Ask The Trainer

I have gotten behind in checking my Ask The Trainer emails the past few weeks as like many of you, I've gotten wrapped up in the holiday season.

With holiday parties, shopping, and work deadlines filling your schedule this month, many of you are in need of short, burst workouts to help you stick to your fat burning schedule.

Fortunately, you can get an amazing workout in at home to stay in shape over the holidays...even if you only have 15 minutes to exercise a few days per week.

That's the great news about short, burst workouts...a little bit of effort now has been proven by scientists to be just as effective - and even better - for fat loss and fitness results.

Here are just a few at-home workout ideas to get you started:.

Top 10 At-Home Fat Burning Workouts

1. Use the first superset of your favorite Turbulence Training workout and do as many rounds as possible in 10 minutes. Why? Because the first superset always contains the most effective exercises.

Craig Ballantyne has given me permission to provide CFB readers with a FREE copy of the terrific HOTZONE workout. Just click HERE for your free downloadable copy.

2. "30 seconds on, 30 seconds off" doing kettlebell swings. No kettlebell? No problem. You can use a dumbbell or even a gallon of milk! Bet you didn't know that a gallon jug of milk weighs about 8 1/2 lbs!

3. Burpees. Just keep doing them. Absolutely killer.

4. Kettlebell Exercises Paired With TRX Exercises. Ok, this involves owning a LOT of equipment and having a lot of space, but if you have these tools you should have no problem getting in a killer workout in 15 minutes.

5. TT Bodyweight Cardio Workouts (that don't require any equipment at all). There are numerous examples of TT Bodyweight Cardio Workouts throughout CFB! A fun one is the Winter Olympic Style Workout posted back in February.

6. Intervals supersetted with ab exercises like planks or side planks (which are made harder by the high breathing rate).

7. Bodyweight Challenges - Like the Bodyweight Cardio 1000 (Challenge type workouts get you hooked on exercise and prevent you from skipping workouts). If you don't own this particular TT workout, check out a modified version is posted HERE.

8. DB-BW Fusion Workouts - Pair a dumbbell exercise and bodyweight exercise together in a superset and go back and forth as many times as possible in 10 minutes.

9. Hybrid Triset Workouts - 3 exercises performed in a tri-set, using one dumbbell exercise, one bodyweight exercise, and one kettlebell or stability ball exercise. Requires just a little equipment, but work great!

10. Adrenaline Circuits - Combining bodyweight exercises and short, burst adrenaline style interval training methods. Adrenaline intervals are covered in the 31 Interval Workouts manual which is available to TT Platinum Members. I'm sorry that Craig hasn't made this workout available yet as a single workout purchase as it's pretty awesome. In the meantime, check out the FREE TT Interval Report available for download HERE.

There's a little something for everyone here. Don't think because you cannot make it to the gym for an hour 3 or 4 times/week that you cannot keep in shape this holiday season. I promise you that you can!

If you give any of these a try, let me know how they work out for you!

Thanks as always for the questions and keep them coming by emailing me at AskTheTrainer@CatapultFitnessBlog.com

Train hard; stay strong.

Peace.

Susan