Full Body Workout for Teenagers at Home

Burpees are an excellent workout for teenagers at home because you just need some space and your bodyweight to do them.

If you haven’t heard of or done burpees before, here’s how they’re done:

• Start standing

• Reach your arms up high and jump

• Get down into a pushup position

• Do 1 pushup

• Come back up

Do this 10 times. When you do it all together, it should look like one fluid exercise. Try not to stop in the middle, or crawl your way back up from the pushup. Please, don’t skip the pushup either!

This workout is meant to be explosive. So when you jump… jump high. Kick your feet out into pushup position and you’ll really feel the cardio.

This works out the chest, legs, and gives you a great warm up into the next workout…

Time for an ab workout! This is your chance to fight the voices in your head telling you to give up at this point. This is how to perform the plank:

• Start in a push up position

• Get your whole body flat

• Forearms touching the ground

• Hands together

• Squeeze your core

• (Use image above as a guide)

Hold this position for 1 minute. Increase as you get stronger. Try to have some sort of timer in front of you or do this with a friend and have them time you.

If at any point the plank gets too hard, try lifting your butt into the air and bring it back down. This will give you a tiny break and reset your mind for the rest of the plank.

Once your 1 minute timer is up, get prepared for this next tricep workout…

Elevated pike pushups are a great way to workout your shoulders while you’re home. No you don’t need that bench, you can use anything to get your feet up. If you’ve never heard of them before, here’s how they’re done:

• Find a chair, bed, or side of a couch

• Place your toes on it while hanging off the side

• Put your hands in a pushup position (shoulder width)

• Make your torso as vertical as possible (bend your hips for this)

• You should be in a handstand position with your feet on the chair

• Do a push up straight below your head

• Come back up

Do this 10 times. It may be quite tricky to get down at first, so I recommend trying it before doing the whole workout. Use the picture above to get a better idea.

If it’s too hard for you to get to 10, just do your best. Eventually your muscles will get used to it. You really feel the burn in your shoulders when you do it right and it’s a great way to end the full body workout.

Now we’ve all heard of squats, but let’s make sure that you’re doing them properly. This is an air squat, meaning no equipment necessary!

• Stand slight more than shoulder width apart

• Keep feet flat and back straight at all times

• Arms out in front of you

• Squat all the way down (no cheating!)

• Make sure your knees never go past your toes

• Come all the up and squeeze your glutes

Do this 30 times. It may seem like a lot, but this is the only real leg workout on the list and it really does burn.

Do not cheat or try to rush this leg workout! The next exercise will give you a break from your legs…

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Dips

Dips are an excellent exercise for targeting your tricep muscles! Find a low bed frame, side of a couch, or even a chair to perform the exercise. Here’s how you do them:

• Place your hands behind you (shoulder width apart)

• Have your fingers point towards your body

• Legs flat out in front of you (heels touching the ground)

• Bring your body down as far as you can go

• Use the bend of your elbows to come back up

Do this 10 times. These burn so much, but that just means it’s working! If you think you can do more, do more. The workout might be slightly more or slightly less effective depending on what you’re doing the dips on.

Your body doesn’t need to be completely flat like a plank. Let your butt relax because you’re still lifting the same amount of bodyweight.