Don’t want to go to the campus gym? Avoiding the crowd? Don’t like exercising? Or maybe you’re looking for something different in a fitness routine?
Well, whether you like or don’t like exercise but love movies, this might be something that interests you. Particularly, movie trailers with clips that demonstrate an exercise move with a movie soundtrack to come together as a 10-minute workout.
You know what they say: a 10-minute exercise is as good as hours in the gym, and according to Men’s Health, Ali Eaves, ”high-intensity interval workouts can help you improve your health and fitness in less time than traditional cardio.”
Moreover, according to author Daniel Bates, “short bursts of exercise lasting less than 10 minutes give you the same health benefits as slugging it out at the gym for hours.”
“A Boston University study found that so long as the 10-minute bursts make up your daily quota of exercise, you will see the difference on your body, as it concluded that some exercise is better than nothing and that by adding up the small things you can have a big impact … The results showed that compared to those who did not do enough exercise, everyone who did so weighed less and had lower BMI and lower cholesterol. Exercising had a stronger impact on cardiovascular risk factors in women than men, possibly because of physiological differences or unmeasured factors. But significantly, the benefits of short bursts of less than 10 minutes yielded the same benefits as those who worked out for longer.”
Flick-Fitness consists of five individual 2-minute moves for a total of 10 minutes
The movie trailer that we will be working out to today is Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, where we will be doing five moves that can be found throughout the movie. For example, you can expect the exercise routine to appear as the following:
1. Jump Turns (2 minutes) with 1-minute cool-down
2. Punches (2 minutes) with 1-minute cool-down
3. Jump Kicks (2 minutes) with 1-minute cool-down
4. Supermans (2 minutes) with 1-minute cool-down
5. Jogging-in-place (2 minutes) with 1-minute cool-down
Before we start the workout, see if you can identify the following exercise moves that were mentioned above by clicking on the image below to watch the trailer or you can watch the movie wherever it can be screened.
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In addition, the character strengths that you might find in the movie Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice to take on for this workout are courage (emotional strength), wisdom and knowledge (cognitive strengths), humanity (interpersonal strengths), temperance (protective strengths), and transcendence (spiritual strengths).
You need emotional strengths for the courage to start and finish well and cognitive strengths for practicing creativity and learning something new. You need interpersonal strengths for loving yourself and treating your body with kindness by working out to benefit it, as this also will improve your confidence in humanity. Protective strengths allow you to use prudence and self-regulation through the workout as you make sure safety comes first. Spiritual strength gives you an appreciation of beauty and excellence in doing the workout with the faith to see yourself through it on a daily basis until it’s completed for however many months you may choose to commit to the workout.
Thus, the goal for this Flix-Fitness workout is to inspire you to cinematic elevation, “the process by which a viewer observes virtuous behavior, feels physiological sensations of inspiration and is consequently motivated to do good or to be a better person” (qtd. Ryan M. Niemiec). Especially, when you’re having one of those days when you don’t feel like working out.
In fact, movies can help inspire and motivate you to exercise or work out by “the process of film that helps to suspend belief.”
“Viewers trust that what they’re seeing is true, and, in turn, think they can do it, too,” said Gary Solomon, a professor at Community College of Southern Nevada and author of “Reel Therapy” (Lebhar-Friedman Books, 2001).
So when you’re ready to begin this workout, click here or on the image below to try it out.
Image may be NSFW.
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Now you don’t have to just watch a movie; instead, you can put yourself in a movie by interacting with it in another way. After all, life is what you make it so why not make it like a movie and act your best to stay fit in the right role that only you know how to play.
Yet, who knows, maybe in the future you might see Flick-Fitness as one of the bonus features on DVDs (just dreaming big like a movie screen), so have fun with this one!