If you let your exercise program slide over the winter months, don't despair. There is still plenty of time to get yourself feeling and looking good before you need to don the first pair of shorts or swim suit. Follow our 12 suggestions below to a fitter, leaner sleeker you and enjoy all summer has to offer.
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12. MOVE IT: Top tips from a personal trainer include: get out and move; do a combination of cardio and some weight training. Every morning you must spend between 25 and 40 minutes walking doing minute intervals of fast and slower walking. Squats and push-ups are a must and can be done anywhere. Work towards three sets of 20 repetitions.
11. TOP BOTTOM: Work your butt off for a bottom you will want to show off this summer. Try dumbbell squats, bridge pose and hip lift and lunges. Put them all together in a routine and up the repetitions in the weeks leading up to summer.
10. ADD ARMS: Add some ripper arms moves to your summer workout for the best arms ever. Try triceps dips and bicep curls, to target both the front and back of arms.
9. EASY CARDIO: Run for fitness and form. Get started on a running plan by setting a schedule. Build up gradually by running more and walking less. Then start increasing the amount of time you spend running each session.
8. HOT YOGA: Try some hot yoga to get you in shape for summer. Yoga helps your flexibility, strength, breathing, gives you a cardio workout, detoxifies, aids focus and heals injuries and other medical conditions.
7. SUMMER GLOW: Exfoliate to reveal glowing summer skin. Get your body’s biggest organ in shape by exfoliating, moisturising, removing hair and adding a sun-kissed golden glow with a good fake tan.
6. CORE WORK: Abdominal workout for a toned flat summer stomach. Side plank will target all the muscles of the core. Try some walk outs from push up position. Walk hands out as far as possible and then back in.
5. BACK TO BASICS: Get a sexy back with just a couple of well-targeted exercises. Try a back extension on a fit ball or a push up position row with dumbbells. Do three sets of each exercise, 12 reps per set and work up to doing the workout three times per week.
4. TRY SOMETHING NEW: Hula hoop your way to a summer six pack. Just 10 minutes a day will help you sheer off the centimetres and have you dropping dress sizes in weeks.
3. GET KILLER PINS: Get into some simple exercises for shapely summer legs. Do three sets of 15 calf raises by standing on the edge of a step. To target the inner thighs try the wide-stance squat.
2. STRONG: Use strength training to help meet your fitness goals this summer. The easiest and most effective weight training are; bodyweight training such as push-ups, squats, lunges and triceps dips; dumbbell training like dumbbell bench presses and using barbells.
1. TAME SILLY SEASON: Don't spoil all your hard work during silly season. Make sure you limit your booze intake. At a party or celebration make your first drink, and at least every second one thereafter, a sparkling mineral water or something else non-alcoholic. Monitor your party food intake. Choose carefully and try only the food that looks really good to you. Keep up your exercise program by keeping a wake-up workout routine throughout the holidays.