This Valentine's Day, Celebrate Love with a Twist of Fitness
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Valentine's Day 2024 is here, and we bring you some of the best couple ideas that can help build strong bonds with your partner. Follow Valentine's Day couple home workouts and celebrate the day with a twist of Fitness.
Love is in the air, and so is your passion for Fitness. Valentine's day often depicts the idea of romantic dinners, roses, and chocolates. Two people celebrate Valentine's Day by falling in love with each other and cherishing the feeling through romantic gestures.
However, we plan to reframe the narrative to include Fitness in this special day for not just lovers but fitsters too – individuals who love to follow Fitness on their terms. Let's explore the intersection of love and Fitness this Valentine's Day and how prioritizing your Fitness can enhance modern-day relationships.
Quantity vs Quality Time
Finding quality time with your partner can be challenging in this fast-paced world. Even if we count the times spent together, that may not complement the quality each time. We must figure out a middle way where spending time together can also help boost our health.
Incorporating Fitness into your relationship allows you to kill two birds with one stone. You get to spend quality time together while working on your Fitness—plan outings involving physical activities like hiking, bike rides, or taking a dance class together.
Sweat Together, Stay Together
In line with specific findings, couples who work together improve their physical health and solidify their emotional bond. Sharing a workout routine can foster good teamwork, communication, and mutual support. Couples can deepen and strengthen their connection through shared exercises and visiting the same fitness center together.
To find a fitness center near you and your partner, download the FITPASS App and choose from 7500+ gyms & fitness centers across India with 2,25,000+ trending workout sessions.
Couple Home Workouts
A movie night at home and cooking dinner together is a good idea, but you know what's even better a couple of home workouts. Setting a couple of goals in the realm of Fitness is also something to explore if you want to spice up your relationship.
Take some time from your busy life and seek a proper workout routine from home. To make it more fun, you can get similar workout clothes and yoga mats crafted, especially for couples, with similar designs, which can also take your home workout up a notch.
And what better than an A.I. curating a workout for you? With FITCOACH, you can get your intelligent A.I. revolutionary fitness coach to customize a workout circuit based on your fitness levels. You can easily plan your fitness goals and access workouts before your screen. Download the FITPASS app and get FITCOACH today.
Setting Goals Together
Achieving fitness goals requires dedication, commitment, and perseverance; these qualities are equally essential for a relationship to grow. Nothing is better than sharing and acting upon your goals with your partner.
Setting fitness goals as a couple allows you to support each other, celebrate milestones together, and grow stronger as a team. Make plans to work right after work, plan weekend walks, or plan a lunch with a healthy meal plan.
Not just that, when you accomplish your one milestone, you can reward each other with cheat meals. After all, Fitness and Valentine's are also about fulfilling your guilty pleasures.
A Healthy Relationship with Food
Every plan is complete with food. Nutrition is the prime thought to deliver if it comes to staying fit, and couples can follow a good nutrition plan so that their goals remain within reach. Your Valentine's menu can complement your fitness routine with some of the healthiest recipes.
Planning to go on a diet together can empower your motivation to stick to a diet plan delivered to you by your nutritionist. Set similar diet goals so one may feel equal to the other. Even if your goals remain different, your diet plan can remain personalized and specific to each other.
For a personalized meal plan for you and your partner, contact your nutritionist on FITFEAST. Explain to them your goals and get a customized diet plan that you can follow together.
5 Best Workout Ideas for Couples at Home
We're here with exciting workout ideas to try with your partner and spend quality time working out and getting fit together at home.
Jumping Jacks
What can be better than good old jumping jacks, a perfect start to your couple's home workout routine? Face each other and start with the exercise. You can also play your favorite music to pump up your session.
How to do Jumping Jacks:
- Stand straight, facing each other.
- Keep your feet broad.
- Put your hands straight above your head.
- Jump along to the tempo of the music.
- With every hop, pull your feet closer to each other, hands down & vice versa.
Burpee Bonding
Bond as you burp(ee) together. Burpees are the best way to sweat in sync with each other. Each time you perform one burpee rep, appreciate each other with a clap.
How to do burpees:
- Come in a high plank position.
- Jump to your feet & stand straight.
- Jump back to the high plank position & perform one push-up.
- Perform at least ten reps.
Split Squat with rotation & Ball Pass
Squat through the inactivity and perform split squats with your partner but with a twist. Hold a ball and pass it to your partner with oblique rotation.
How to do split squats:
- Split your legs, keeping one foot in the front & the other one at the back.
- Hold the ball in front of you.
- Begin the downward movement by bending your knees.
- Return by rotating your obliques and passing the ball to your partner.
Push-up High Five
Add a pinch of Valentine's tradition into the traditional push-up movement. Push-ups help strengthen your core muscles, and this particular movement can help build coordination with your partner.
How to do push-ups and five:
- Come in a high plank position.
- Face each other while holding the plank position.
- Bend your elbows and pull your body towards the ground.
- Come back up and give a high five to your better half in front of you.
Crunch Ball Pass
Crunch up your couple's home workout routine with crunches. Lead your love towards healthy coordination by maintaining the passing-the-ball regime.
How to do crunch ball pass:
- Lie down on a yoga mat or a soft surface.
- Bend your knees and place your feet flat on the ground.
- Hold a ball up above your head.
- Crunch your core and pull yourself upwards.
- Pass the ball to your partner in the front & vice versa.
We hope these Valentine's Day couple home workouts can redefine what it means to celebrate love. It's equally essential to cherish Fitness with your partner to strengthen oneself from within and develop more intimate interpersonal relationships. Whether working out at the gym or motivating each other through their solo fitness journey, let's make love and fitness the modern-day power couple.