20-Minute Energizing Workout

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20-Minute Energizing Workout

Fighting Warrior

Targets: Shoulders, chest, hips, glutes, thighs

A. From standing, lunge to left, bending left knee 90 degrees, keeping right leg straight, left toes turned out to side (warrior 2). Extend arms out to sides at shoulder level; look left.

B. Staying low, slide into a plié squat and sweep arms down and up, ending in a block with wrists crossed at chest, left over right, palms out.

C. Sink into a right side lunge, circling right arm up, elbow slightly bent, palm pressing up, and left arm down, palm pressing down.

D. Gently flow back into centered plié squat/block position.

E. Slide into left lunge, circling left arm up, right down. Flow into right lunge; repeat series on other side. Do 10 to 20 reps, alternating sides.

*Calorie burns are based on a 140-pound woman.