8 Excellent Exercises That Require Minimal Movement

In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, it is important not only to stick to a good diet but also to exercise regularly. However, in reality, many of us find it difficult to introduce regular exercise into our schedule because it is often filled to the brim with lots of tasks and errands.

To overcome this problem, you can do isometric exercises - a type of resistance exercises that cause muscle contraction and strengthening. Performing these exercises don't need a lot of moving space and they aren’t time-consuming, but their benefit to the body is great! 

* We recommend repeating each exercise about 10 times to see best results in a short time.

1. Butterfly Wings  

This excellent exercise will help you sculpt your legs and buttocks, and will strengthen your lower back muscles. During execution, you will feel a "burning" sensation in all these areas, which is a sign that your body is working itself.

How to: 

Lie on your back close to the wall and bend both knees at 90 degrees. 

Lift your lower back off the floor and place your right foot bent against the wall. 

Place the left leg on the right leg and hands on your abdomen as shown in the picture. 

Stay in position for 5-30 seconds, switch between legs and then return to normal position. 

Perform the exercise 4-5 times a week. 

2. The Windmill 

The windmill is an excellent exercise for strengthening the legs and thighs as well as for toning the abdomen. Repeat the exercise with the opposite leg only once more and you’ll soon feel its wonderful effect.

How to: 

Lie on your back near the wall and place your hands on your upper abdomen. 

Hold your buttocks against the wall so you can stabilize yourself, and raise your right leg vertically while keeping your left foot as low as possible. 

Stay in this position for 5-30 seconds, repeat with your left. 

Perform this exercise 4-5 times a week.

3. Prayer Position  

This exercise will allow you to strengthen your chest muscles by using the resistance that your weight creates, without the need for actual weights or any other equipment.

How to:  

Bring your hands together as shown in the picture. 

Press your hands against each other as hard as you can without moving your shoulders. 

Stay in position for 10 seconds and release. 

4. Tricep Stretch  

For all those who want to strengthen their arms, this is the exercise for you. With a simple resistance posture, you can strengthen your triceps muscle (at the back of the arm), which is one of the largest muscles in this area of the body.

How to:  

Stand in front of a wall with your legs bent and place your fists on the wall level with your head. 

"Push" the wall using your muscles in the back of your arm without straining your shoulders. 

Stay in this position for 10 seconds and release. 

5. Toe Reach 

 This exercise is great for strengthening your abdominal muscles and legs and will allow you to tone these areas easily while investing less than a minute a day.

How to:  

Lie on your back and place your feet against the wall at a right angle with your toes facing up, as shown in the picture. 

Lift your right arm toward your right foot while your left-hand rests on your stomach. 

Stay in position for 5-30 seconds, repeat with your left foot and release. 

Perform the exercise 4-5 times a week. 

6. Scissors 

For those who have back pain, we recommend the next exercise that will strengthen the muscles in this area as well as the legs and abdomen.

How to: 

Lie on your back near the wall and lift your legs without bending your knees. 

Place your right heel on the wall and pull your left foot straight back, supporting your hips with your palms. 

Stay in this position for 5-30 seconds, repeat with your right leg and release. 

Perform the exercise 4-5 times a week. 

7. Low squat 

Everyone knows the subtle effects of squat exercises on the muscles of the buttocks and thighs and the next exercise will help you to tone these areas easily, quickly and with minimal effort.

How to: 

 Stand with your legs spread shoulder width. 

Crouch down until your thighs are parallel to the floor. 

Try to squeeze your feet together as tight as possible to contract your buttock and thigh muscles even more. 

Stay in position for 10 seconds and release. 

8. Bridge 

A great exercise to strengthen back and leg muscles, which will allow your body to be supported optimally and prevent pain in these areas, in addition to giving you a great overall feeling.

How to:  

Lie on your back with your hands laying at your sides as shown in the picture. 

Raise your back and legs, pin them to the wall as tightly as you can and tighten your thigh muscles. 

Stay in position for 5-30 seconds. 

Perform the exercise 4-5 times a week.

