Fitness pro couple develop easiest workout ever that tones every muscle in just 20 MINUTES using no equipment
- Trainers Vivienne and Mike Addo came up with the quick but effective routine
- It uses compound bodyweight exercises that target multiple muscle groups
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Looking for a quick workout without equipment for your lunch break at home?
Trainers Vivienne and Mike Addo, also known as MrandMrsMuscle on social media, have created a 20-minute bodyweight routine that sculpts every muscle in your body.
The compound exercises are super efficient because they recruit more muscles than any other type of movement, and train them at the same time.
Plus, the routine, developed by the pair with 1.6 million Instagram followers, is challenging enough to get your heart pumping, increasing your chances of weight loss.
The workout includes deadlifts with reverse lunges for 45 seconds, followed by a 15-second rest
The workout (below) begins with a warm-up, which begins with 30 seconds of jogging on the spot while rotating the wrists.
Next, begin a series of sumo squats with side stretches on alternating sides for 30 seconds.
This is followed by deep squats where the arms move a full range from the floor to above your head.
This move targets your glutes, thighs, abs and shoulders.
Then perform some deadlifts (although without hand weights) with an overhead reach for another 30 seconds.
Stand back on one leg and at the same time lean back with your arms pointed toward the sky and slightly behind you.
Then step to bring your feet together and reach toward the floor in front of you, trying to keep your spine as straight as possible and your knees only slightly bent.
Then repeat on the other leg.
Now that you’re warmed up, the workout consists of doing a 45-second exercise and then resting for 15 seconds in between.
The first exercise is a drop squat: jump your legs into a squat while reaching down with one arm so that your fingers touch the ground. Try to keep your back straight.
Do this for 45 seconds, working your thighs, abs, hamstrings and back.
Next we will do alternating lateral lunges.
Start standing straight with your feet together, then step to the side, bending the leg you stepped on and keeping your other leg straight. Alternate between legs.
The next step is deadlifts with reverse lunges, followed by modified jumping jacks. Instead of jumping out, step each leg out to the side.
Then it’s push-ups, which can be done on your knees if necessary.
This is followed by a variation on the back extension, where you lie on your stomach and come into a sphinx position.
Next is a ‘dead bug’, where you lie on your back with your knees bent in the air and arms pointing straight up.
Then lower and straighten one leg and the other arm at the same time. Repeat this with the other arm and leg.
The next step is touching the plank, followed by oblique twists.
You can then rest for 30 seconds while you grab a drink of water and wipe away your sweat.
Then repeat the exercises one more time.
Studies have shown that compound exercises are highly effective for building strength in record time, maximizing calories burned and improving cardiovascular health.