#78 - What’s the one best HIIT move?

Hi, my name is Jorge Cruise, and I'm known as the 8-Minute Life Strategist to the world's busiest celebrities. I've been a fitness, nutrition, and peak performance trainer for over 20 years, and you may have seen my work with Oprah Winfrey, Khloe Kardashian, Tyra Banks, President Clinton, Kelly Clarkson, Dr. Oz, Tony Robbins, or even Steve Harvey. My career started because in my early 20s I had no no control of my life, and experts told me I was tired and overweight because I didn't exercise enough and overate. They were wrong. I discovered that there are fitness shortcuts that would give you control of your life in less time. My passion to find the best science-backed fitness shortcuts has allowed me to write over 30 books and become a multiple New York Times bestselling author with over 9 million books in print. And I know I can help you get control of your life. Welcome to the Jorge Cruise Show.

Well, welcome everyone. I'm Jorge and this is the Jorge Cruise Show. It is September 22nd. It is a beautiful Tuesday in San Diego, California. Tell me where you're watching from, guys. The show is at jorgecruiseshow.com. Uh, and if you are new to the show and you're like, what the heck's this show about? It's about really getting control over the most important thing, called your life, but through your health. Because for me, if you were to ask me, what is the number one thing that will transform your whole life so you can work better, play better, have fun, just enjoy? It's your health. I mean, as much as money is nice, relationships are great, all that kind of magnifies your life. But at the end of the day, you live in your body, and your body is your temple, as they say. And more importantly, it's how you interpret the world. So if you right now feel like it's a little out of control, your body, you've gained the, what everyone's calling the COVID-15, or for whatever reason you just have no energy, or maybe you had COVID and you just feel different now, whatever the situation is, I want you to know that this is the podcast and we're daily that really will give you tools that are shortcuts to really maximizing your health. And, and that's my passion. Today's no exception. Today we're talking about the number one HIIT movement. That you can do to maximize your health. Now HIIT, it's an acronym, stands for high-intensity interval training. And HIIT is probably, in my opinion, out of 25 years of being a trainer, 20 years of being a New York Times bestselling author, and I've written tons of books, over 30, I will tell you that HIIT is the way to work out. Doesn't matter whether you like yoga, walking, strength, whatever your move is or whatever it is you like, HIIT can be applied to all of it. And I'm going to give you an example today of a plank that my dear friend Sonja Morgan and client, you guys know her from the Real Housewives of New York City, uses. I posted some of the pictures that she and I did in New York last year on my social on @jorgecruise. You can check it out. But a plank is incredible because it literally tones everything, the front side of your body, the back side, arms, legs, butt, you name it, down to your shoulder, everything. So it does it all. And how does it work? Well, we're going to talk about it. I'm going to show you how to perform it. It's super simple. It's like doing a pushup but just holding it. And I'm going to tell you how to do it HIIT-based thought in mind so you can really maximize the benefits of HIIT. And HIIT, if you don't know what that is beyond the acronym, it's basically a way to, to turn on fat burning, belly fat burning. It's targeting belly fat. It also will improve mitochondria health, which are inside of your cells, which create energy. And if you're like me in midlife and want to extend life, it's about extending your lifespan too, and it helps with longevity. So HIIT is the bomb. We're going to talk about that in just a minute because we're brought to you by our sponsors. Now I'm I'm sponsoring the show partly because the first sponsor is 8minuteslive.com, and 8minuteslive.com is a site that just launched this month. We're actually offline right now to take more members because we're at capacity again, but I want to invite you to just check it out because if you go to 8minuteslive.com, it's the number 8, minutes with an S, live.com, you'll learn more about my method. And this method originally was created 20 years ago when I wrote my first book called 8 Minutes in the Morning. It was a strength training, routine. Now it's a HIIT strength training routine which also incorporates walking and yoga, and it's super important. And something I'm adding to the site for October is hydration and nutrition, because I'll tell you, the other trick to it all is intermittent fasting to good health. And we talk a lot about that on the show here. I'm really fortunate to be best friends with Jason Fung. Dr. Fung is the world's leading premier doctor on intermittent fasting. He's been on the show a ton. And I'll tell you, um, it's important to know how to do that. And so this is the place place I do it all at. It's called 8minuteslive.com.

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Easy.

Now, if you have palms that hurt and your, your, your, your body is tight, you can simply drop to your, to your elbows and clasp your hands. And hold it that way. Super simple. You can see this on Instagram if you wanna watch it. Um, simple 40 seconds. You get your, your watch out, you get your phone out, time 40 seconds, hold. Then for 40 seconds, remain in that same position, but now bring your knee to your elbow. Whether you're doing the modified version or the full version, do that for 40 seconds, alternating knees to elbows. Does that make sense? You're gonna now raise your heart rate. When you raise your heart rate, that's part of HIIT. That's what HIIT is. It's high-intensity interval training. Do that for 40 seconds. So watch the, the timer on your, on your phone or your, your watch, whatever it is you're using. I do it on my Apple Watch. And then lower it for 40 seconds and hold it again statically. Don't move. Don't be dynamic.

Just hold.

Whether it's on your elbows or, you know, on your palms, hold it. All right, make sure the backs of your elbows are pointing back and the eye of the elbow, which is the opposite side of your elbow, is pointing forward. It's that simple. Now the affirmation, here it is. Are you ready? This is it. Super, super simple. It says, I do a plank for 2 minutes. That's your positive thought right now. Let's do it 3 times. Stand tall, take a deep breath, look in the mirror if you can, and say this to yourself right now: I do a plank for 2 minutes. Again, I do a plank for 2 minutes. Again, I do a plank for 2 minutes. And you can do it if you do it the way I just described. 40 seconds hold, 40 seconds dynamically bringing in the knees, and 40 seconds hold again.

That's 2 minutes.

It's that simple. And if this is something you're really interested in, again, check out 8minuteslive.com because it's a part of the training I do there. Please share this show, this concept of planks with your loved ones today. All right, I'll be back tomorrow. Peace and purpose. Take good care. Hey, it's Jorge.

If you have one more minute, I wanted to address something that I think is super important, and that is if you need help with anything from the show, uh, if you need help about losing belly fat, if you want help about intermittent fasting, if you want help about exercise, interval training, anything at all, I want you to join my Fit Family on text. It's a brand new service I've just launched. And if you really do need help, I want you to text me right now. It really is that simple. You'll be part of my texting family. I have a group of people that I work with via text and it's all for free. So I'd love you to join. All you have to do is text my Malibu number. It's a 424 area code number. So I'm gonna give it to you right now. Jot this down, or while you're listening, text me right now.

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So kind of a fun thing. Again, the number, text me, literally do it right now, area code 424.

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And I look forward to having you join my Fit Family. Take good care and God bless. Peace and purpose.