Start Monday strong — 7-minute lower body morning activation to fire up your legs for the day! Quick, no-equipment bodyweight session with jump squats and key lower body moves. Do 2 rounds if you\'ve got the energy, then treat yourself to breakfast.
Be sure to get a full squat in with each jump. Nice and low, nice and high!
About this workout
Monday Morning Lower Body Fat Burn Workout is a free 7 min workout plan with 12 illustrated exercises for your glutes and legs. Follow the workout online, save it to your WorkoutLabs Fit account or download it as a printable PDF.
Tap any exercise in the workout to see the muscles worked, clear exercise illustrations and step-by-step instructions. Each workout includes sets, reps, rest times and notes so you can follow the plan without guessing.
No equipment is needed – every exercise in this workout uses your own bodyweight, so you can do it at home or anywhere.
How long does the Monday Morning Lower Body Fat Burn Workout take?
The full workout takes about 7 minutes, covering 12 exercises with prescribed sets, reps and rest periods. Using the built-in timers and auto-advance keeps you on pace from start to finish.
Is this workout suitable for my fitness level?
This is an intermediate workout, best suited to people with some training experience. Beginners can still follow it by reducing the weight, doing fewer sets or resting longer between sets – each exercise includes illustrated form instructions.
What muscles does this workout target?
This routine primarily works your hamstrings, quadriceps, glutes & hip flexors. Tap any exercise in the workout to see a muscle diagram showing exactly which primary and secondary muscles it activates.
How often should I do this workout?
For get toned, lose fat, aim to do this workout 2–3 times per week with at least one rest day between sessions. Progress by gradually adding weight or reps, and pair it with workouts for other muscle groups during the week.
Can I download or save this workout?
Yes – you can download this workout as a free printable PDF using the download button, or save it to a free WorkoutLabs Fit account to follow it on your phone, customize the exercises and track your progress.
Start Monday strong — 7-minute lower body morning activation to fire up your legs for the day! Quick, no-equipment bodyweight session with jump squats and key lower body moves. Do 2 rounds if you\'ve got the energy, then treat yourself to breakfast.
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Standing tall with a tight core and flat back, you will begin the dynamic stretching exercise as if you were running in place. Keep the knees slightly bent at all times.Start slowly and work up to a faster speed.
Bring your left foot back and all the way up to the glutes. Return your left foot to the ground and repeat on the other side.
Continue this back and forth motion, keeping your arms swinging in motion.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Begin jogging in place, lifting the knees as high as you can.
Try to lift your knees up to hip level but keep the core tight to support your back.
For a more advanced move, hold your hands straight at hip level and try to touch the knees to your hands as you lift them.
Bring the knees towards your hands instead of reaching the hands to the knees!
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings, Shoulders
Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.
This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.
Stand with your feet hip width apart. Your toes should be pointing straight ahead or only slightly outward.
Cross your arms in front of your body, place your hands behind your head or at the sides of your head.
Keep your weight on your heels and bend your knees while lowering your hips towards the ground as if you are sitting down on a chair.
Keep your back straight at all times.
Continue until you feel a slight stretch in your quadriceps. Do not let your knees extend out beyond the level of your toes.
Pause for a count of one.
In an explosive movement, drive down through your heels pushing yourself up of the floor with your quads.
At the same time extend our arms out above you.
Land with your knees slightly bent to absorb the impact.
Repeat
Primary muscle group(s):
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Begin standing tall with a tight core. Your chest will be up and your gaze will be straight ahead. Bend at the knees and drive your hips back as you lower yourself into a squat position.
Launch yourself up while simultaneously twisting to the other side. Your body will perform a 180 degree turn in midair.
Land with bent knees and immediately go right into another jump squat, turning to the starting position. Repeat this alternating pattern.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Stand with your feet together, arms fully extended with your hands by your sides. This is the start position.
Bend your knees slightly then straighten and push through the balls of your feet while straightening your your knees to jump up spreading your legs to wider than hip width apart.
As you do so, raise both arms out and up in a smooth arc until your hands meet above your head.
As you return to the ground, bring your feet together and your hands back to your sides with your arms fully extended.
Continue without pause for the desired amount of time or repetitions.
This exercise can be performed as a timed exercise, completing as many reps as possible in a set time or, in sets with a fixed number of repetitions per set. To increase intensity, bend your arms slightly as you raise them to engage your biceps and triceps and squeezing them during each rep.
Stand with your feet hip width apart. Your toes should be pointing straight ahead or only slightly outward.
Cross your arms in front of your body, place your hands behind your head or at the sides of your head.
Keep your weight on your heels and bend your knees while lowering your hips towards the ground as if you are sitting down on a chair.
Keep your back straight at all times.
Continue until you feel a slight stretch in your quadriceps. Do not let your knees extend out beyond the level of your toes.
