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10 Moves for a Cardio Workout at Home—No Equipment Required
Sure, you can schlep to the gym and hop on the elliptical for 45 minutes. Or you can lace up your sneaks and head outside for a long run to turn up your heart rate and calorie burn. But when the temperatures drop or you just don’t have time to leave your house, you can still squeeze in a solid cardio workout at home. All you need is a little room to move—and the ability to push yourself, just enough so your heart starts pumping and the sweat starts flowing.
How can you do that? Two words: plyometric exercises.“[These] exercises are perfect for a cardio workout at home, as they save space (all the movements can be done in one place) and time because it requires max effort—and thus, less overall time spent—while also offering strength, power, and cardio benefits,” Judine Saint Gerard, NASM-CPT, head coach at Tone House in New York City, tells Health. “With these added benefits of strength and power, it may be even better than just trotting away on the elliptical.”
RELATED: The 10-Minute Cardio Workout You Can Do at the Office
The key to working hard enough to reap all the fitness rewards: firing up your core temperature so you start dripping sweat. “Most cardio workouts produce heat in the body—the more strenuous the workout, the more heat it produces, and sweating is the body’s way of cooling down,” she says. If you work through a cardio workout at home and finish it sweat-free, you’ll want to power up your intensity on the next go around. That means working faster or taking fewer breaks.
If you need a cardio workout to kick off your at-home training, Saint Gerard has the perfect routine for you. Here, she offers 10 plyometric exercises, plus how to time them to your heart-pumping advantage. Each one also has a low-impact variation for anyone jumping back into fitness after a long hiatus or someone who's starting a regular exercise routine for the first time. They're also smart options for those with injuries. The only thing you have to remember is to work hard so you end in sweat—so don't be too easy on yourself.
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The Workout
If you’re opting for the high-impact plyometric moves, do each exercise below for 30 seconds, and rest for 30 seconds between each exercise. Prefer staying on two feet and skipping the jumps? Follow the modified moves for 30 seconds each, with just 15 seconds of rest between each exercise. Do 2-3 rounds with 60-90 seconds of rest between each round. The best part: the more you practice the less rest you’ll need.
Mountain Climbers
1. Start in a plank position, shoulders over wrists, forming a straight line from shoulders to heels.
2. Keep core tight and back flat. Drive one knee in toward chest, then place it back down.
3. Immediately drive the opposite knee in toward chest. Then, place it back down. Continue alternating.
Modification: Eliminate the hop and slow down your pace, still driving one knee at a time in toward your chest.
Vinyasa
1. Start in a plank position, shoulders over wrists, forming a straight line from shoulders to heels.
2. Lower down as if you’re doing a push-up, keeping elbows tight by sides.
3. Then, move chest through arms, coming into a cobra or up-dog pose (slight arch in the back; chest toward the sky).
4. Next, push through hands and lift hips all the way up to a downward-facing dog position. Repeat, flowing back to a plank position.
Modification: Drop the knees while you lower into a push-up position for more support.
RELATED: 25-Minute Core-Strengthening Vinyasa Flow
Burpee
1. Start standing, feet hip-width apart.
2. Place both hands flat onto the ground in front of you and hop feet behind you into a plank. Make sure to keep hips up, core tight, forming a straight line from shoulders to heels.
3. Then, quickly hop feet back up toward hands.
4. Jump all the way up to stand, bringing arms above head and exploding off feet. Repeat.
Modification: Place hands flat on ground, step left foot back, then step right foot back and pause in plank. Then, step left foot in, step right foot in, and stand back up, bringing arms overhead.
Lunge Jumps
1. Start standing, feet together.
2. Step left leg back and lower into a lunge, both knees bent 90 degrees, back right knee just hovering off the floor.
3. Push through the heel of the front left leg to explode up, switching feet in the air.
4. Land softly back into a lunge position, right foot forward. Repeat with right foot forward and continue alternating.
Modification: Instead of jumping up from the lunge, drive through the heel of the front leg, bring back knee up toward chest and then kick it straight out in front of you. Place foot back down and step back with the opposite foot. Continue alternating lunges with a front kick.
RELATED: 5 Power Lunges for Killer Glutes
Squat Jumps
1. Start standing, feet slight wider than hip-width apart.
2. Push your hips back and down, keeping weight in the heels as you lower into a squat.
3. Explode off your feet, extending your hips to jump up into the air.
4. Land softly back into a squat position, knees bent. Repeat.
Modification: Eliminate the jump and push the pace of a regular bodyweight squat.
Pike-Ups
1. Start in a plank position, shoulders over wrists, forming a straight line from shoulders to heels.
2. Hop your feet in so that your hips drive straight up into the air and you hit a reverse V shape.
3. Then, hop the feet back to a plank position. Repeat.
Modification: From your plank position, walk feet up toward hands to create the reverse V shape, and then walk them back to a plank. Repeat, while pushing your pace.
