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Super Fast Fat Burning Workouts for Outdoors

Author: Mike Geary Author Ranking Silver | Posted: 17-06-2006 | Comments: 0 | Views: 366 | Rating:  (56) Article Popularity - Blue (?) Got a Question? Ask.

I've got just a quick tip today to help get you started on your summer beach body with fast workouts that can be done anywhere. Now that it's nice outside, why not take some of your workouts outdoors, instead of the stuffy old gym? One of the points I'd like to make with this article is that your workouts don't have to be long drawn-out 2-hour events in order to get great metabolism boosting, muscle sculpting workouts.

Here's an idea for an outdoor workout that literally takes me 10-20 minutes, but has me drenched in sweat and pumped up by the end...

There's a little playground and a softball field at the end of my road. So on a nice day, if I decide I just want to get a real quick outdoor workout in, I run over to the field, spend a couple minutes limbering up, and then... depending on how I feel, do about 10-20 minutes of the following exercises with almost no rest in between:

-50, 75, or 100-yard wind sprints
-hill sprints (if you have a hill nearby)
-pushup variations
-walking lunge variations
-bodyweight squat variations
-box jump, squat jump, or lunge jump variations
-pullups on the playground monkey bars
-mountain climbers on ground

Sometimes I'll rotate through all of these exercises and sometimes I'll just pick a couple of them and just keep alternating. Whatever I choose, I keep the rest periods very short (10-30 seconds at most) so that the intensity stays as high as possible. This really maximizes the fat burning hormonal response and metabolism boosting response you get from these workouts, given the brief duration of the workout.

Believe me, if you do this at a high speed clip, you'll get a killer workout in as little as 10-20 minutes, and then you can get back home and get on with your life.

Even if you're not in super shape right now, you can just take it at a little lower intensity to ease yourself into it. It's worth it! Working out in the outdoors and breathing in the fresh air definitely has a stimulating effect, and some studies I've seen have indicated that you possibly burn more calories exercising outdoors compared to indoors. So give it a try... You have nothing to lose, except a little of that extra belly fat!

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For more killer ideas on quick but effective workouts visit Fast Fat Loss Workouts for Busy Men.

Michael Geary (CPT) is a recognized Fitness Expert, contributing writer for Muscle & Fitness Magazine, and author of the internationally-selling book, The Truth about 6-Pack Abs ©2004-2006. Also see Mike's blog for more fat burning and muscle sculpting programs

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