Pause for a count of one.
In an explosive movement, drive down through your heels pushing yourself up of the floor with your quads.
At the same time extend our arms out above you.
Land with your knees slightly bent to absorb the impact.
Repeat
Primary muscle group(s):
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Begin standing tall with a tight core. Your chest will be up and your gaze will be straight ahead. Bend at the knees and drive your hips back as you lower yourself into a squat position.
Launch yourself up while simultaneously twisting to the other side. Your body will perform a 180 degree turn in midair.
Land with bent knees and immediately go right into another jump squat, turning to the starting position. Repeat this alternating pattern.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Standing with a braced core and flat back, bring your hands together at chest height. Position your feet to be at hip-width.
Beginning with the right foot, step backward and across your left foot. Simultaneously, bend the left knee and drop it towards the ground.
Stop when the front right knee is parallel with the ground. Push off the ground with your right foot and return to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Stand straight – that’s the starting position. Step forward with your left leg and slowly lower your body until your front knee is bent at least 90 degrees, while your rear knee is just off the floor. Keep your torso upright the entire time. Look forward.
Pause, then push off your left foot off the floor and return to the starting position as quickly as you can.
On your next rep, step forward with your right leg. Continue to alternate back and forth—doing one rep with your left, then one rep with your right.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves
Stand tall with a tight core and make sure your feet are shoulder-width apart. Bring your hands together for balance.
Step directly to the left, leaving your right foot in place. Bend the left knee and pause once the upper left thigh is parallel to the ground. Your right leg should be completely straight.
Contract the hamstring muscle then push off the ground to return to the starting position. Repeat on the right side. Alternate this movement.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Stand with your feet hip width apart. Your toes should be pointing straight ahead or only slightly outward.
Cross your arms in front of your body, place your hands behind your head or at the sides of your head.
Keep your weight on your heels and bend your knees while lowering your hips towards the ground as if you are sitting down on a chair.
Keep your back straight at all times.
Continue until you feel a slight stretch in your quadriceps. Do not let your knees extend out beyond the level of your toes.
Pause for a count of one.
In an explosive movement, drive down through your heels pushing yourself up of the floor with your quads.
At the same time extend our arms out above you.
Land with your knees slightly bent to absorb the impact.
Repeat
Primary muscle group(s):
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Begin standing tall with a tight core. Your chest will be up and your gaze will be straight ahead. Bend at the knees and drive your hips back as you lower yourself into a squat position.
Launch yourself up while simultaneously twisting to the other side. Your body will perform a 180 degree turn in midair.
Land with bent knees and immediately go right into another jump squat, turning to the starting position. Repeat this alternating pattern.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Position your hands underneath your shoulders and place your knees under your hips.
Keep your right knee bent at 90 degrees and flex the foot as you lift the knee until it is level with the hip.
Lower the knee without touching the floor and repeat the lift.
Once you’ve completed the reps on the right leg, switch legs.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs, Lower Back
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Position yourself on all fours with knees underneath the hips and wrists under the shoulders.
Engage your abs and keep your spine neutral, pulling the shoulder blades towards the hips.
Lengthen the left leg until it is straight out and in line with your hips while simultaneously raising and straightening your right arm until it is parallel to the floor. Keep your head and shoulders aligned at all times.
Gently lower your arm and leg back to the starting position and alternate with the other arm and leg.
Primary muscle group(s):
Abs
Secondary:
Glutes & Hip Flexors
Lie face down on a flat bench with your hips on the edge of the bench. Fully extend your legs and raise your feet up from the floor so that they are in line with your body .
Place your arms on top of the bench, using them to hold on to the front edge of the bench for stability.
Squeeze your glutes and hamstrings and straighten your legs until they are level with your hips. This is the start position.
Start the exercise by raising you left leg higher than your right leg.
Then lower the left leg as you lift the right leg and so on.
Alternate in this manner until you have done all repetitions for each leg.
When performing this exercise, breathe normally. As your strength increases, you can add ankle weights.
Stand with your feet hip width apart. Your toes should be pointing straight ahead or only slightly outward.
Cross your arms in front of your body, place your hands behind your head or at the sides of your head.
Keep your weight on your heels and bend your knees while lowering your hips towards the ground as if you are sitting down on a chair.
Keep your back straight at all times.
Continue until you feel a slight stretch in your quadriceps. Do not let your knees extend out beyond the level of your toes.
Pause for a count of one.
In an explosive movement, drive down through your heels pushing yourself up of the floor with your quads.
At the same time extend our arms out above you.
Land with your knees slightly bent to absorb the impact.
Repeat
Primary muscle group(s):
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Begin standing tall with a tight core. Your chest will be up and your gaze will be straight ahead. Bend at the knees and drive your hips back as you lower yourself into a squat position.
