outdoor exercise without equipment
Do you want to maximize your time at the gym, get fitter, stronger, and leaner? The mountain climber is a great multifunctional calisthenic exercise that works your full-body.
Mountain Climbers engage muscles all over your body. Shoulders, triceps, abdominals, lower back, legs, hip flexors, and butt muscles are at work. Incorporating a twist into the regular mountain climbers additionally engage deeply the obliques, giving you a tighter core.
Benefits of Mountain Climbers
Mountain climbers have numerous advantages. They simultaneously challenge your cardiovascular and muscular systems:
- Efficiency: the mountain climber is time-efficient since it’s a compound exercise, working several joints and muscle groups simultaneously.
- Mobility: the constant and repetitive motion enhances hip flexibility, range of motion, and improves mobility.
- Heart-healthy: rapid movement and involvement of numerous muscles increase heart rate and circulation.
- Muscle-friendly: maintaining a pushup position while moving your legs strengthens your muscles.
- Fat-Loss: working your heart and muscular system at the same time helps you to burn more fat.
- Agility: mountain climbers help you become more athletic.
- Versatility: you don’t need any equipment and can be performed anywhere – a great outdoor exercise without equipment.
How to Do Mountain Climbers
- Start in a push-up position and tighten your core
- Bend one knee and draw it toward your chest
- Extend that leg back
- Switch legs and keep alternating.
VIDEO: How to Do Mountain Climbers with Twist
Challenge yourself a bit more by incorporating a twist to the regular mountain climber. You can perform a few traditional mountain climbers and then direct your knees towards your opposite shoulders. Start with 20 seconds and keep increasing the length of time.
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