Turkey Day Training!

Transform your Turkey Day with this 15-minute workout! Here’s what I love about today’s routine is it’s just 5 powerful moves that work everything from your nose to your toes. It’s a bonus if you knock it out before your morning shower. Trust me, that morning victory sets the tone for your entire day!
 
Here’s the magic formula: 5 moves, 1 minute each, 3 rounds… endless energy for your holiday celebrations. Simple math: that’s 25 minutes to transform your day. Can’t do it all at once? No problem! Start your holiday strong with this fun, festive workout that fits into any schedule by spreading these 1-minute power moves throughout your day.
 
Here are the moves… 

1. THE ROTATING TURKEY

  1. Start in plank position, but this time, rest on your elbows instead of your hands. Be sure to keep the shoulders depressed back and down and the neck nice and long throughout the movement.
  2. Keeping your abs engaged, slowly swivel the hips underneath you to the right. Feel your obliques driving this motion as you swivel to the other side with a slow, controlled motion.

2. LEG CASSEROLE

  1. Holding a dumbbell in each hand, step your left foot directly behind you, taking a wide stance, and bend your legs, lowering your torso down into a lunge. Be sure and maintain that core stability to prevent injury.
  2. While in lunge position, keep your shoulders over your hips, back knee slightly bent, front knee in alignment with your front toes, shoulders back and down.
  3. Feel your weight in your right (front) heel as you push yourself to standing.
  4. As you return to standing, do a tricep kickback: Reach your arms back behind you and extend, feeling a squeeze in the tricep.

3. THE GOBBLER

  1. Stand with dumbbells in each hand in hammerhead position, with palms facing each other.
  2. Bend the right leg and lower your hips down as you tap the left leg to the side, feeling a slight stretch in the left inner thigh.
  3. Pressing off the right foot, keeping your core engaged, push yourself back up to standing. If you need a little assistance, push off the left foot. 
  4. As you return to standing, curl the weights up toward your shoulders, squeezing the muscles on the front of the arms for a bicep curl.

4. DEVILED LEGGS

  1. Rest dumbbells on your hips as you place your left foot behind you. Instead of stepping directly back, the left foot should move diagonally back, with the back knee bending down directly outside the right foot
  2. Fire up the core muscles as you squat down with the right leg, feeling the emphasis on your right glute (weight placed firmly in the right heel) as the left foot lightly supports you.
  3. As you return to standing, bring the left foot forward, landing with a wide stance.
  4. Punch the right hand across your body, toward the left wall, allowing your right foot to rotate as your torso twists to the left, engaging your right glute.

5. CARDIO PIE

1. Squat down to rest both hands on the floor.
2. Step or jump into a plank position. If advanced, do a pushup.
3. Return to standing, and come up to your toes.