Easy and Quick Exercises to Lose Weight and Fat this Winter Season

Winters can be liked for the good food, cosy weather, Christmas cakes and what not, but this season, when we eat all those yummy delicacies, it can be hard to lose some extra pounds. To achieve a better body and lose extra fat, we bring you some exercises. You can easily practice them, with regular workout, you can lose fat from your body.

Pushups

Technique

• Get on the floor in the prone line position. Put all four limbs on the ground.

Keep the hands slightly wider than your shoulders, and make sure you do not lock the elbows; just  bend them slightly.

• Contract your abs and tighten your core by pulling your belly button toward your spine. 
• Breath in as you slowly bend your elbows and lower yourself to the ground, until your elbows are at a 90-degree angle.
• Breathe out while contracting your chest muscles and pushing back up through your hands, returning to the start position.
• Do 15 reps, and at least 3 sets

Benefits:

• Builds upper body strength

High to Low Plank

If you are a beginner, then you can start  the plank pose on your knees first and build up the stamina to be on your toes gradually.

Technique:

• Come in the high plank position, with your hands and toes aligned with your body in a straight line on the ground.
• Lower your body gradually down towards the ground by bending your elbows and then back up to your hands with control.
• Do 15 reps, and at least 3 sets

Benefits:

• It helps to strengthen chest muscles

Pike Push Up

Technique:

• Come in a plank position on the ground, keep your hands firmly on the mat or the ground.

• Now lift your hips up and upper body to form an inverted V shape.
• Now slowly start to bend your elbows downwards, and lower your upper body toward the ground.
• Stay there for a while and then slowly come back up to make the inverted V position. 
• Do 15 reps, and at least 3 sets

Benefits:

• Strengthens shoulders, arms, chest, back and core.

Heel Taps

Technique:

• Lie down on the mat in the supine line position. 
• Now slowly end on the side so that you can side bend the spine, and you reach your right hand toward your right heel.
• Squeezing in your abs.
• Repeat the same technique to do the side-bend to the left.
• Do 15 reps, and at least 3 sets

Benefits:

• Helps in increasing body stability and flexibility.

Supermans

• Lie down on the mat in the prone line position. 
• Keep the arms out straight in front of you.
• Raise your arms gently so that you extend the spine to raise the chest area slightly higher than the floor.
• Raise your legs off the ground as well.
• Now your body will make a slight curve outwards.
• Do 15 reps, and at least 3 sets

Benefits:

• Strengthens the lower back, glute muscles, hamstrings and abs