RELATED: 20 Plank Exercises You Can Do at Home
Skater Jumps
1. Start standing, feet hip-width apart.
2. Push off your left foot to hop to the right, landing with a bent knee, hips back, chest up, and bringing your left foot behind your right.
3. Then, push off your right foot, hopping to the left. Continue alternating.
Modification: Alternate curtsy lunges by stepping one foot diagonally behind you, lowering into a lunge position with knees bent 90 degrees. Step back up to standing and repeat on the other side. Continue alternating.
Tuck Jumps
1. Start standing, feet hip-width apart.
2. Lower into a shallow squat position and then explode up into the air, driving knees up into chest.
3. Land softly back down, with bent knees. Repeat.
Modification: Start in a kneeling position. Step left forward, and then right, coming into a low squat position. Then stand up. Lower back into a squat. Then place left leg back down to a kneeling position, and then right leg. Repeat, starting with the right leg. Continue alternating.
RELATED: 4 Fat-Blasting Jumping Exercises
Lateral Hurdle Hops
1. Start standing, feet together.
2. Place a yoga block or band next to you (or pretend there is a hurdle next to you). Bend knees slightly and drive up and over, hopping over the “hurdle” as you drive knees up.
3. Land softly with bent knees. Repeat, hopping to the other side. Continue alternating.
Modification: Instead of jumping over the “hurdle,” step over it, starting with the knee closest to the hurdle, and still driving the knees up toward chest. Keep arms straight overhead as you go.
High Knees
1. Start standing with feet together.
2. Drive one knee up toward chest, with the opposite arm driving forward (elbows bent 90 degrees).
3. Quickly place the foot back down and drive the other knee up and opposite arm forward.
4. Continue alternating, landing lightly with each step like you’re running in place.
Modification: March the knees up toward the chest, eliminating the hop.
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Sport24.co.za | CSA: The fall that’s been so fast and so far
Cape Town – The pace and violence of Cricket South Africa’s (CSA) descent into widespread levels of chaos has been as remarkable as the phenomenon itself.
Perhaps, for purposes of demonstration, resorting to the cricket calendar is the most educative yardstick: England are already in the warm-up phase of a major tour of our shores – the opening match against the Proteas is the first Test at Centurion from Boxing Day – and the domestic backdrop is enormously different to when they last had a safari here, in 2015/16.
Mostly for all the wrong reasons.
When vastly experienced (domestically and internationally) administrator, chartered accountant, former SACB first-class player and then-CEO Haroon Lorgat presented his CSA annual statement for 2015/16, he wrote bullishly at the time: “We experienced another stellar financial performance during the period under review, with our actual revenue exceeding budget by some margin (2016: actual R825m, budget R620m; 2015: actual R761m, budget R511m).
“We were also flattered by the renewal of all our major commercial sponsorships plus a new four-year flagship deal with Standard Bank South Africa … they are now the Proteas’ title sponsor across all three formats of the game.”
Whisk to the present, and CSA’s financial conundrum, by stark contrast, is extremely well-documented … a situation only compounded a few days ago by Standard Bank announcing their quitting of the Proteas sponsorship after the current season, following a sequence of debilitating flashpoints in the corridors of power which culminated in the suspension earlier this month of Lorgat’s successor as CEO in late 2017, Thabang Moroe.
While Lorgat was able to trumpet the firmly “on board” status of various other vital sponsors four years back, a glaring feature of the Moroe administration has been its inability to boast commercial backing for the lion’s share of major franchise competitions and even the supposed new “international-flavoured” but currently loss-making Mzansi Super League.
Back in 2015/16, the now merely “CSA 4-Day Franchise Series” was still the Sunfoil Series, and the then still active franchise T20 competition (abolished now after being run as the CSA T20 Challenge before falling victim to austerity measures this summer) was sponsored by Ram Slam.
Only the Momentum One-Day Cup maintains a common title between 2015/16 and the present.
But the national team set-up was also infinitely more clear-cut when it came to occupation of important, clear-cut portfolios.
There was a full-time head coach then in Russell Domingo – roughly in the middle of his four-year tenure – as opposed to the confusing situation just a few days ago of an interim director of cricket (Graeme Smith, just signed, albeit for only three months) overseeing an interim team director in Enoch Nkwe (now effectively slipping a notch to assistant coach, after one series, with the appointment of Mark Boucher to 2023 as head coach … at least a decisive step).
Nor were the national selection berths vacant, as they had been more recently for several months: at the time, Linda Zondi (welcomed back on board on Saturday) then headed up a panel also comprising Hussain Manack, Domingo and two former national players in Ashwell Prince and Errol Stewart.
