Start with a bodyweight warm-up. The kind that Craig Ballantyne suggests in all his Turbulence Training programs. Doing this actually prepares your muscles better for the work you'll be doing and increases fat burning and calorie burning. A great warm-up set for any full body workout is push-ups, squats, and mountain climbers. You get your heart rate up, blood flowing, joints lubricated, while doing upper body, lower body, and core work. It's time efficient and effective.
Group exercises and focus on full body movement. If you only had 15 minutes to power shop for lots of people would you go to a strip mall with lots of specialty stores or would you go to super target for great deals on lots of stuff. Same goes for your body. Forget about isolation moves and focus on full body moves that work more muscles. Workouts like the full body fat loss workout that works the entire body in under 20 minutes.
Include cardio intervals at the end and make them hard and fast. You can burn 200 calories with just 7 minutes of cardio intervals if you're doing them correctly. Try alternating between 45 seconds moderate cardio and 45 seconds super hard cardio. Do this for 7 minutes after a 7 minute full body circuit and you'll still have a couple of mintues to stretch or do some quick ab work. All this adds up to big time calorie burning in just 15 minutes. Try the interval cardio abs workout to get started.
Integrate other types of exercise into your workout. One of the best fat loss systems around is Tony Horton's Power Half Hour Package
. It mixes weights, pilates, yoga, kickboxing, plyometrics, and aerobics for maximum fat burning in less time. When you go from kicks to jumping squats, to push-ups to downward dog, to mountain climbers your body works hard to adjust to all the variety so you burn more calories and more fat in less time without getting as fatigued as you would working just one body part so in turn you get results faster too. Get P90X and let Tony give your fat loss workouts a boost.
