Are you a shopaholic like me? Then this is for you :-) Innovative way to weight loss...

Lift, lunge, crunch, squat, kerching: The ultimate shopaholic workout 

Shop until you no longer drop

•    Warm-up treadmill: 8-10mins - gradually increasing the intensity each minute

•    Stepper: 1min faster pace / 1min slower pace stepping - 10mins total

•    Alternate Lunges: hold a set of dumbbells to make this more difficult - hit 20 reps of good fast lunges with excellent form, rest for 10 seconds repeat for to complete 3 sets

•    Plank hold position: aim for 1 min rest for 10 seconds and repeat

•    Squat: hold a barbell over your shoulders to make more difficult - Aim for a slower controlled movement 3 sets of 12 reps

•    Russian twists: 30 seconds of controlled twisting in a leant back seated position

•    Kettlebell Sumo squat: slow controlled movement - 3 sets of 12 reps

•    Swissball crunches: 3 sets of 12 reps

•    Cool down Cross trainer: 8-10mins

Everyone has their own way of staying in high spirits and bountiful energy while doing that most exhausting of activities: shopping.
But perhaps what you really need to be doing is long-term training on the specific muscles you use while lugging bags and boxes up and down the high-street and repeatedly lifting dresses up and over your head. And now you can.

A London gym has created a retail-inspired work-out for the shopaholic in us all, a 30-minute routine packed with lunges, planks, squats and Russian twists, each promising to tighten and strengthen your 'shopping muscles'.

The shopping work-out begins with a 10-minute warm-up walk on the treadmill - the equivalent of waking to the bus stop. The speed then cranks up for 10 minutes on the stepper (imagine you're running up the escalators to beat the sales rush).
You then launch into three sets of 20 lunges while holding a set of dumbbells: just imagine picking dropped T-shirts off the floor while holding a screaming child over your shoulders.

Drop into the plank and hold yourself there for one minute, recreating the scene in which you're lying on the changing room floor struggling to squeeze yourself into a pair of skinny jeans.

Now it's time for squats. Hold a barbell over your shoulders to make more difficult and drop into 12 repetitions, for three sets. Envisage yourself reaching for shoes on the low shelf. Lots of times.
Then throw yourself into 30 seconds of Russian twists - the same movement you do while pulling on jeggings - followed by three sets of 12 kettlebell Sumo squats, to strengthen your bag-carrying arm muscles.

At last it's time for a round of Swissball crunches to strengthen your running-for-the-bus core, and then a 10-minute cool down on the cross-trainer, the equivalent of the long, awkward trudge home with your shopping bags.

No pain, no gain :-)