ecessity is the mother of invention. That’s how trainer Kara Liotta reignited her love of slider workouts. “During the pandemic, I needed a different way to work out using what I had at home. I didn’t have bands and balls and heavy weights, but I had a piece of paper,” she says. Liotta went on to lead hundreds of strength and HIIT workouts with only a piece of paper or the occasional paper plate. If you’re questioning how flimsy sheets can power a sweat sesh, let’s back up a sec. Papers serve as sliders (or gliders, depending on who you’re talking to), which are, at their simplest, unstable surfaces that allow your feet or hands to glide along the floor with