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Lower Back Pain: The Best Mobility Exercises to Stretch and Strengthen a Sore Back

Back pain comes with a lot of fear. Feel it and you either assume that you’re aging before your time or have some irreparable damage. Don’t freak out – most of the time, back pain can be attributed to limited mobility, which can be fixed with the right intel.  

While sitting at our desks is to blame, it has less to do with your slumping posture and more to do with the sheer amount of time we spend in this said position. “A problem that we have, as a society, is we spend a really long time at our computers,” agrees strength and conditioning coach Pennie Varvarides. “It’s not that sitting in that position specifically is bad. What’s bad is only ever sitting in that position, as it teaches your body that it doesn’t need to move through other postures.” 

When you then try to ‘improve’ your positioning, by standing up taller or working out, you may notice a lot of back pain. The worst thing you can do for lower back pain as a result of reduced mobility is to go on bed rest though.

“Moving is particularly good for low back pain – especially doing stretches specifically for back pain. If you haven’t done something specific, such as fallen or had a spine injury, getting out of your chair is the most beneficial thing you can do,” says Pennie. Although it feels scary to move your spine about, it should be able to move in all directions. “The spine is made up of lots of vertebra because it is designed to bend, move and twist in lots of ways,” says Pennie.

Improving mobility isn’t just about pain reduction though – it also makes your workouts and day-to-day life easier. “It comes down to movement freedom,” says Pennie. “If someone can’t touch their toes because their back is so stiff, it’s annoying, sure. But it also makes movements such as picking stuff up off the floor, playing with their kids, or putting on shoes way harder. These are things we have to do all the time that are suddenly more difficult because you’ve lost basic human function.”

Along with getting up regularly, Pennie suggests a few moves that will ease the spine and hips to improve the mobility in your lower back and help you feel less pain. “Ideally, you would have your spine move in all of the directions, every day. That doesn’t mean you have to spend hours working on mobility – maybe 10 minutes a day is enough,” she says. 

Here are four moves mobility moves to help reduce lower back pain. 

Cat-cow

“Most people don’t do cat-cow very well, because they move dramatically and quickly. It should be about slowly curling the spine through the positions,” says Pennie. 

1. Start in an all fours-position with your shoulders directly over your wrists and your hips directly over your knees. 
2. Starting from the bottom of your spine, slowly curl your spine towards the ceiling, pushing away from the floor and curling your neck in.
3. Inhale as you slowly unravel to arch the spine, tilting the head towards the ceiling and opening your chest. 

Repeat for 30 seconds

Jefferson curl

“Similarly to the cat-cow, it’s about getting the spine to lead the movement,” says Pennie. Although this may look and feel like everything you’re told not to do when deadlifting, it’s a great way to encourage spinal flexion. Once you’re familiar with the movement, try adding a light weight to encourage the pull through your back. 

1. Stand up tall with the feet together. 
2. Start the movement by tucking your chin in towards your chest and rolling down through the neck. 
3. Continue rounding through the shoulders then slowly through the spine, until your upper body is folded as closely to your legs as possible. Think of folding down one vertebrae of your spine at a time.
4. Keep the legs straight through the movement to feel the pull through your hamstrings. 
5. Unroll slowly back up to standing. 

Repeat for 30 seconds

Windmill

This builds strength through the lower back and hips, as well as stretching your posterior chain. You can also add weight into your left hand when you’re comfortable with the exercise. 

1. Take your feet into a stance just wider than hip-width and point both feet 45° to your right.
2. Place your right hand inside your right knee and your left hand up towards the sky. Keep eye contact with your left finger tips.
3. Bend your right knee and slowly lower your right hand down the inside of your leg while your left hand remains over head. 
4. Push back up to standing. 

Do 10 reps each side

Cross legged side bends

This move bends your spine sideways, rather than forwards and backwards, to train a different movement pattern. Once you’ve nailed the form, hold a weight on the side you’re leaning towards to gain strength, along with mobility. 

1. Stand up straight and place your left foot in front of your right foot with the outer edges touching. 
2. Bend your left knee slightly and start to slowly lean your weight to the left. 
3. When you’ve bent as far as you can, pull yourself back to the starting position. 

Repeat 10 times each side

 

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