Time Crunch / Best workout?

[WindingRoad]

My days are so incredibly full of stuff to do. I hardly have more than 20-30 minutes I can spend at the gym running on the treadmill, on the eliptical, weight training or on my trainer at home. I was wondering if anyone had suggestions to a good type of workout when you don't have much time? I like yoga and pilates too but have to be extremely careful about putting pressure on my neck due to crazy migraine issues lately.

[marni]

womens health daily recently had some short sharp workouts that were mostly based on your own body weight and minimal equipment that were about half an hour long. Some of them looked very interesting. They had one which was 5 exercise (of which I can only remember squats, pushups and jump lunges.

check out their web site.

marni

[jyyanks]

I am not the type of person that can do an exercise routine on my own, I need someone/something to follow. Therefore I actually have done the Jillian Michael's DVD's when I'm pressed for time. The one I have has 20-30 minute workouts. I haven't done them in a while since I now try to bike for 30 minutes every day, but I remember they were very effective.

[Reesha]

HIIT. I have done hill sprints in the past for 20 minutes (but I happen to live on a fantastic hill for this). For me that just really means running up the hill at a normal flatland pace and then cooling off with a walk down to the bottom, then up I go again.

[Crankin]

Intervals of any kind. Hill walking, running/walking/or intervals on the bike. Even if I do just 20-30 minutes, those things will maintain my weight/fitness.

[Susan]

You can get a really good workout in 30 minutes by doing some sort of interval training.
I like the Bodyrock/Zuzana workouts on youtube - they are free, easy to follow and quite hard. (For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZ5Voqp7Ys)

You could also do weight training if you already have a gym membership. I like the exercise instructions and workout ideas on stumptuous.com (http://www.stumptuous.com/category/t.../workout_ideas).