Finding time to exercise can be difficult, especially when your schedule is packed. But even 10 minutes of exercise can improve your fitness and health. This beginner-friendly 10-minute workout is a fantastic place to start and easy to fit into your daily schedule.

This routine focuses on a few basic exercises such as hip bends, knee bends, core work, balance, and cardio. As your body gets used to these moves, you can add light dumbbells or kettlebells to challenge yourself.

How It’s Done

  • Perform 1 set of each exercise for the time or reps indicated.
  • Rest 15 seconds between each movement.
  • Complete this circuit twice.

The 5 Full-Body Exercises

1 – Squat

  1. Stand tall with feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart and chest up.
  2. Hold your hands out in front of you for balance.
  3. First sit down and then stand up as if you were sitting in an imaginary chair.
  4. Keep your face and head forward.
  5. Lower your body so that your thighs are parallel to the floor. Put all your weight on your heels.
  6. Keeping your body tensed, push your body up through your heels to return to starting position.

Perform 12 repetitions.

2 – Push-Ups

  1. Start on all fours with your hands on the floor, slightly wider than vertical with your shoulders, but in line with them.
  2. Your body should form a straight line from your shoulders to your ankles.
  3. Squeeze your abs as hard as you can and hold them.
  4. Lower your body until your chest almost touches the floor, making sure your elbows are close to your torso.
  5. Pause and return to starting position.

Perform 20 reps.

3 – Single-Leg Deadlift

  1. Stand with feet hip-width apart and hold a dumbbell in each hand at your sides.
  2. Extend one leg behind you as you lean forward until your body is parallel to the floor and your arms are extended toward the floor.
  3. Return to starting position.

Repeat 12 to 20 repetitions on each leg.

4 – High Plank

  1. Lie on the floor, face down.
  2. Lift yourself up, supporting yourself on the floor with the balls of your feet and your hands.
  3. Contract your abdominal and gluteal muscles (the muscles that make up your buttocks) and hold the position as long as you can.
  4. Gradually increase the length of time you hold the position.
  5. Rest approximately one minute between repetitions.

Try to resist as long as possible.

5 – High Knees

  1. First, stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and your hands out in front of you.
  2. Push off with your right leg so that your knee touches your right hand. Return to starting position.
  3. Repeat with the other leg.

Do 10 reps with each leg.

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