19 Apr 2025, Sat

Boost Your Fitness with These Quick 30-Minute Home Workouts During Self-Isolation

Boost Your Fitness with These Quick 30-Minute Home Workouts During Self-Isolation

Even though we’re stuck at home in self-isolation, it’s still Workout Wednesday! Fitness coach Helle Hammonds has three intense workouts for you that only take 30 minutes.

So, it’s official – the coronavirus has put the UK in lockdown for at least three weeks. We can only go out once a day to exercise, or face a fine – so jogging around the block every hour is out.

Now, more than ever, we need great home workouts that get our heart pumping and leave us feeling accomplished and just a bit sore the next day.

Want a challenge? Start the Healthista 30-day home workout challenge today. Helle Hammonds, a fitness and health coach, has created some effective and tough home workouts for us. She’s known for motivating people and using professional-level techniques to get results.

Try these three home workouts over the next few days and share your progress by tagging @HealthistaTV on Instagram.

The routine kicks off with a short warm-up followed by four segments with small breaks in between.

Warm-up:
1. Roll shoulders
2. Bodyweight squats
3. Curtsy lunge
4. Backward lunge
5. Bodyweight squats
6. Curtsy lunge

Next, do the following exercises:
1. Sumo squat (Advanced: lift heels)
2. Backward lunge kick – one side
3. Backward lunge – switch side
4. Shake it out for 10 seconds
Repeat three times

Then:
1. Narrow legged jump squat x2 to wide legged jump squat x2 (Beginner: no jump)
2. Split lunge – one side (Advanced: raise heels)
3. Split lunge – switch side (Advanced: raise heels)
4. Narrow ski jump
Repeat three times

For the third section:
1. Backward lunge to one knee raising jump – one side (Beginner: backward lunge only)
2. Backward lunge to one knee raising jump – switch side (Beginner: backward lunge only)
3. Bodyweight squat with two pulses
4. Hip thrust (Advanced: raise heels)

Finish with:
1. Split lunge squat switch from side to side – 5 reps each side
2. Jump squat – 10 reps (Beginner: squat without jumping)
3. Burpee – 10 reps (Beginner: half burpee)

Another routine starts with a short warm-up and then four sections with small breaks.

Warm-up:
1. Straight leg walkout
2. Straight leg walkout with a jump
3. Star jumps
4. Backward lunge and kick
5. Repeat once more

Next:
1. Tabletop hand to foot reach and tap
2. Tabletop legs kicks
3. Crunches
4. V-sit hold
5. Shake it out for 10 seconds
Repeat three times

Then:
1. High pike plank with hip tilts
2. Plank
3. High plank side mountain climber
Repeat three times

Next:
1. Walkout narrow – jump squat x2
2. Laying down straight leg raises
3. Wide leg jump squats
Repeat three times

Finish with:
1. Skaters – 20 seconds
2. High knees – 20 seconds
3. 20 seconds rest
Repeat three times

Enjoy the 30-day fat-burning home workout challenge to keep active during self-isolation. Try these 19 home workouts to stay moving. Check out the 5 best meal replacement shakes, 9 fat loss hacks from an Instagram star, a 5-minute meditation for stress, and meet a trainer who says you’re probably not eating enough if you want to lose weight.

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