5 great home workouts for rainy days

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20-minute fat burning cardio and abs: If I can’t go to the gym for some reason, I like to offset it by doing a workout that is fully focussed on the core. This is because we hardly ever incorporate core-only days in the gym. Working out your core at home not just makes you feel like you did something worthwhile, but it makes you feel like you did something that you could only have done at home.

In his channel The Body Coach TV, Joe Wicks has a routine which keeps the heart racing as it teams up exercises like jumping squats with static planks in a 35 seconds on, 25 seconds off pattern for 20 minutes. This is a great way to pair up a fat-burning workout while also focussing on the abs. More than 5.6million people have seen this video so it must be very rewarding after a sudden cancellation of gym plans.

I’m going to put one of my favourite online workouts right in the top two of this list because once again, it brings novelty to a routine. It’s incredibly unlikely one would do an isometric hold workout if they made it to the gym so why not try it at home? Girvan’s workout is based on 40-second holds and 20 seconds of rest time, and challenges every muscle group without repeating exercises. Isometric holds are fantastic for stabilisation and time-under-tension for your muscles.

The effect of doing these regularly will be felt in all the lifts in the gym. This is a really interesting workout from the reliable YouTube channel with 8.55million subscribers. The channel had a similar workout posted three years ago, but this is surely an upgrade posted last year.