Fitness

20 -Minute Full Body At-Home Workout

Try this quick and easy 20 Minute Full Body At-Home Workout! Full body workouts are a great way to get your muscles fired up, your metabolism going and burn off excess calories. This workout will target your entire body with only 4 heart pumping exercises!

All 4 of the exercises in this 20 Minute Full Body At-Home Workout are compound movements, which will increase your heart rate while sculpting multiple muscle groups at the same time!

5 reasons why compound exercises are the perfect way to build a full body workout.

  1. Compound exercises burn more calories than isolating a single muscle group.
  2. Compound exercises improve inter-muscular coordination.
  3. Compound exercises elevate the heart rate and provide a cardiovascular training benefit.
  4. Compound exercises are a form of dynamic flexibility.
  5. Compound exercises improve movement efficiency.

For more information on the benefits of compound exercises check out this article from the American Counsel on Exercise .

Learn The Moves

  • Reverse Lunge + Single Leg Hammer Curl (30 seconds each side)
  • Glute Bridge Hold + Skull Crushers
  • Deadlift + Row
  • Plank Walk Out + Alternating Frogger Mountain Climbers

How To Perform The Workout

Complete each exercise one after the other. Perform each exercise for 1 minute with minimal rest in between moves. Rest for a full minutes after the 4th exercise and cycle back through the moves 2 more times for a total of 3 sets.

Want More Full Body Workout Ideas – the 3 workouts below, which also featuring compound exercises, have been trending on the blog.

  1. A Quick 5-Move Total Body Workout
  2. Full Body Circuit Workout (15, 30, or 45 Minutes Variation)
  3. 4 Move Total Body Strength Workout

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