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Summer Body | Fitness | Nutrition | Cirencester Personal Trainer


Achieving your desired summer body to begin with takes a serious level of dedication and a strict nutritional plan. However, maintaining your beach ready physique can be just as difficult.

Unfortunately, a gym membership can be expensive and, if you’re working a full time job, you may struggle to find the time to fit in a workout. Thankfully, if you just know how to utilise them, your everyday surroundings can do the job just as well.

A workout that uses your bodyweight exclusively to help build muscle mass is known as calisthenic – and such exercises put the emphasis on form and reps over weight. So listen up, and take note of some of the best calisthenic exercises out there – to ensure that your summer body doesn’t turn with the seasons.

- The Plank
The plank is a great exercise which, when done correctly, not only works your abdominal muscles but also trains your arms and shoulders. To start this exercise, lay with your stomach on the floor. Then, push yourself upwards so that you are resting on your forearms and tip toes. Hold this position for 40-60 seconds, making sure that you are tensing your abdominal muscles and keeping a straight back, no cheating.
- Cardio
Cardio, a key part of building and retaining muscle, is workout Marmite. Some can’t get enough of it, whilst others avoid it at all costs.
- Bodyweight Squat
A fundamental exercise that helps to tone and strengthen the lower part of your body, bodyweight squats require very little space – so there are no excuses not to include them in your workout routine!
- Push-Ups
Perhaps one of the most simple but effective exercises, the push-up will work almost all your muscle groups including your chest, triceps, shoulders and abdominals. Doing push-ups on a daily basis will strengthen, tone and build these muscle groups. And, like squats, you need little space and no additional equipment to complete them.
- Lunges
Lunges target the lower region of your body – so are best completed in conjunction with squats. Whilst mainly targeting the quadriceps, lunges also work your gluteal, hamstrings, abdominals and core muscles.
- Pull-ups
Whilst a pull-up does require a bar of some sort, a tree trunk or monkey bar in your local park will more than suffice – and many parks now have dedicated work out stations installed.
- Diet
Exercises are undoubtedly important, but your diet is just as integral to maintaining the best body you can.
Enjoy
Cirencester Personal Trainer

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