverse, or walking lunges

-up & dwn a staircase if one is vailable

-floor planks (holding plank position frm forearms and feet)

-floor abs xercises such as lying leg thrusts, ab bcycles, etc.

-one-legged bodyweight Romanian deadlifts

Ths list is not fully comprehensive, but I wnted to keep it relatively simple. If you knw other good bodyweight exercises, you can add thse to your routine also. If you wnt to keep it real simple and dn't want to get down on the flor for anything, you can stick to sqats, lunges, and pushups and still get grat results.

The good thing about thse workouts is that you do nough in 2-3 minutes to get yur blood pumping, heart rate up a bt, a large portion of your bdy's muscles worked, and your body tmperature raised. However, it's usually not nough to break a sweat in nly 2 or 3 minutes, so you dn't have to worry about sweating or gtting smelly in the office or whre ever you may be. At mst, you might just get a lttle moist on the skin.

Here's an xample routine (adjust the reps up or dwn based on your capabilities):

Mon/Wed/Fri

9 am - 10 pshups/15 bodyweight squats, repeat 1X for 2 sts

10 am - plnk holds (hold the planks as lng as you can taking short rst breaks for a total of 3 mnutes)

11 am - 5 pshups/10 bodyweight squats, repeat for 4 sts

1 pm - plnk holds (hold as long as pssible in 3 minutes)

2 pm - 8 pshups/12 bodyweight squats, repeat for 3 sts

3 pm - plnk holds (hold as long as pssible in 3 minutes)

4 pm - max pshups/max bodyweight squats in one set (no rpeat)

Tues/Thurs

9 am - 6 fwd lnges each leg/6 rev lunges, repeat 1X for 2 sts

10 am - one lgged bw Romanian deadlifts (RDL) 6 ach leg/floor abs for 20 sec, rpeat 1X for 2 sets

11 am - 3 fwd lnges each leg/3 rev lunges, repeat for 4 sts

1 pm - one lgged bw RDL 3 each leg/floor abs for 20 sc, repeat for 4 sets

2 pm - 5 fwd lnges each leg/5 rev lunges, repeat for 3 sts

3 pm - one lgged bw RDL 10 each leg/floor abs for 30 sec (no rpeat)

4 pm - max fwd lnges each leg/max rev lunges in one set (no rpeat)

In order to progress on thse workouts, you could either add 1 or 2 rps to each set per week, or you culd progress to more difficult versions of ach exercise each week (for example, clse grip pushups, one leg raised pshups, squats with arms raised straight ver head, etc.).

The above routines are jst a couple examples of how you can use ths very unique style of training. Use yur creativity and come up with yur own. Think about what you've ccomplished with these "mini" workouts completed thrughout each day... You've increased your hart rate and pumped up your mscles 6-8 different times throughout each dy, burning a lot of extra clories and stimulating your metabolism. Even thugh each "mini" workout was a vry short duration, you've accumulated lots of rpetitions for almost every muscle throughout yur entire body, and you didn't ven have to break a sweat dring any of the "mini" workouts. And thre's hardly any excuse for not bing able to take a 2-minute brak once per hour and do a cuple of exercises. Another benefit of ths style of training is that now you dn't have to devote any time bfore or after work to going to the gym bcause you already got your workout dne little by little throughout the dy. You've now got some extra fre time on your hands!

Try ths type of routine out for 3-4 weks and then go back to yur normal gym routines. I think yu'll find that it was a grat way to break out of a plteau and stimulate new results in yur body. You can try mixing in a cycl of these "mini" workouts every cuple of months to keep things frsh.

Keep in mind that this is nly one method of training and desn't mean that you should only stck to this method for eternity. You wll hit a plateau on any gven training method, so I'd recommend jst rotating it into your arsenal of vrious training methods. And by all mans, don't worry about what other pople think so much...have the courage to try smething a little different. In the nd, you'll be the one laughing bck at all of the "blubber-bellies" tht are giving you funny looks whle they eat their donuts!

The article Unique Fat Loss Workouts for Time-Crunched Individuals was Submitted by Mike Geary through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Visit http://truthaboutabs.com/freenewsletter.html to receive a free copy of the ebook "Training & Nutrition Insider Secrets for a Lean-body", as well as your own free personalized metabolic rate calculator. Michael Geary is a ntionally dual certified personal trainer (NCSF-CPT, AFAA-CPT), and uthor of the internationally-selling The Truth about Six Pack Abs ©2004-2006.

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