5 minute easy workouts

These simple exercise routines burn fat, build strength and banish stress

These simple exercise routines burn fat, build strength and banish stress.

You may be heading off on holidays this summer but that doesn’t mean your exercise routine needs to take a vacation, too. To make it easy (and transportable, if you’re going away), we’ve created a super-simple plan to help you get, and stay, fit in five minutes a day. For an investment of 300 seconds, you can boost your energy, fire up your metabolism and tame holiday tension. These super-short workouts offer another benefit for the time-crunched: stick-to-itiveness.

“If you give up exercising for a month, it will be a lot harder to start again later,” says personal trainer Nick Clayton. But five minutes a day can keep you mentally committed to fitness.

Each day, choose one of the ultra-efficient workouts on the following pages. Do others if you have more time, but avoid strength workouts on consecutive days. Alternate routines to achieve what we all really need in 2018: balance. E

There’s a clear connection between our health and muscle mass, particularly as we age. The more we

build, the faster our metabolism hums, the firmer we get and the easier it is to lose

weight.