10 Easy Exercises To Get You Fit For Summer

The Exercise: Start as you would for the squat, with your knees roughly hip width apart, your head up, and your toes pointing forwards. Step directly forward and bend both knees to lower your body. The whole thing should be one fluid motion. Your front knee should be bent to about 90 degrees and your back knees should be just above the floor. Push back to the start then lunge forward with the opposite foot.

If the back knee touches the ground or the front knee reaches past the knee return to the starting position and try again, adjusting the distance of the initial stride until you find the right amount of space.

Make It Harder: Hold a pair of weights in your hands. Make sure that your elbows aren't locked, and your arms don't swing as you step forwards. Alternatively, try a jumping lunge. Start with the basic lunge before jumping upwards, switching your leg positions in mid-air. Land in the lunge position to absorb the impact.

Easy Workout: For a great low body work out, simply alternate sets of squats and lunges. Like the abdominal exercises, try to think in blocks of eight to twelve. So you might want to do ten squats, followed immediately by ten lunges. Give yourself about a minute's rest before repeating, and aim to do three sets altogether for a total of thirty squats and thirty lunges.