Customer Anne-Marie Shares Her Workout Routine

Customer & New You Ambassador Anne-Marie has lost over 4 stone with our plan. After getting to her goal, her focus turned to maintaining her loss and getting strong. Here, she shares her workout routine, which has helped her tone up, get fit and feel better than ever!

These are the exercises I started of my fitness journey with. Once I built up my strength and stamina, I added in different ones but if you’re new to working out, this routine is a good starting point. Begin with light weights or even water bottles. I’m now using 4kg dumbbells getting ready for 5kg.

Basic squats

With feet hip width apart, relax your shoulders, keep your head and chest up, hold your core tight, keep your hands in front, breathe in and lower down like taking a seat, with your hips and bottom down, breathe out and push back up through your heels, whilst squeezing your glutes.

Do this for 60 seconds alternated with other exercises in a full circuit of 4 sets of each move.

Weighted squats 

Same as basic squats above but hold weights up in front of shoulders and don’t lean forwards!

Again, 60 seconds alternated with other exercises in a full circuit of 4 sets of each move.

Reverse lunges 

Relax your shoulders, keep your core tight, tuck your pelvis, keep feet apart to maintain balance, place one leg back and bend down, squeeze glutes and don’t bend front knee over toes, come up and squeeze, then swap legs.

60 seconds alternated with other exercises in a full circuit of 4 sets of each move.

Shoulder press

With feet slightly apart, keep core tight, soft bend in knees, tuck pelvis and don’t curve spine, place arms at 90 degree angles and push all the way up, pull back down so the elbows just below shoulders and then push back up.

60 seconds alternated with other exercises in a full circuit of 4 sets of each move.

Overhead triceps extensions

With your ore tight, squeeze glutes to stabilise the lower back. Avoid leaning back and lift weights above your head and then lower down to the top of your spine, keep elbows forwards and biceps by ears by squeezing – this keeps the work in the triceps. Lift back up.

60 seconds alternated with other exercises in a full circuit of 4 sets of each move.

Chest press and fly

Lie on your back with your legs apart, knees bent and feet by your bottom, focus on pushing lower back into floor for the full set. Keep arms bent with elbows just above the floor, push up, rotate weights, open arms and out and lower to just above floor, keeping a slight bend in arm, arms back up, squeezing chest, rotate weights and pull back down to start position.

60 seconds alternated with other exercises in a full circuit of 4 sets of each move

Bicep curls with rotation 

Elbows stay just behind ribs, tuck your pelvis and keep the core tight, shoulders are down, pull weights up focusing on using bicep, lower down and gently swoop to then lift to the sides and down to swoop back to front.

60 seconds alternated with other exercises in a full circuit of 4 sets of each move.

Anne Marie is sharing her New You maintenance journey on her Instagram account. Follow her for regular updates, including more workout regimes.