Treat yourself to 12 days of health and wellness.
On the 12th day of Christmas, I worked on my bo-dy! Cheesy, but hey, it had to rhyme. Every year, you make the conscious effort to treat everyone you know to at least one special gift. And, every year you most likely never get yourself anything. This is the perfect time to take yourself (or your health, rather) off the back-burner! The best gift that you can give yourself, won’t cost you a dime! Even though this 12 Days of Fitness Challenge should count as one gift—, it’s actually 12 separate gifts to celebrate and energize you throughout the last days of holiday madness!
12 Days of Fitness Challenge: A Total Body Workout
The holiday season brings perspective, allowing us to spend time with loved ones, share love through gift-giving, and enjoy meals we’ve dreamed about all year -long. It’s usually about everyone except for you, because the theme is giving, but you shouldn’t leave yourself out when taking care of your loved ones. So, along with scrambling to find the perfect gifts, long workdays, and long lines, make some healthy time for yourself.
This holiday workout challenge is a fun mix of daily workouts to keep your spirits high and help you avoid feeling drained from the sometimes-exhausting holiday season. This is the time of year to indulge a little and eat what you want. Sticking to a workout routine will allow you to give in to those holiday cravings without tacking on a bunch of extra weight!
The Perfect Combination of Total Body Exercises
Below, you’ll find the 12 days of fitness challenge. It isn’t realistic to have every day be a total body workout, so the workouts are a bit spread out and diverse. This gives each muscle group some rest before being blasted with another workout.
Most workouts target multiple muscle groups, but there are also a few single body routines. This is just another way to give your muscles more rest, so you can keep pushing through the total body workout challenge.
All of the workouts involved are under 30 minutes. This gives you plenty of time to still be part of the craze of the holiday season without having to spend hours training. All of the routines are HIIT, also. This gives you fast work, minimal rest, and huge results.
For this challenge, you’ll need a yoga mat, a range of light to heavy weights (5-20 lbs), a chair, and an interval timer.
The First 7 Days of the Holiday Challenge
Time is short on these days, so try any of these 12 Fast and Fresh Dinner Recipes with 10 ingredients or Fewer for your busy life.
Day 1: 10-Minute Tabata Workout for Butt and Abs
Day 2: 30-Minute Melt Off the Weight Cardio Workout
Day 3: All-In-One Total Body Workout
Day 4: 10-Minute Tabata Workout for Lower Body
Day 5: 10-Minute Tabata Workout for Abs
Day 6: Tabata Tricep Workout
Day 7: 20-Minute Total Body Tabata Workout
There’s Still 5 More Days of Gifts
The last days of the holiday season can also be the most stressful. Try these 12 Techniques to Relax and De-Stress At Home.
Day 8: 10-Minute Tabata Workout for Arms & Abs
Day 9: Killer Legs and Butt Workout
Day 10: H.I.I.T. Your Chest Workout
Day 11: 20-Minute Back and Shoulders HIIT Workout
Day 12: All-In-One Total Body Workout
That’s it! You’ve completed the 12 Days of Fitness Challenge! Now go rest until after New Year’s because we have a New Year, New “You” Flat Belly Plan that gets your pre-holiday waist back and better!
Enjoyed this post? Check out more:
- Beginner’s Total Body 30-Day Challenge
- 7-Day HIIT Your Belly Challenge
- Simple Total Body Dumbbell Circuit Workout
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