Happy Tuesday!

I’ll make this short and sweet, like my 15 minute workout for fat loss that I did today.

In fact, I just finished it about 5 minutes ago. : )

I like to perform short, intense workouts most of the time. It keeps me focused on the task at hand and gives me more free time for other things.

My normal interval training routine was getting a little stale recently. Not difficult enough, and frankly, I was getting bored with it.

So what did I do? I changed it up.

So I went to my gym in my apartment and…..hold on, hold on. You went inside a gym, Scott? I thought you did nothing but outdoor workouts.

Well normally I do, but there are just sometimes where I like to control the speed of my sprints and so I use a treadmill.

And today, I actually needed hills. And Dallas ain’t got no hills. Perhaps a reason we’re one of the fattest cities in America?

Anyway, back to my workout. The main thing that I changed in my interval training was to add hills to my sprints. Or in my case, an incline to the treadmill.

If you read The Truth About Six-Pack Abs, they talk a lot about interval training, wind sprints and hill sprints as one of the best things you can do to get a flat stomach and six-pack abs.

Since I added an incline to the treadmill, I backed off the speed from 11 mph to 9 mph.

So my workout was the following:

Warm up with a brisk walk or slow jog on the treadmill
Run at 9 mph and 5% incline for one minute
Walk at 3.5 mph and 2% incline for 90 seconds
Repeat for 5 rounds
Brief cool down

And there’s your 15 minute workout for fat loss. I worked up a good sweat and now I’m headed for a shower.

So, are you ready to try this? I would love to hear your experience. Or maybe you have your own 15 minute workout. Please add your comments and share with everyone. And while you’re at it, maybe you can suggest a place for me to move that has hills. : )

Have an amazing day.

Scott

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Howdy!

Almost every Saturday morning at 9:00 here in Dallas, I run a free workout for the community. It’s an outdoor workout, and we always have a fun time and get in a great workout. Below is a picture of the group that came out for the workout this past Saturday.

You can easily find a free workout in your community. There is an online resource called Meetup, where you can search for fitness groups and workouts in your local area.

Whether you are looking for a walking group, or a bootcamp style workout, chances are that you can find one in your area on Meetup.

Not all of the Meetup groups are free, but a lot of them are. My Saturday morning workout group is called the Playground Fitness Club and I have chosen to make these workouts free as a way for me to give back to the community.

If you are looking for a walking group in your area and can’t find one, you can start one yourself. Once you create your group, other people on Meetup who search for fitness groups in your area will see yours and become a member of your group.

Soon enough you’ll have a whole big group of people in your community coming together for a fun workout.

Starting or joining a workout group in your community is one of the best things you can do to help get rid of obesity in this world once and for all.

Check out my good friend Scott Tousignant’s Obliterate Obesity Report that gives you other ways that you can help put an end to this terrible epidemic. You can download it on his new blog called Obliterate Obesity. Enter in your name and email address at the upper right hand corner of his blog, and the report will be emailed to you.

Do you have any other ideas on how we can get rid of obesity? What else can you or I do in our communities? Please share your comments below.

Have a great day!

Scott

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Here is a quick 10-minute workout that you can do anywhere. No equipment necessary and no gym required. It doesn’t take a lot of time and is very effective for fat loss which will help you with getting a flat stomach and six-pack abs. This workout will work your entire body - upper body, lower body, your abs, and will really get your heart rate up. You should do a proper warm up first.

The workout consists of 4 exercises - squat thrust, squats, push ups and jumping lunges. You’ll do 60 seconds of each exercise, then 45 seconds of each, then 30 seconds of each, and finally 15 seconds of each exercise for a total of 10 minutes.

So the routine looks like this:

60 seconds of squat thrusts
60 seconds of squats
60 seconds of push ups
60 seconds of jumping lunges (or lunges)
45 seconds of squat thrusts
45 seconds of squats
45 seconds of push ups
45 seconds of jumping lunges (or lunges)
30 seconds of squat thrusts
30 seconds of squats
30 seconds of push ups
30 seconds of jumping lunges (or lunges)
15 seconds of squat thrusts
15 seconds of squats
15 seconds of push ups
15 seconds of jumping lunges (or lunges)

Check it out in the video below. Good luck with it and I would love to hear your comments after your try it.