Ready to hit the beach? You can get toned and honed for your bikini in double-quick time with Tesco Diets' Joyce Vedral

You could be burning five times the fat in half the workout time. With this well-kept secret, you can do an almost 100 per cent aerobic workout, burning maximum fat off your hip, bum, thigh and stomach areas, and at the same time you will tighten, tone and define these bikini body parts.

First, do a combination to target your trouble spots without taking a rest. For example, you could do one exercise for your thighs, and then, without resting, move on to an exercise for your hip/bum area, and then, without resting, follow with yet another exercise for your stomach.

Now you've done three exercises without resting and without exhaustion. Why? While one body part is working, the others are resting, but your metabolism continues to burn fat, saving time in the process.

You also can, and should, move on to additional exercises for a total-body, fat-zapping summer workout, but to get you started, here's an example of three exercises for the thigh, hip/bum and stomach areas.

Standing front thigh extension

Position: Stand next to a chair you can hold on to for balance.
Movement: Holding onto the chair with your left hand, raise your right knee until your thigh is parallel to the floor. Flexing your thigh muscle as hard as you can, extend your leg out as far as it will go. Return to start and repeat the movement 15 times. Repeat for your other leg. Without resting, move on to the next exercise.

Lying bum lift

Position: Lie down with the soles of your feet and your back flat on the floor.
Movement: Raise your hip/bum area about five inches off the floor, flexing this area as hard as possible. Return to start and repeat 15 times. Without resting, move on to the next exercise.

Abdominal ceiling reach

Position: Stay flat on your back. Lift your legs up and together, nearly perpendicular to the floor and extend your arms toward the ceiling with palms facing your knees.
Movement: Flexing your abdominal muscles as you go, raise your upper body until your shoulders are off the ground. Return to start position and repeat 15 times.

Ideally, you should do more combinations for these body parts, and add in the rest of your body.