The month of July is one known largely for the documentation and celebration of the United States’ independence from British rule. Now, it’s got a new meaning, your turn for independence from that nagging fat showing up in troubling areas. You’ve seen the fireworks take flight into the dark, beautiful sky, and now you’re going to see the explosion of a new and exciting body with this firecracker of a workout.
This circuit will get your heart rate shooting up quicker than a rocket and have your body thanking you for all the new possibilities coming forth to it. Here’s the kicker: This whole circuit only requires some towels and a little creativity. Time to upload an interval training app on your phone and maybe even download John Phillip Sousa’s Stars and Stripes Forever for motivation. But enough of that, time to put the countdown on 15 seconds of work and 75 seconds of rest (1 minute, 15 seconds) and get ready to eight rounds of each exercise. Let’s get started.
Exercise #1: Face Towel Drummers:
Start by standing in an athletic stance, feet shoulder distance apart with knees slightly bent. Arms at side bent into L-shaped position. With two face/hand towels, one in each hand, start pretending you are drumming. Progress slowly to get a steady rhythm and then increase your pace. Take a look below for your setup and get those arms pumping. Hint: go as fast as you can while keeping your body sturdy. This will give you a great ab workout as well.

Exercise #2: Bath/Beach Towel Power Slams
All right, this one can be a little tricky with the multiple steps, but hey, you can do it! Find your nearest beach towel or bath towel. Again, get into that athletic stance. Remember the one with knees slightly bent. Then, with hands holding two ends of the towel, pull the towel up high overhead. While you’re doing the above upper body action, your lower body is going to go high up onto the tiptoes. Take a quick look at the accompanying picture for a good description. As you come down powerfully with the arms, towel in hand, you will squat down and slam the towel into the ground aggressively. Do this quickly for the prescribed time and watch as that heart races and the legs get a nice, good workout. Want to make it more challenging? Then just hold two separate beach/bath towels, one in each hand, and do the above described exercise.

Exercise #3: Runners’ Lunges With a Towel
Caveat here before we get started: You are going to need a tile, laminate, or wood-based floor to do this exercise. You’ll need a little slip and slide going on with your feet. Okay, now that we have that solved, put the towel on the floor. Get into a lunge position and put your back foot on the towel. Here, you can use any towel, beach/face/bath, you decide. With a sturdy and stable semi-bent front leg, slide the back foot to a comfortable distance away from the front foot. Slide the back leg back until the front leg goes to 90 degrees and pull the leg back to the starting position. I know, I know, have a look at the pics for a little better description of start and finish. Do one leg for above-mentioned work period and then switch legs and do for the other round. Keep switching up legs each round until eight rounds are down. Reminder: Do at a quick pace, but don’t sacrifice form for the speed. It will come eventually.

Before beginning this workout, may I wish you a big “May the 4th Be With You” as it’s not going to be an easy one. Good luck on burning not just the wick of the fireworks but some serious fat. Until the next workout!