If I could only choose four exercises to perform daily, the squat, the push up, the plank and the pull up would be the ones I would pick.
Here is why:
Squats: Squats are a great full-body exercise that strengthen the muscles in your legs, glutes, core, and back. Doing squats daily helps to improve your overall strength and balance and can help to prevent injury.
Push-ups: Push-ups are a great upper body exercise that strengthens the muscles in your chest, shoulders, arms, and core. Doing push-ups daily helps to improve your upper body strength and posture and can help to prevent injury.
Planks: Planks are a great core exercise that strengthen the muscles in your core, back, and legs. Doing planks daily helps to improve your core stability and balance and can help to prevent injury.
Pull ups: Pull ups work several muscle groups at the same time. Every time you do a pull-up, you work on your biceps, triceps, forearms, wrists, grip strength, lats, shoulders and core. One can do this exercise anywhere; at home, in a park, in a gym or anywhere possible. All you need is a bar and a place the bar can be firmly mounted. In addition to building up the bigger muscle groups, pull-ups effectively strengthen the grip.
Exercise hacks
Make it fun: Exercise doesn’t have to be a chore. Enjoy yourself and you will actually look forward to your workouts.
Do it early in the morning: My favourite time to work out is between 5:00 am and 6:00 am. Plus, I know that if I work out at this time, nothing will get in the way of the workout later in the day. It’s a beautiful time of day, not too hot, and there’s nothing like showering and going to work knowing that I’ve put in a great exercise.
Make it a habit: If you can do exercise at the same time, every single day for a month, you are more likely to make it a habit. Consistency makes habits more ingrained. Once it’s a habit (and start easy in the beginning!), then you can step up the intensity a bit.
Don’t obsess about weight loss: Yes many of us would like to lose some weight. But if you’re motivated solely by weight loss, exercise will be a tough proposition. The reason is that you might not lose weight right away. It will come off if you can keep it up over time, but in the beginning you might be disappointed (especially if you haven’t changed your eating habits). Just get into the habit of exercise, and worry about the weight later.
