Our bodies were made to move everyday. If we want to live life to the fullest  - pain-free - look great, and feel our best, we need to move a little bit everyday.

Daily exercise, doesn't have to take a long time. I recommend between 5-30 minutes a day. Enough to get your heart pumping and challenge your muscles to strengthen and tone.

Often I meet people who have many misconceptions about exercise like:

• It has to be at least 45 minutes or it’s not worth it.
• It has to include lots of cardio.
• It has to be super intense.
• There has to be big weights and machines.
• It's more effective in a gym...or a class.
• You should only workout with a trained professional.

The truth is none of that is necessary. The only thing needed are a few moves which can done anywhere, anytime, with little to no equipment. Exercise is best when practiced everyday.

It matters more the consistency than the size of the effort.

I believe someone who does 1 push up every day for a year will reach their fitness goals faster than someone who works out an hour twice a week for a year. Don't believe me try it.

I've tried this experiment with my husband who refused to exercise for the 20+ years of our marriage. I finally convinced him to do 1 pushup... but do it every day.

He took me up on the challenge and did 1 pushup, and even went beyond and did 1 squat, and 1 jumping jack also.

The next day he did 2 of each. The following day he did 3 each, etc. etc. He progressed in this manner until he was doing 3 sets of 20.

But then he decided it was taking too much time in the morning, so we refined his program to be more focused and less time consuming. (He had to fit in between shaving and shower.)

He has since lost 70 pounds and is more fit and tone at 52 than he has ever been!

His exercise takes him less than 10 minutes a day, and requires no weights, equipment or even shoes.

He travels every week and has to be able to exercise in the morning, in his hotel room, and there’s no room for extra shoes in his suitcase.

A good workout should: 

1. Burn Body Fat Efficiently
2. Increase Strength and Muscle Tone
3. Increase Functional Mobility

It needs to challenge all of the muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons, and fascia progressively, to avoid injury. This means start slow and build gradually.

Our bones go where our muscles tell them to. When we sit all day in the car, at work, and on the couch, it is easy to see why so many of us struggle posture related pain in the low back, neck and shoulders.

The following are the 7 moves that matter when we are training our muscles.

• plank

• push

• pull

• lunge

• squat

• hip hinge

• rotation

Fortunately, many of these movements can be done at the same time - making our body work harmoniously as a unit and reducing the amount of time we need to spend exercising. 

I’ve created some videos to help. If you’d like to join me in a workout that can take as little as 5 minutes or as long as 25 minutes, sign up below and I’ll send you a Weekly Workout Routine you can do in your living room, bedroom, kitchen, or hotel room.