The holiday workout

Jetting off? Need to shape up fast? Check out this awesome holiday workout from Elia Siaperas, celebrity personal trainer and studio manager at The Laboratory Spa and Health Club.

It’s a great bodyweight workout – no workout equipment required! – that you can do anywhere, so it’s perfect for helping you get in bikini shape pre-hol. But it’s also great for keeping up the good work between sunbathing sessions and mojitos, so you look as awesome at the end of your hol as you did at the beginning!

It’s a total-body workout that will help you slim and tone. ‘This workout is designed to target all the muscle groups and your cardiovascular system,’ says Elia. And it’s easy peasy. ‘This workout is very simple, but very effective,’ says Elia.

How to do it
Do 20 reps of each exercise and perform each exercise back to back until you get to the bottom of this list. Then rest for 1 minute and repeat the circuit another two to four times. To keep things interesting and keep the intensity up, time yourself on how long it takes you to get through one circuit. Then, on the next round, try to beat your time! Go hard, or home… only joking! But do give it your all, it’s worth it!

1. SQUAT JUMPS
Push your bottom and hips backward and lower into a squat. Push through your legs to rise out of the squat and jump up as high as possible.

2. PRESS-UPS WITH ALTERNATE KNEE TUCK
Start in plank position and bend your arms to lower your chest toward the floor. As you do so, bring one knee outside of your arm and toward your shoulder. Push up and return to plank position. Repeat this exercise alternating the knee.

3. BURPEES 
Start standing. Crouch down, placing you hands on the floor, then jump your feet back to plank position. Jump your feet back to a crouched position, then jump up as high as you can.

4. WALKING LUNGES
Start standing and take a big step forward with one leg. Bend both legs to a 90-degree angle and lower into a lunge. Swing the back foot forward to take another step, lower into the next lunge and repeat.

5. PLANK 
Starting on your hands and knees, step your feet back so that your legs are straight and your bodyweight is balanced on your feet and your hands. Keep your arms straight and your shoulders over your hands. Try to keep a straight line from your shoulders to your heels. Hold for 30 seconds.

6. CARDIO HIGH KNEE RUNS
Run on the spot, driving your arms forward and back and lifting each knee to hip height.

7. STANDING SHOULDER PRESS WITH STOOL OR CHAIR
Grab a stool or chair – nothing too heavy or valuable! Start standing, holding the stool at chest height. Push the stool up above your head. Repeat.

Repeat two to four times

Done? You’re ready to flaunt that hot bikini bod, so get packing!