Launch yourself up while simultaneously twisting to the other side. Your body will perform a 180 degree turn in midair.
Land with bent knees and immediately go right into another jump squat, turning to the starting position. Repeat this alternating pattern.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Keeping your back upright, take one step forward (around 1.5x a normal forward step).
Lower your body into the lunge until the forward leg reaches a 90-degree angle bend.
As you lunge, strike forward with your opposite hand to a punch. Your back knee should only just hover from the floor.
Push upwards through the front leg and drive your body back to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Stand straight – that’s the starting position. Step forward with your left leg and slowly lower your body until your front knee is bent at least 90 degrees, while your rear knee is just off the floor. Keep your torso upright the entire time. Look forward.
Pause, then push off your left foot off the floor and return to the starting position as quickly as you can.
On your next rep, step forward with your right leg. Continue to alternate back and forth—doing one rep with your left, then one rep with your right.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Obliques, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Calves, Hamstrings
Stand upright with a tight core and flat back. Extend arms to chest level in front of you while holding the weight.
Step forward with one leg. Front thigh should be parallel with the floor. Drop the back knee.
Rotate the torso towards the leg that stepped out while keeping arms extended. Push back up to the starting position.
This exercise can be performed with a dumbbell or a plate weight.
Stand with your feet hip width apart. Your toes should be pointing straight ahead or only slightly outward.
Cross your arms in front of your body, place your hands behind your head or at the sides of your head.
Keep your weight on your heels and bend your knees while lowering your hips towards the ground as if you are sitting down on a chair.
Keep your back straight at all times.
Continue until you feel a slight stretch in your quadriceps. Do not let your knees extend out beyond the level of your toes.
Pause for a count of one.
In an explosive movement, drive down through your heels pushing yourself up of the floor with your quads.
At the same time extend our arms out above you.
Land with your knees slightly bent to absorb the impact.
Repeat
Primary muscle group(s):
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Begin standing tall with a tight core. Your chest will be up and your gaze will be straight ahead. Bend at the knees and drive your hips back as you lower yourself into a squat position.
Launch yourself up while simultaneously twisting to the other side. Your body will perform a 180 degree turn in midair.
Land with bent knees and immediately go right into another jump squat, turning to the starting position. Repeat this alternating pattern.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Stand with your feet in a wide stance, with your toes slightly pointed outwards – like a sumo wrestler. Hold your hands together in front of your chest.
Keeping your back straight, lower your body towards the ground by bending your knees.
Bring your left leg in one step so that it lands next to your right leg.
Take one step with your right leg away from your left leg so that you are now back to the starting position.
Repeat the complete movement in reverse to complete one rep.
Primary muscle group(s):
Glutes & Hip Flexors, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Hamstrings
Stand with your feet slightly wider than shoulder width apart. Bend your knees and bring yourself down into a squat until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
Keep your chest up, your eyes focused straight ahead, and your core engaged.
Take mini, duck-like steps forwards and backwards for the designated number of reps.
Quack quack.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Primary muscle group(s):
Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Calves, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Standing with a braced core and flat back, bring your hands together at chest height. Position your feet to be at hip-width.
Beginning with the right foot, step backward and across your left foot. Simultaneously, bend the left knee and drop it towards the ground.
Stop when the front right knee is parallel with the ground. Push off the ground with your right foot and return to the starting position.
Stand with your feet hip width apart. Your toes should be pointing straight ahead or only slightly outward.
Cross your arms in front of your body, place your hands behind your head or at the sides of your head.
Keep your weight on your heels and bend your knees while lowering your hips towards the ground as if you are sitting down on a chair.
Keep your back straight at all times.
Continue until you feel a slight stretch in your quadriceps. Do not let your knees extend out beyond the level of your toes.
Pause for a count of one.
In an explosive movement, drive down through your heels pushing yourself up of the floor with your quads.
At the same time extend our arms out above you.
Land with your knees slightly bent to absorb the impact.
Repeat
Primary muscle group(s):
Calves, Hamstrings, Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Glutes & Hip Flexors
Begin standing tall with a tight core. Your chest will be up and your gaze will be straight ahead. Bend at the knees and drive your hips back as you lower yourself into a squat position.
Launch yourself up while simultaneously twisting to the other side. Your body will perform a 180 degree turn in midair.
Land with bent knees and immediately go right into another jump squat, turning to the starting position. Repeat this alternating pattern.
Primary muscle group(s):
Quadriceps
Secondary:
Abs, Hamstrings
Place your feet at shoulder width apart while keeping your chest up and your abdominals braced.
Begin the movement by swinging your arms up towards your shoulders. At the same time, bend at the knees and drive your hips back like you’re sitting in a chair.
Once your upper thighs are parallel with the ground, pause, then drive your hips forward to return to the starting position.
Workout done!
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