There are lots of things you can do to exercise at home. There are the obvious types of home exercises such as the workout DVD or you could try out a home gym although – a word of advice – these can be expensive! But if you want to workout or exercise at home they aren’t you’re only options.
You don’t need a great deal of expensive equipment to get in shape, your stairs are great for cardio and toning your legs, you armchair is an ideal piece of equipment for performing tricep dips and even housework can provide you with an overall workout.
If you are new to exercise and want to start exercising at home the best piece of advice we can give you is get yourself a workout DVD. Exercise DVDs or workout DVDs will give you a well-structured easy to follow exercise routine and most workouts are progressive which means you’re not going to be stuck doing the same thing all the time, the exercises will get more difficult to perform and make you work harder so you really start to see results.
If you want to try exercising at home first of all without having to purchase any workout DVDs there are exercise channels available on TV, try channel 282 on Sky.
Exercising at home can be a really cost effective way of working out and you don’t really need a great deal of equipment either. Every exercise routine should be made up of a basic combination including warm up, cardio, weight or resistant training followed by some floor or core work and a cool down. You can easily warm up by either going for a jog or run around the block, 2 minutes of star jumps or jumping jacks or you could even try skipping for 2 minutes. Any of those exercises will get you warmed up, so move onto the cardio part of your routine.
The cardio part of your home exercise should really follow the warm up and again there are plenty of exercises you can do at home, do you have an exercise bike? If so try a 20-30 minute cycle varying the pace and intensity you work at or you could head back out for a run. Alternatively set yourself up a mini circuit try 1 minute jogging on the spot, 30 seconds running on the spot then back to 1 minute jogging. This type of training is called interval training and if the best type of exercise for weight loss. Skipping is another great way of upping your heart rate and will really get you working.
Once you’ve finished the cardio part of your routine now is the time to do some sit ups for the abs, sets of squats for the legs, the plank for your core and some press ups for your shoulder and you chest. Aim to initially do 3 sets of between 12- 15 reps, you should start to fatigue about 3 reps from the end.
Finally it is really important to stretch, stretch every muscle in your body especially the muscles you have really worked. Your home exercise routine should last approximately 1 hour and if you can aim to workout 3 times a week you should start to notice a difference in your weight and body shape.
Here is a quick and simple guide to working out with no equipment at home. First and foremost even though you don’t have specific gym equipment at home there are lots of things you will more than likely find around your house which you can use as exercise equipment. Tins of food can act as hand weights, big bags of rice or pasta can be used to put on your back and add weight when you are doing press ups or across your chest when doing sit ups.
If you’re looking to workout and exercise at home without any equipment take a look around your home and see what you can find to make your home exercises more challenging.
Do you have stairs at home? Try marching up and downs the stairs, this will help tone your legs and can also become part of your cardio workout. Also put your back leg on the bottom stair and do some lunges, your stairs are an ideal piece of exercise equipment that you probably wouldn’t even think about using but they’re there so make the most of them. Sit ups are another easy at home exercise and you can try push ups as well.
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