Cut Your Exercise Time in Half With This Green Exercise

It's time to get in real shape while exercising green. While, yes, walking is a green exercise (since it's human-powered, requiring no electricity to make you go), as are sit-ups, push-ups and tricep dips; but many of us don't have a whole lot of time, nor the know-how to come up with an hour-long body weight-only, total-toning workout. Aren't we all looking for ways to cut time off our workout while getting more out of it (and of course, for little to no money)?

Well forget about all of that expensive, heavy, electricity-requiring gym equipment. For many of us those machines are so cumbersome and complicated that they tend to ward us off anyway. I have found the most basic, yet ridiculously effective green exercise band workout that can literally kick your butt in 5 minutes (believe me...). Just imagine what it can do to you in 30-minutes! Instead of a full 60-minute workout, the Core Transformer workout created by celeb trainer Linda LaRue will burn just as many calories, engage even more muscle groups, and get you seriously sweating in 30 minutes. Promise.

The concept is simple. It's literally a no-brainer exercise that as you do it, you think "why didn't I think of this?" Linda shows us how to move our bodies in exercise the way we move in daily life: functionally, 3-dimensionally, engaging multiple body parts at once... but with resistance. If you think about it, most movements are initiated with the trunk (the core/abs). When you move multi-dimensionally (ex: arms and legs simultaneously), you can't not engage the core, which is why the Core Transformer is also referred to as Crunchless Abs.

Watch the Core Transformer Workout in action!

The great thing about this workout is that you no longer have an excuse not to do it. You can take it anywhere- the gym, your backyard, even on vacation; and all you need is a measly 30-minutes to complete the session. Even if you've got 5-minutes you can still get in a decent workout.

All you need is this Core Transformer natural rubber band. Fix the straps around the arches of your feet. Cross the band in front of you twice then. Slip your hands in the loops. Make sure you have the same amount of band on either side, slightly bend your knees, feet shoulder-width apart, shoulders back and down. And you're ready to burn some serious calories!

Core Transformer? foundation moves

— The Squat

— CT foundation move (do one set of 16 reps)

— The Wave

— CT foundation move (do one set of 16 reps)

— HIIT Plyo. (do one set of 8 reps)

— Pelvic Twist (do one set of 8 rotations)

— Side Squats (do one set of 16 reps)

— Pelvic Twist (do one set of 8 rotations)

— Side Squats (do one set of 16 reps)

— Double Fisted Rainbow Arms (do one set of 8 reps)

— March with Torso Twist (do one set of 8 reps)

— Golf Swing (do one set of 8 reps on each side)

— Speed Skating (do one set of 16 reps)

— Figure 8's clasping hands (do one set of 8 reps)

— Mash Up— Now put it all together without taking a break!