Good news,

AAA came and towed my Jeep with the flat tire (read about that ‘incident’ here) over to the local Tire Warehouse and hopefully my ride will have some new ’sneakers’ by end of day today…

Today I wanted to tell you about a series of ‘mini fat burning workouts’ that I did on Monday…

Here’s the story,

Every Monday morning I sit down, review my goals, and then write out a ‘To Do’ list for the day.

I find this helps keep me organized and on track towards my goals (otherwise the minutia of life pours in and before you know it the end of the day is here and nothing really important has been accomplished).

So anyway,

In the bottom right hand corner of my work ‘To Do’ list I set some daily actions that I need to hit in order to bring me one step closer to my weekly goals…

I put things like:

–> Drink 5 Nalgene bottles of water throughout the day
–> Perform 30 minutes of morning cardio
–> 1 Hour of Strength Training in my basement Home Gym
–> Take a 10 minute nap and visualize achieving my goals

Well, on Monday I decided to add in some mini-workouts throughout the day.

I often do these mini-workouts to get the blood flowing, get the joints lubricated, and to simply to expend some calories which I have found I absolutely need to do because I work from home and my job entails sitting in front of the computer all darn day (not exactly a physical job).

(If you have a sedentary job these mini-workouts can dramatically help to increase your daily caloric expenditure which is a big factor in losing fat and staying lean).

So on Monday I decided to do 250 Bodyweight squats before lunch and 250 bodyweight squats before dinner…

I did them in sets of 25 and when I finished a set I would sit back down, put a check mark on my goal sheet, and then get back to work…

As the day went on I would intermittently pop out of my chair and bust out a set of 25 bodyweight squats….

Why did I pick 500 for the day?

No idea,…. just did.

I thought it would be a good challenge and it was to get all those squats in around my normal activities…

Why don’t you try some mini-workouts today?

Look for opportunities to get up and perform a mini workout…

You don’t have to be pouring with sweat and panting like a dog on a hot summer day, just try to expend some more calories with a little easy exercise. Just bust out a few repetitions of something…

I’ll share more mini workout tips that I utilize in future posts but for now I challenge you to do a little something today.

Doesn’t have to be much,

Maybe just a few easy sets of some sit to stand chair squats at your office…

Try working this mini-workout concept into your daily life and make it part of you.

Train with purpose,

Kyle Battis CSCS, NSCA-CPT
www.FitnessAudioVault.com

PS - If you have Mini-Worout ideas that you want to share I would love to hear them… drop me a line and share them below…