HIIT routine to get beach body ready

With summer just around the corner, it’s time to get cracking and get yourself beach body ready. This means following a balanced diet, keeping well hydrated and exercising.

The main aims of getting beach body ready are to lose excess weight and get rid of body fat. Exercising is essential if you want to achieve this.

There are countless exercises that you can do to achieve these goals, but the most effective way is to combine strength training with cardiovascular exercises; although sometimes a lack of time, tiredness, laziness, the heat, etc. can make it difficult to follow a routine.

For this reason, at Probelte Pharma, we recommend anexercise routine that speeds up your metabolism, as it involves movements that use all of your body’s muscles. This means that your body remains active after you complete the routine, so it continues to burn fat.

It is an HIITroutine, a type of functional training that is great for losing weight and can be done at home, in the gym or even on the street.

It consists of a high-intensity routine that combines several intense exercises with shorttime intervals. During these intervals, glucose is metabolised during the intense phase and fat reserves are metabolised during the rest phase.  This metabolisation of glucose and fat will lower your body fat index, thereby improving your performance.

HIIT routine

The first thing you need to do is to warm up for 5-10 minutes to prepare your body for the intense workout and to avoid any injuries.

This type of routine should be completed 3 or 4 times a week and the intensity should be increased as your recovery times improve.

There are several ways to do this training, but the most common approach is to set short time intervals (20-30 seconds) for high-intensity exercises and recovery times (15-20 seconds).

So, for example, the HIITroutine could be as follows:

1. Jumping jacks. This involves doing star jumps for 30 seconds, with as many repetitions as possible. After doing this, rest for 15 seconds and move on to the next exercise.
2. Mountain climbers. To do these, get on your hands and knees, and rest both hands on the floor, a shoulder-width apart, with your elbows straight. Stretch one leg out and bend the other, with the tips of your toes on the floor. Bring your knees toward your chest one at a time. You should do as many repetitions as possible for 30 seconds. Rest for 20 seconds.
3. Alternating lunges. Stand with your hands on your hips. Bring your right leg forward and lower until it is at a 90° angle, then return it to the starting position and do the same with the other leg. To increase the intensity you can add a jump when changing legs. Do this for 30 seconds at maximum intensity and rest for 20 seconds.
4. Push-ups. As many repetitions as possible for 30 seconds with 30 seconds of rest.
5. Front plank. Position yourself parallel to the floor, resting on your hands at shoulder height and with your elbows straight. Hold this position by squeezing the abdomen for 30 seconds, and rest for 20 seconds. If you want to make it more intense, you can bend your arms and support yourself with your forearms instead of the palms of your hands.

To complete the workout you have to continue doing these exercises until you have finished at least 2 sets. You only need 10 minutes! As you continue to exercise, your endurance will improve and you will lose weight, so you can increase the intensity andinclude other exercises, such as squats, running on the spot with knee lifts, side planks, etc. or you can increase the number of sets of exercises, always sticking to 20-30-second time intervals.

Once you are fit, taking food supplements can help you to boost your sporting performance by providing the nutrients you need to push your boundaries. For this purpose, Probelte Pharma has developed Keriba Sport with Pomanox, magnesium and vitamin B6. Push your limits!