Total body exercises are those that work each of your major muscle groups simultaneously. These can be great for not only reducing your workout time but to ensure that you are giving each muscle group the attention it needs to reach its highest potential and achieve a balanced look.
It does not matter what area of your body you are trying to tone; if you have excess body weight you must lose overall body fat before specifically targeting one area of your body. The great thing about total body exercises is that they can combine cardio endurance training with strength training and work to burn fat as well as build muscle.
The following workout was given to two groups of my clients. One group did the workout once a week and worked out each muscle group separately for the remainder of the week. The other group did the workout 3 times per week on nonconsecutive days. At the end of one month each participant in the second group lost ten inches or more. This little experiment is far from being scientific since we didn’t factor in other lifestyle influence that may have affected the results (i.e. eating habits). However, it showed us that total body exercises can be effective if done correctly.
Before you begin the workout make sure you drink enough water throughout the day and after your workout make sure you immediately (within 30 minutes) help your muscles recover by drinking protein by mixing it in your water bottle or making a fruit smoothie
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Folami
August 21, 2012 at 1:40 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
How many pounds do you recommend for the weights? I usually use 8 pound weights, but I’m not sure if it’s enough to get good results. Thanks, this seems like a great morning workout for me! I can’t wait to try it
Kimf
August 22, 2012 at 11:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The weights that I was using was 8pounds. It was pretty tough. You need something not too heav because you are going to be doing so many reps using the weights. I say 5-8 pounds is perfect.
JoAnn
August 21, 2012 at 3:05 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
First of all, you’re cute as a bug. And I applaud your go get it attitude and effort. Wish I’d had as much business acumen and enthusiasm at ur age! Only one critical opinion: can u film in a gym setting? I know part of the charm of a webcam is the setting of ur home, but a wooden floor under ur feet would make u seem more of a professional. Don’t know how far u want to go w this, but if u want to make it ur career, u might consider. It is nice that folks can see that they too can do ur routines in their own homes tho. Good Luck! I’m going to try ur total body workout (God help me).
Kimf
August 22, 2012 at 11:13 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Aww Thanks Jo Ann,
I will definitely add some gym workouts to this. Many people don’t have easy access to a gym. I want to show them that they don’t need one. The premise is that you don’t need much to get and remain healthy. You just need the will to do it.
I really do see you point. I should add a little variety to this thing. It couldn’t hurt me. HA!
Fred
September 2, 2012 at 9:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This seems to be something easy to do and something I can do at home. I’m going to start in the morning.
What kind of warm-up and stretches do you recommend? Should we also stretch afterwards? Overall which kind of warm-up and stretching routine gets the job done best?
Kim
September 3, 2012 at 3:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I was looking for an uncomplicated, but hard-enough, easy-enough workout. Moved to a rural locale w/no convenient access to a gym or cable tv. I “used to” workout 4x/week, but my middle-aged butt has gotten very lazy for the last couple of years and my eating is atrocious. Therefore, I have about 10 serious pounds to lose. Thanks for this easy to follow workout I can do at home w/minimal equipment and no need to watch a program to follow. I think I will actually do this. I think i’m going to have to start with 5 each and add 1 every week to get up to starting with 10 each.
Kim
September 3, 2012 at 3:26 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
p.s. I llike the simple 3-move workout–that’s much of the appeal to me. i was looking for something that i didn’t have to keep referring back to the video or a magazine to see the moves. I can remember all 3 of these now that i see you do them. now all i have to do is count. and do them! : )
Michelle
November 12, 2012 at 5:12 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This is great, I love that this is something that I can do at home and don’t need a lot of equipment for, I have a lot of weight to lose (25kg/55lb, that’s like half your average Hollywood star!) by August next year and figure this will be my starting point. I’m going to go for the challenge of doing this 3x a week for a month and will let you know how I get on.
kat
March 19, 2013 at 5:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hi. Does this workout really work to lose fat? Can somebody please share experience?
Lakesha
April 29, 2013 at 2:41 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hi Kim, first of all thank you for sharing these awesome workouts. Question on the total body workout. Is there an alternate workout I can do besides the last one? I need something that gives me same workout with less impact on my knees.