Denise Austin, 66, says she’s been doing 30-minute workouts for 40 years: ‘If you rest, you’ll rust’
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Denise Austin is a fitness icon who has long-advocated 30-minute workouts to get in shape. She has sold more than 24 million exercise videos and DVDs.
Austin told Fox News Digital that being a busy mom of two daughters inspired her over the years to come up with half-hour routines that can be done without heading to a gym. Most recently, the star went viral after modeling the same pink swimsuit she wore in the ‘90s. Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.
"That’s right – I have been doing 30-minute workouts for 40 years," she said. "I truly believe that in 30 minutes you can get in everything. So some days of the week, I do 30 minutes worth of cardio to burn fat, to work on [my heart] – it is a muscle. And then on the other three days, I do 30-minutes of toning and stretching to keep [my] abs strong… to keep the body strong, toned and firmed up."
"We have found through research [that] shows 30 minutes most days of the week is a great amount of time to get a great workout," she shared. "It could be 30 minutes of outdoor walking… So there’s no excuse. When the kids were little, I used to wake up before [they] got up. Before I cooked them breakfast and sent them off to school, I’d get it done… Sometimes I’d get it done in the morning or, throughout the day I’d do 10 minutes. You could do three 10-minute workouts. You could [do] an accumulation of 30 minutes in a day and that’s great too."