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If you are that kind of a person who does the same exercise or workout routine week after week, over and over, stop it because your body will become very efficient and familiar at such exercise and you no longer get a fitness response from your effort or burn as many calories as possible.
Instead, keep changing your workout or introduce new fitness moves at least once a month to reap the best from your workouts. Here are new exercise that will bust your fat burning furnace, challenge your metabolism, burn fat faster and keep your workouts exciting.
Skater squat:
This type of squat introduces coordination, balance and agility into the whole mix of the exercise. You can start by standing upright as you shift your weight onto one of your leg. Start with the left leg. Bend your right knee at 90 degrees so that your right foot is behind you and off the floor. While keeping your left knee tracking over your standing foot, bend your left knee, hips and ankle very slowly as you lower your right knee plus your entire body weight towards the floor.
When you notice that you’ve lowered yourself as far as you can, reverse the movement and return to the starting position. Try 5 to 10 repetitions for each leg as you also repeat the set. If you do this exercise correctly, you will look just like a speed skater in the final position of a race.
Break-dance push up:
This type of exercise will not only increase your agility and flexibility but also improve your upper body strength and core strength. Start the workout in a bridge position with your belly button facing the ceiling and your body weight supported on your hands and feet. Then flip to one side keeping one leg off the ground and do a push up. Flip again back to the starting position that is the bridge position. Try about 6 to 10 repetitions for each side.
Sox squats:
This type of exercise forces your body to attain proper posture and opens up your chest muscles. If your shoulders usually get tight and tired especially when you are sitting on your desk working on the computer, this is perfect because it works nearly every muscle in your body.
To do this exercise, start in a standing position with your shoulder blades squeezed back and your arms overhead and bent at an angle of 90 degrees. Now drop down into a seated, squatting position then stand slowly as you straighten your arms as you stand.
Remember always to keep your shoulder blades squeezed back and your butt back behind you. Aim for at least 10 squat reps for effective workout. You can make it more difficult and challenging by standing facing the wall with your toes up against the wall as you do the exercise. This will force you to keep your weight behind you.
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