How many of you have ever walked into your local gym, with all intentions of making a change and improving your health and fitness? It's safe to say that the majority of us at one time or another will take out a gym membership. Whether or not we actually use it is another story.

The problem is that there are so many reasons (otherwise called EXCUSES)for us NOT to exercise, we justify our way out of doing it before ever stepping foot into that gym.

The most popular excuses (yes they are excuses and not reasons) for people choosing not to exercise are price and time.
While there is probably not a lot you can do about the cost of joining a gym, you can always opt to do what you can from your own home. Or you could enlist the services of a personal trainer for one or two sessions to get you on a program and give you some knowledge of exercises, and take it from there yourself.
Time however is something you can work with.

The key is to make your workouts as effective and time efficient as possible. You want to get the best results in the least time right?
What is I told you it is possible to get a great workout that will give you results, and all you have to do is put aside 30 minutes to do it?

Exercise is not brain surgery. It is simple. It doesn't have to mean 16 different exercises and 2 hours at the gym. All you need to remember is this:
PUSH, PULL, LEGS.
Without going into the anatomical and physiological (boring) side of things in great detail; if you can implement a push exercise, a pull exercise and an exercise for your legs into a workout, essentially that is all you need to make a visible difference to your body. You will work every muscle group and it wont take more than 30 minutes out of your day.

Push exercises are exactly that, exercises in which you are using your upper body to perform a pushing action. This includes push ups, the bench press, machine chest press, dumbbell chest press and other similar movements.
Each of these exercises incorporate the muscles in your chest and shoulders, as well as your biceps and triceps.

Pull exercises work the muscles opposite to those used in push exercises. Seated row, Lat pulldowns, chin-ups (or pull ups), bent over rows, and dumbbell rows are all examples of pull exercises. These are the exercises that target the muscles of your back (your lats, rhomboids etc)and also your shoulders and arms to some extent.

For legs the options are endless, but the best exercises in terms of increasing

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