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by Kunle Odetoyinbo MSc BSc CN Med.
Sports Physiologist Tottenham Hotspur Football Club

Here are some tips you can adopt to start to enhance your physique and make sure you’re in tip top condition for the beach. Most are designed to be completed in the comfort of your own home, so there’s no need for busy, sweaty gyms or miserable runs around the neighbourhood.

Conclusion Tips

1) Before you start exercising, it’s important you stretch and warm up your muscles to avoid damaging them whilst working out. Lie along the length of your sofa, put your arms straight above your head and stretch the entire length of your body. You should also stretch individual muscles at your leisure.
2) Attempt to increase the variety of food groups you consume including meats, fruit, vegetables, dairy products and, most importantly, the places you buy them from!
3) Running / walking on the spot – again, the perfect exercise for the living room. To make this one more interesting and keep concentrating, try doing it whilst throwing your football above your head and catching it repetitively. Try this for 10-20 minutes every other day.
4) Keepy-uppy – frustrating at first if you’ve not done it before but a great move for getting the heart racing. Try this for ten minutes every other day
5) We are currently over obsessed with supplements at the expense of eating a healthy diet. So, try to take less of these by eating the right amounts of foods that contain them naturally, like fruit and vegetables.
6) From your armchair hold two phone books, magazines or any other object you can find in each hand and use them for biceps / tricep curls. Try to do three sets of 8-15 repetitions
7) Sit on the floor in a crossed legged position or with legs out in front of you whilst watching a match or TV programme. Try to build this into your own home routine so you spend 2-5 half hour slots per week sitting on the floor it will help to improve your posture. Do not use any supports.
8) Hold a football behind your head in both hands and perform sit-ups. Aim to do five sets of 10-20. Make sure your knees are bent.

NB Go slowly at first. Anyone with health concerns should consult a doctor.

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