US Fitness Guide

Healthy weight loss is a matter of changing your day-to-day habits on a long-term basis. One of these habits is regular exercise, which will burn calories, increase muscle tone and speed up your metabolism — making your body’s systems more efficient. However, it’s often challenging to fit exercise into your daily routine, especially if you’re busy. A plan will help you find or create intervals in your schedule to fill with exercise.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

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Instructions

Things You’ll Need:

• Comfortable workout clothing
• Training shoes
• Pair of dumbbells
• Pair of ankle weights

Squats for Your Quadriceps

1. 1

   Stand straight with your feet shoulder-width apart.

2. 2

   Contract your abs and bend your knees slowly in a sitting motion until your thighs are parallel to the ground. Make sure your knees do not go past the tips of your shoes.

3. 3

   Squeeze your glutes and push off the balls of your feet to return to the starting position.

4. 4

   Repeat your squats eight to 12 times for one set.

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Swapping two glasses of red a night for a pint of beer can help people lose weight, according to a new study.

Research by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has shown that drinking beer rather than wine could mean losing almost 10lb in a year.

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