Sarah: Welcome to the Calorie Minute brought to you by www.diet.com. I am Sarah and I am with Stephen Cabral, Body Transformation Expert. Now today I have asked Stephen to show me a few energy boosting exercises. Whenever you need energy in the morning, any of that. Today, what am I going to do?
Stephen: I am going to give you a quick super set and what we are going to do is we are going to get the mind and the body really moving. So we get the blood flowing through the body, get simulated through the two different exercises we are doing, both upper and lower body. So really the whole body gets moving.
One big thing with this right here is we don't want to take it to failure because we don't want to fatigue our bodies but we want to do enough to wake them back up. So we are going to get started first with T-Twist push-ups. We will show you a couple of different variations. Let's go on the elbows first and at home you can use regular carpets, or if you are in the gym, use a mat for underneath your elbows.
So this time we will just use the floor. Keep your abs nice and tight and what I am going to have you do is just rotate your body up on one side, keeping your head tight. So it will work your obliques at the same time and then back down, good! Now switch sides, rotating, looking up right towards me on that side, arms at a right angle, good! Then right back down. So these are not just exercises to wake up, they are actually great exercises for you to really work your body.
Right here, Sarah is working her obliques, her whole upper body that supports her, nice work, and then right back down. Your feet should be about a foot apart, so they can just literally domino, they fall right down beside each other, good! Now let's show the advanced version.
So up on your hands, good! I want you to kick your legs back out again, so we are going to do T-Twist push-ups. So now you don't want to do the push-ups, you just rotate to this side on your hands. Yeah, like that, now you switch. So right back to the other side, perfect. Now let's show it with the push-up. So this is level three, this is the hardest version. Push-up, twist, open, reaching the sky, nice work. Let the feet domino, great job. Keep the hips aside, you don't want to your hips fall towards the floor. If you are not doing that, you are doing a great job.
Once you start getting fatigue, you are going to stop. Don't take it to failure, just get the body moving. What that does is it open up your chest, you get air into your lungs, it feels great, it's really going to get some blood flowing through your brains, wow! Now we are going to go into Lateral Lunges. So I am going to have you stand here with your hands up at high and I am going to have you lunge to your right side, keeping the weight on your right heel.
So take a nice big lunge over, good. Now sit into it, stretching the left leg straight, keeping this foot flat on the floor and now step back, good. Another one, right to this side, you want to do both, let's say, 10-12 of these and push right back and keeping the chest up high, good, sit back on the right hip. Now take a little step over, lunge towards me. So both sides equal, whatever you did on your right side, you want to lunge towards your left and repeat that same number.
This is the next exercise, it's called Lateral Lunges, great for warm-up, great for energy boosting exercise here. What it does is it stretches the inner thighs, outer thighs, and also works the legs as well. That's her last one, so you have a nice super set. T-Twist push-ups or any variation of those three and then you have your Lateral Lunges. That should get you going, get the mind racing a little bit, heart and lungs working hard, and that's going to get you going.
Sarah: I am already here on you tonight. Hope you guys enjoyed this video and you are able to stay up all night, not really but have a Happy New Year. See you guys next time.
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