Keeping up with your health and career

“Dancing queen” Julianne Hough keeps everyone guessing how she keeps her body so fit! With her wide-known dance moves on the show ‘Dancing with the stars’, she inspires all her fans to keep up with their bodies. Not only does the star jump into character for her dancing routines, she does it well on screen too. While juggling a busy career, I bet everyone can wonder how she steers her way through success. It’s not easy handling the heavy weight of work, and everyday life while keeping up with your health, but it’s not entirely impossible.

Start with a workout frame that you can do anywhere. In a perfect world, this will be a type of workout that doesn’t require much preparation. Tabata protocol is a training of high-intensity intervals that works on both aerobic, and anaerobic forms of exercise. Here are some suggestions when practicing these workouts for keeping up with your health and career:

Push-up 
Get into a plank position with hands planted a little bit wider than shoulder width apart. Keep the elbows close to the body throughout the movement. Ground the toes into the floor and engage the abs and back so the body is neutral. Lower the body in one straight line until the chest touches the floor. Keeping the core engaged, exhale, and push back to the start position.

Dumbbell front squat 
Hold a dumbbell at the sternum (the center of the chest) and do a basic front squat. Place feet a little wider than shoulder-width apart, hips stacked over knees, knees over ankles. Inhale and unlock the hips, bringing them back as the knees begin to bend. Keep the chest and shoulders upright, and continue until the hips are slightly less than 90 degrees from the ground. On the way back up, engage the core and drive through the heels to return to standing. This way you can stay focused on your career and health.

Lunge jump 
Start standing with the feet together and lunge the right foot forward, bending the knee about 90-degrees and keeping the torso vertical. Then, jump straight up, and while in the air, switch legs and land in a lunge with the left foot forward.

According to Japanese professor Dr. Izumi Tabata, these moves help make your body continue moving, and pushes your body to go beyond the primary limit. Countless studies have shown that being moderately active just thirty minutes every day (this includes anything that gets your heart rate up) like running in place in the office, or lunging your way to the vending machine can make a huge difference in fitting your workout between your busy schedule. Like Julianne, she doesn’t let a busy schedule get in the way of her health, and looking great, neither should you! Safaria