Anonymous wrote:Rowing machine - great full body workout, even if you only have time for a short workout.

+1 although it's an investment of $/space and has a learning curve, but it's the best low impact full body workout.

OTOH there are some great high intensity body weight exercises you can do with no equipment as PPs mentioned.

Is spending 15 minutes to walk fast too much for you to do?

What do you do at lunch time?
You could also get up every hour to move for 5 minutes. In those 5 minutes, you can set 1 minute to do one type of exercise like stretches, squats, punch the air. Anything. Surely, you can think of some movement. Can't do it every hour? How about every 2 hours?

I think if you can't find 15 minutes to do something related to your health in a day, you need to reprioritize things in your life.

Rowing machine - great full body workout, even if you only have time for a short workout.

Anonymous wrote:I need to exercise more. I’m pretty sedentary now and don’t have much extra time in my day. What’s your fastest most effective workout that you like do to regularly?

Ideally it would be something I could do at home/near home with or without a video. I’m going to try getting up a little earlier in the morning to get it done before my day gets away from me.

Thanks!

Can you squeeze in a brisk 10 minute walk-jog around your neighborhood?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to 2nd the 7-minute workout. Do it 3 times. You've got a great workout in 20 minutes. Or the 100 workout
100 jumping jacks
90 crunches (or replacement of a 90 second plank or something, I'm not a fan of crunches)
80 squats
70 leglifts
60 Jumping jacks
50 crunches (see above)
40 squats
30 leglifts
20 jumping jacks
10 minute run.

That'll be 15-20 minutes depending upon how fast you can get through the calisthenics. No arm things, but maybe add some pushups.

PP, thanks for this. Very structured and don’t have to think about it. I will do everything except replace the 10 min run with a 30 min brisk walk.

Sounds great! Warning, 80 squats is hard!!!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I need to exercise more. I’m pretty sedentary now and don’t have much extra time in my day. What’s your fastest most effective workout that you like do to regularly?

Ideally it would be something I could do at home/near home with or without a video. I’m going to try getting up a little earlier in the morning to get it done before my day gets away from me.

Thanks!

The biggest question here is what is your goal? Building muscle? Losing weight? Getting cardio fitness?

Thank you! All these people giving advice and they don't even know what her goals are. If it's just to get her off her butt, then you did a good job. Otherwise, kind of pointless.

OP — Thanks again for sharing your experience, you’ve given me lots to work with!

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to 2nd the 7-minute workout. Do it 3 times. You've got a great workout in 20 minutes. Or the 100 workout
100 jumping jacks
90 crunches (or replacement of a 90 second plank or something, I'm not a fan of crunches)
80 squats
70 leglifts
60 Jumping jacks
50 crunches (see above)
40 squats
30 leglifts
20 jumping jacks
10 minute run.

That'll be 15-20 minutes depending upon how fast you can get through the calisthenics. No arm things, but maybe add some pushups.

PP, thanks for this. Very structured and don’t have to think about it. I will do everything except replace the 10 min run with a 30 min brisk walk.

Also think about flexible.

One meeting a day I do sitting on the floor.

Google floor sitting flexibility.

I do 90 degree sitting, criss cross, W sitting,

I try to do each position for 3 minutes.

Google 100 push-ups program
It takes 5-10 minutes a day. I’m weak and I git up to 40 push-ups.

Anonymous wrote:OP — Thanks for the quick responses! I’m not in great shape, but I could do a burpee without collapsing.

Time really feels like the issue. If I could say: I only have to get up 10-20 minutes earlier, I think I could do it. At least as a start…

OP, can you incorporate exercise in anything you do on a regular basis? Like can you walk to the store instead of drive? I have found that small changes like that add up quickly and can create a habit of movement in your day.

Search YouTube for a 20 minute no equipment workout - preferably one geared toward beginners. If you don’t have time to do the whole thing, do what you have time for and try to finish the rest later in the day. If you’re out of shape and start off with 10 minutes of nurses, there’s a good chance you’ll be miserable, so I’d work up toward more intensity.