If you’re hoping to shed some pounds, look no further than your own bedroom. A simple bag of tricks to help turn you into a lean, keen, bloat-busting machine, exercising in your bedroom or a hotel room also helps you keep away from your excuses of lack of time or money to be at the gym. You can develop the ultimate bloat-busting bed routine in the smallest of the spaces without an investment in equipment etc. Here are five bedroom bloat-busting moves that are really easy and fun to complete and, if carried out at least twice each, will tot up to a valuable 30 minutes of exercise. Cut out the time and inconvenience of travelling to the gym and you can still enjoy a healthy dose of daily exercise, completed before even leaving the bedroom in the morning. You can even do it in your PJs!
1. The Wake-Up Warm Up Lean forward on your bed with two hands and complete calf stretches, bending your front leg and stretching out your back leg until you feel a pulling sensation in your calf muscle. Stretch each leg for 30 seconds. Then, carry out walking lunges around the bed five times, before high knee running on the spot for three minutes.
2. Bloat-Busting Bounces Hop on your bed and bounce up and down for three minutes. Repeat this three times, introducing tuck jumps third time round.
3. Serious Squats Squats are one of the most time-efficient ways to burn calories and are great for weight loss, building muscle across your whole body, not just your legs. Place your hands in front of you and squat low to the ground (feet shoulder width apart, back straight, sitting down into your bottom). Carry this out in two sets of 15. You can vary the workout by using a wall in the bedroom to lean against.
4. Duvet Dips Say goodbye to bingo wings with this simple move. Position your hands a shoulder-width apart on the bed, with your feet on the floor in squat position. Straighten your arms and slowly bend them to lower your body, before lifting your body back up again to start position. Repeat 20 times then take a break of no more than 20 seconds and complete two more sets.
5. Pillow Push Ups Position your feet apart on the bed with hands resting on the floor, a shoulder-width apart. With arms straight and bottom clenched, steadily lower towards the floor before raising back up again until your arms are straight. Cary this out 15 times and then repeat for two more sets. For a slightly easier version use the bed rather than the floor.
These simple bedroom-based exercises, combined with a luxurious duvet and pillow to help you get a great night’s sleep could help your shed some excess pounds!
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