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Heart Pumping Workouts You Can Do Anywhere

By Barbara Baez @BarbaraMBaez · On April 1, 2015

According to the Centers for Disease Control Prevention over 600,000 people die from heart disease every year in the United States. One of the ways to keep your ticker healthy and at optimal health is through diet and exercise. Time and boredom are the top reasons people forgo their regular workout routines. Below you will find 5 HIIT workouts that really gets your heart pumping.

Pushing your body physically to the anaerobic zone benefits the heart by making it stronger. These workouts also help to boost your metabolism, burn fat and the best part is no equipment needed!  Try the routine below to get started.

Clapping Jacks: Standing with your feet together, similar to how you would perform a traditional jumping jack. Jack your feet apart while extending your arms outward to the side. As you jack your feet back in clap your hands in front of you keeping your arms straight. Perform this move for 1 min. Gate Swings: Standing with your feet together jump out wider than your hips landing in second position stance (toes pointed outward) lower your body into a deep squat. Place your hands or elbows right above each knee. Jump back in to complete one rep. Do this for 1 min.

Flutter Kick Squats: Start in a shallow lunge position with your right foot forward. In a quick burst jump and switch legs landing with the left leg forward. Repeat this action on the other side. For the third jump land into a deep wide legged squat position. This makes one rep.  Repeat 8-12 times to get your heart rate up!

Burpee with Lateral Leg Raise: Stand in squat position with your feet hip width apart and place your hands on the floor in front of you.  Thrust your legs out behind you so that you are in a push-up position. Pop back up, instead of jumping as you would with a traditional burpee, perform a lateral leg raise on the right and left. That will complete one rep. Perform this routine as many times as you can in 1 minute.


NMFITHeadshot2014-1Nadia Murdock is nationally recognized fitness coach, published author and regular on-air fitness expert. She is living proof that her “train your mind, change your body” method works.  After changing her own life via her own weight loss journey to a healthier lifestyle she became dedicated to sharing that power with others through her company Nadia Murdock Fit. Nadia has a B.A. in Psychology and taps into the strength and power of the mind when advising others in achieving their fitness goals. She also enjoys all forms of fitness from Kickboxing to Zumba and never goes a day without breaking a sweat.

You can find Nadia on Facebook, Twitter: @NadiaMurdockFit and at www.nadiamurdockfit.com.


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Barbara Baez

is the Director of Digital Marketing at Lucille Roberts with a B.A. in Journalism and a love for social media. Barbara is a Long Island native, now living in Westchester, who loves strength training and a flexible dieting “IIFYM” approach to staying in shape. Vegetarian, nail polish junkie, and Instagram addict, Barbara loves being a part of the Lucille Roberts fitness family!

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