The 12-Minute Athlete: Get Fitter, Faster, and Stronger Using HIIT and Your Bodyweight
Unlock your athletic potential and get into the best shape of your life with Krista Stryker’s HIIT and bodyweight workouts—all of which can be done in just minutes a day!

If you’ve ever thought you couldn’t get results without spending hours in the gym, that you’d never be able to do a pull-up, or that it’s too late to get in your best shape ever, The 12-Minute Athlete will change your mind, your body, and your life.

Get serious results with high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts that can be done in just minutes a day. Give up the excuses and learn to use your own bodyweight and a few basic pieces of portable equipment for short, incredibly effective workouts. Reset your mindset, bust through mental blocks, and set meaningful goals you’ll actually accomplish. You can finally ditch the dieting and enjoy food as fuel with simple eating guidelines to the 80/20 rule.

In The 12-Minute Athlete you’ll also find:
–A guide to basic calisthenics and bodyweight exercises for any fitness level
–Progressive exercises to achieve seemingly “impossible” feats like pistol squats, one-arm push-ups, pull-ups, and handstands
–More than a dozen simple and healthy recipes that will fuel your workouts
–Two 8-week workout plans for getting fitter, faster, and stronger
–Bonus Tabata workouts
–And so much more!

The 12-Minute Athlete is for men and women, ex-athletes and new athletes, experienced athletes and “non-athletes”—for anyone who has a body and wants to get stronger and start living their healthiest life.
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The 12-Minute Athlete: Get Fitter, Faster, and Stronger Using HIIT and Your Bodyweight
Unlock your athletic potential and get into the best shape of your life with Krista Stryker’s HIIT and bodyweight workouts—all of which can be done in just minutes a day!

If you’ve ever thought you couldn’t get results without spending hours in the gym, that you’d never be able to do a pull-up, or that it’s too late to get in your best shape ever, The 12-Minute Athlete will change your mind, your body, and your life.

Get serious results with high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts that can be done in just minutes a day. Give up the excuses and learn to use your own bodyweight and a few basic pieces of portable equipment for short, incredibly effective workouts. Reset your mindset, bust through mental blocks, and set meaningful goals you’ll actually accomplish. You can finally ditch the dieting and enjoy food as fuel with simple eating guidelines to the 80/20 rule.

In The 12-Minute Athlete you’ll also find:
–A guide to basic calisthenics and bodyweight exercises for any fitness level
–Progressive exercises to achieve seemingly “impossible” feats like pistol squats, one-arm push-ups, pull-ups, and handstands
–More than a dozen simple and healthy recipes that will fuel your workouts
–Two 8-week workout plans for getting fitter, faster, and stronger
–Bonus Tabata workouts
–And so much more!

The 12-Minute Athlete is for men and women, ex-athletes and new athletes, experienced athletes and “non-athletes”—for anyone who has a body and wants to get stronger and start living their healthiest life.
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The 12-Minute Athlete: Get Fitter, Faster, and Stronger Using HIIT and Your Bodyweight

The 12-Minute Athlete: Get Fitter, Faster, and Stronger Using HIIT and Your Bodyweight

by Krista Stryker
The 12-Minute Athlete: Get Fitter, Faster, and Stronger Using HIIT and Your Bodyweight

The 12-Minute Athlete: Get Fitter, Faster, and Stronger Using HIIT and Your Bodyweight

by Krista Stryker

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Unlock your athletic potential and get into the best shape of your life with Krista Stryker’s HIIT and bodyweight workouts—all of which can be done in just minutes a day!

If you’ve ever thought you couldn’t get results without spending hours in the gym, that you’d never be able to do a pull-up, or that it’s too late to get in your best shape ever, The 12-Minute Athlete will change your mind, your body, and your life.

Get serious results with high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts that can be done in just minutes a day. Give up the excuses and learn to use your own bodyweight and a few basic pieces of portable equipment for short, incredibly effective workouts. Reset your mindset, bust through mental blocks, and set meaningful goals you’ll actually accomplish. You can finally ditch the dieting and enjoy food as fuel with simple eating guidelines to the 80/20 rule.

In The 12-Minute Athlete you’ll also find:
–A guide to basic calisthenics and bodyweight exercises for any fitness level
–Progressive exercises to achieve seemingly “impossible” feats like pistol squats, one-arm push-ups, pull-ups, and handstands
–More than a dozen simple and healthy recipes that will fuel your workouts
–Two 8-week workout plans for getting fitter, faster, and stronger
–Bonus Tabata workouts
–And so much more!

The 12-Minute Athlete is for men and women, ex-athletes and new athletes, experienced athletes and “non-athletes”—for anyone who has a body and wants to get stronger and start living their healthiest life.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781982136482
Publisher: S&S/Simon Element
Publication date: 03/31/2020
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Krista Stryker is an NSCA-Certified Personal Trainer and a leading expert on high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and bodyweight fitness. From trying her first push-up in college to teaching herself to do pull-ups and handstands, Krista is living proof of her philosophy that everybody is an athlete. She has helped tens of thousands of people to unlock their full athletic potential through her 12-Minute Athlete blog and fitness app. Krista has been featured in The New York Post, The Washington Post, SHAPE Magazine, Bodybuilding.com, and on ESPN. You can find out more about her work at 12MinuteAthlete.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 Get in the Best Shape of Your Life 1

My Story: How I Got Here and Why Anybody Can Do These Workouts 1

Why Bodyweight Training? 4

Less Is More 6

Should Men and Women Train Differently? 8

2 Body vs. Mind: Why Mind-Set Plays Such an Important Role in Fitness 11

Getting Your Mind Right and Setting Expectations 11

Busting Through Excuses Once and for All 12

Finding Your "Why" 15

How to Set Meaningful Goals You'll Actually Accomplish 19

3 Food is Fuel: Addressing The Role of Nutrition in Your Workouts and Life 23

The Non-Diet Diet: Nine Nutrition Rules I Swear By to Make Healthy Eating Easy 23

Seeking Balance with the 80/20 Rule 27

Eating for Performance: Pre- and Post-Workout Nutrition 32

4 Building Superhuman Strength with Bodyweight Exercises 41

Lower-Body Exercises 42

Squats for a Strong Lower Body 43

Pistol Squats: The Ultimate Bodyweight Leg Exercise 45

Additional Lower-Body Strengthening Exercises 54

Upper-Body Exercises 61

Pull-Ups: Release Your Inner Badass 62

Push-Ups: The Most Underrated, Effective Upper-Body Exercise Ever 73

Dips for Triceps of Steel 83

Get Upside Down with Handstands 92

Beyond the Handstand: Handstand Push-Ups 102

Wrist Stretches and Strengtheners 108

Building a Rock-Solid Core 110

Hollow Body Holds for a Strong, Unbreakable Body 117

L-Sits for Core Strength 120

Leg Raises and Other Pull-Up Bar Core Exercises 122

Bridges for a Bulletproof Back 126

Additional Equipment-Free Core Exercises 135

Conditioning for Athletes of All Levels 140

Burpees: Why They Should Be Your Favorite Exercise 141

Plyometric Lower-Body Exercises 146

Plyometric Upper-Body Exercises 153

Jumping Rope to Whip You into Shape 157

Sprints for a Lean, Powerful Body 160

5 The Workouts 163

Your Eight-Week Plan to Get Fitter, Faster, and Stronger 167

Workout Types 175

Eight-Week Athlete Workout Plan 177

Eight-Week Super Athlete Workout Plan 195

Bonus: Tabata Workouts 213

Recipes 217

Acknowledgments 239

Index 241

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