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Each Wednesday the WPH features the WPH Wednesday Workout, designed to help you become a stronger, fitter, faster, and better handball player. From leg and shoulder strengthening exercises to HIT Training, biking, balance, footwork, agility, coordination, first-step explosiveness, hydration, cooling down, upper body strengthening, circuit training, altitude training, swimming, jogging, and much more, the WPH Wednesday Workouts focus on the areas that every handball player needs to reach their peak form.
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On this WPH Wednesday Workout, we’ll list Five Minute Home Workouts that you can do when you don’t have time, don’t have energy, or are sluggish from a hard workout on the previous day.
The key to being fit is consistency – no days off, ever. Some days you will have the time and energy to work out for two hours, other days you may have neither. On those neither days, make sure you are still doing something to elevate your heart rate, build strength, trigger the positive feelings (endorphins) that result from working out.
Verywellfit HERE lists two HIT (high intensity training) Five Minute Workouts that will burn calories, burn fat, and enable your body to experience the “afterburn effect” for 48 hours after the workout, meaning your body will burn more calories and fat in the 48 minutes after a workout.
You will need a stopwatch to effectively complete these five minute workouts.
Verywellfit Five-Minute Workout #1
Do each exercise for one minute, rest for 15 seconds between each exercise
- Burpees
- Jumping Jacks
- Mountain Climbers
- Push-ups
- Running in Place
Verywellfit Five-Minute Workout #2
Perform 12 Repetitions of each exercise, repeat the sequence as many times as possible in five minutes
- Bicycle crunches
- Jump lunges
- Jump-squats
- Push-ups
Five-Minute Workout #3
Perform each exercise for one minute, rest for 15 seconds in between each exercise
- Jump rope
- Wall sit
- Plank
- Lunges
- Jumping Jacks
Many times you may think you only have the energy for a five-minute workout, but once you start, your energy level soars – you may turn your five-minute workout into ten, or fifteen. Remember, the key to being fit is consistency – do some form of exercise every day.
David Fink
WPH Fitness Director