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Westchester’s The Glute Recruit gives us easy instructions on how to stay in shape with bodyweight exercises from the comfort of home.
While taking a seat and unwinding after a long day at work is completely understandable, that doesn’t mean you have to sit idly by on the couch watching your six-pack turn into a beer keg.
If you’re looking to save money or skip a trip to the gym, Westchester-based personal trainer Jessica Mazzucco, otherwise known as The Glute Recruit, has given us five simple exercises you can do in your own home to stay healthy and — if you’ll pardon the pun — get your butt in gear. Best of all? These exercises require no equipment and don’t require much space to complete.
The Glute Bridge
This exercise targets the glutes, hips, and legs for both strengthening and development, but also is a staple exercise/stretch in alleviating lower back and knee pain caused by tight hip flexors, a common problem if you do excessive sitting.
Lateral Lunge
Another way to engage glutes and quads for strengthening and development, this movement is also a great way to stretch out tight inner thighs, another sign of too much sitting around.
Bird Dog
Targeting the back, abs, and glutes, this is a great bodyweight exercise that challenges your balance, core strength, and stability.
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Plank Taps
Working the muscles in your upper body (e.g. shoulders and triceps) and the abdomen, this bodyweight exercise is a fantastic test of strength, balance, and endurance.
Jumping Jacks
One of the best bodyweight exercises to improve cardiovascular endurance and coordination, this is a total-body exercise and will help increase metabolic rate while keeping your heart healthy.
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