Everything You Need to Know About Our 15-Minute Weight-Loss Workouts

We live in an age of hacks, short cuts and promises of instant results. Nowhere is that more evident than in the fitness-crazed month that marks the beginning of a new year and the hope of a fresh start.

Crowds of people duly throw themselves headfirst into a workout programme to burn off the flab that has been slowly accruing over the previous 12 months. That plan is almost invariably beyond them – too hard physically, too tough mentally and, after no more than a couple of weeks, too much of a scheduling commitment. In most cases, the game is up before February.

If that sounds uncomfortably familiar, we're here with a bold new approach. With the January/February issue of Men's Health UK, you'll also receive a booklet of 31 workouts, all of which can all be completed in 15 minutes – a quarter of what most people would consider "a good session". The aim of this guide is not to circumvent hard work. In fact, you may work harder, cull more calories and shift more timber than ever before. (Continued below)

Burn Fat In Your Own Front Room

For those crunched for time, equipment or even access to a gym, these bodyweight sessions can be completed at home, in hotel rooms or anywhere you want to turbocharge your metabolism.

Crush Flab With Dumbbells

Armed with only the most basic piece of exercise equipment, this is how to send your calorie burn sky-rocketing and add functional muscle in the process. Your belly's resistance is futile.

Hardcore Metcons

With the range of kit available in an average gym, you can go hard. But that doesn't mean going long. Our intense 15-minute circuits will make elite conditioning a plausible part of your daily routine.

Build Your Own Plan

Each session in the guide is categorised: total body, upper, lower, push, pull. Follow the table in the guide according to how much time you have to train and you can assemble a sequence that allows for maximum work and adequate recovery.

By removing the demand on that most stretched of commodities – time – you are left with a realistic resource for daily output. Each workout is designed for readily available equipment, from bodyweight sessions you can do anywhere to simple gym-based workouts and dumbbell combinations for a lunch-break fix. All you need is 15 minutes and the will to use each minute to the fullest.

To put our metabolic money where our mouths are, we will be posting a video of each of these workouts for every one of the 31 days of January on our Instagram: @menshealthuk. Sweat along with us each day, or choose your own fat-burning adventure by constructing your personal plan. Alternatively, just dip in whenever you need a fast session, or find yourself limited in space, equipment or inspiration. Whatever your why, we have the way.

Here's what we've published so far:

You'll find the 15-Minute Weight-Loss Workout book in the new January/February 2020 issue of Men's Health UK, out now.

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Edward Cooper Ed Cooper is the Deputy Digital Editor at Men's Health UK, writing and editing about anything you want to know about — from tech to fitness, mental health to style, food and so much more.