Just a handful of months onward from the English visit of 2015/16, South Africa played in a one-day international Tri-Series in the Caribbean (also featuring West Indies and Australia) … and a landmark event occurred that would, arguably, make a significant mockery of at least part of the campaign to oust the streetwise Lorgat as CEO in 2017.
Later to be branded “anti-transformational” by an increasingly strident, ambitious black African lobby within the CSA corridors, Lorgat was proudly able to trumpet, in early June 2016, a national team fielding an unprecedented eight players of colour.
Not only that, but the combination – which saw appearances for all of Hashim Amla, JP Duminy, Farhaan Behardien, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Imran Tahir, Tabraiz Shamsi and an emerging pace sensation in Kagiso Rabada – whipped the Aussies by 47 runs in Providence, Guyana.
Mere lip-service to transformation under Lorgat’s watch? Hardly, it seemed crystal clear.
Remember, too, a rich irony at the time: CSA were among several domestic sports administrative bodies being forbidden, by then Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula (now Minister of Transport, mind), from bidding for international-event hosting because of what he perceived to be a sluggish pace of transformation.
If you wished to deepen that sense of irony further, you could run the rule over the last Proteas team to play a one-day international, under the CSA charge of a pre-suspension Moroe: in the last match of their ill-fated 2019 World Cup on July 6, a consolation, narrow triumph over Australia at Old Trafford, South Africa fielded an XI dominated by white players.
Any perceptive, visiting English enthusiast (there are always plenty of them) to South Africa for the looming series, interested in more than just on-field fortunes between the two countries, might well scratch his or her head over just how comprehensively cricket administration here has lost its lustre and competency in the space of the four years between tours.
Somewhere, Haroon Lorgat (far from faultless, yet reputationally the skipper of tight ships) might be looking into a non-alcoholic beverage and pondering recent life with some sense of bewilderment as well …
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Account Manager – Water Treatment
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- Managing and implementing Continuous Improvement.
- Travel and support business requirements in South Africa and outside of South Africa.
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- Candidates must also be willing to work irregular hours and travel extensively.
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It / Ict Technical Engineer X 2
Our client is seeking 2 driven and motivated IT / ICT Technical Engineers to join the Technical Department.
Open position : IT / ICT Technical Engineer X 2
Location : Port Elizabeth
Salary : Market related
Type : Permanent position
Non equity : Yes
Reporting to : Director
Job requirements :
– Grade 12 Certificate
– Tertiary qualifications are required
– 1 to 3 years working experience required after the qualification was obtained within a similar role
– MCSE and/or Cloud 365 Certification
– MS Server 2016
– MS Active Directory
– MS Exchange
– Office 365 and Tenant Management
– MS Azure Fundamentals
– Cisco and CCNA Skills
– Routing and Mikrotik Skills
– Back up knowledge on Veritas backup exec
– Acronis
– Ability to work under pressure and maintain existing clients infrastructure
– Positive and friendly
Duties :
– Achieve technical targets
– Maintain existing clients infrastructure
– Liaise with technical staff and manage services
Candidates meeting the above criteria are invited to apply for the position by emailing their CV to bulelwa@kingrec.co.za
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News24.com | Ramaphosa on reconciliation: More needs to be done
Reconciliation in South Africa can only be achieved once corruption and political divisions are eradicated, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said.
Announcing that he will be travel to Bergville in KwaZulu-Natal to observe the Day of Reconciliation on Monday, he said SA had “much further to go”.
Ramaphosa quoted the 2019 SA Reconciliation Barometer Survey 2019, which is published by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.
He said the report indicated that the vast majority of South Africans feel the country still needs reconciliation.
“According to the survey, most respondents agree that reconciliation is impossible as long as corruption continues, political parties sow division, those who were affected by apartheid continue to be poor, gender-based violence remains, we continue to use racial categories to measure transformation, and racism in our society remains unaddressed.”
He said reconciliation was about political and economic transformation.
“We must address the unfinished business of our democratic transition. We must close the festering wound of inequality that exists between our people. We must forge ahead with land reform and social development.”
Ramaphosa said work had to be done to unlock investment and reduce the cost of doing business.
“It is about the urgent measures we need to take to ensure a reliable supply of electricity to homes and businesses. It is about ensuring that our scarce water resources are preserved and equally available to all.”
He said inequalities in access to health care had to be reduced.
“We need to improve the quality of education in township and rural schools in particular and ensure that there is universal attendance in early childhood development centre.”
Ramaphosa also lauded the string of international achievements from the Rugby World Cup victory in Japan to Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi crowned Miss Universe.
“South Africans of all races took to the streets in an outpouring of national pride.”