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Lunch-Hour Workout – By Wanitha Ashok

In just 18 minutes fight that fat and be back at your desk before anyone even knows you’re gone. You can bet on your BlackBerry compact slimming routine fits right into your 9-to-5 job.

The moves shown here will rev burn calories and trim all your trouble zones. As these workouts engage your core you don’t really have to do your crunches for that fab ab. Long work hours shuts off the enzymes in the muscles that are responsible for fat burning therefore it is very essential to squeeze in exercises to your busy schedules.

Schedule exercise into system and set a reminder. All you need is filled half liter water bottled.

Door Hinge with Biceps Curl

This workout targets you upper back, shoulders, and biceps

  • Hold a water bottle in each hand and stand with feet hip-width apart, back flushed against a wall and bend elbows 90 degrees with your palms up and in front of body.
  • Keeping elbows tucked into waist and backs of arms on wall bring hands out to sides as far as you can and lower weights towards your thighs and curl them back to 90 degrees. Do 15 reps.

Wall Squat with T-Raise

Wall Squat with T-Raise is the best exercise to target your shoulders, butt and thighs

  • Holding a water bottled in each hand, lean against a wall with back straight, feet hip-width apart and stand 2 feet from wall with arms by sides, palms facing front
  • Bend knees and slide down the wall until thighs are parallel to floor as you slide down simultaneously raise both arms straight out to sides at shoulder height to resemble the letter T and then bring them close together in front of chest, palms facing each other. Squeeze your shoulder blades together behind you without arching your back.
  • Reverse arm move to complete 1 rep. Do 15 reps.

Yoga Tree with lateral lunge

  • One of the best exercises to address Hips, butt, quads, hamstrings and calves
  • Get into a tree pose by standing with your hands on hips and  bending the left knee out to left side to place sole of left foot on inner thigh of right leg
  • Hold for 1 count, then step left foot out into a side lunge, left knee bent and aligned over ankle, toes pointing forward and right leg straight and immediately return to tree pose.
  • Do 10 reps. Switch legs; repeat.

Crab Dip

The following exercise works on your shoulders and triceps

  • Sit on floor and place hands on floor on either side of hips, fingers forward. Position feet hip-width apart in front of you with knees bent at 90 degrees, feet flexed and heels on floor.
  • Press through palms to lift hips of the floor about 4 inches off floor, balancing body between heels and hands.
  • Bend elbows and lower hips toward floor until butt barely touch and then straighten arms to return to start. Do 15 reps.
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