At Home Fitness
When you think of at home fitness it brings to mind people who have treadmills, stationary bikes or maybe even a mini-gym in a spare room or basement. While this may be true in some cases, however, there are people who need to workout from home for various reasons who don’t have any equipment.
If you find yourself needing to do at home fitness then you’re not alone. Whether it’s due to no transportation, bad weather or you just simply can’t afford it there’s always the old stand by exercises that everyone knows how to do. Here’s the list just in case you forgot:
* Push ups
* Squats
* Lunges
*Step ups
* Crunches
* Plank
* Chair dips
* Leg raises
You can do these at home fitness exercises in any order you choose and do them as a routine. Do at least 8-12 repetitions of each one. If you want to you can also do several sets and start at the beginning to make it a circuit routine. You can do the circuit as many times as you are able.
There should always be a brief warm up to prevent injury and get circulation pumping. You can do this by jogging in place or around the house. If you have stairs use those and pretend you’re Sylvester Stallone in the movie Rocky.
It’s a good idea to do the at home fitness routine or circuit at least 3 days a week with one day off in between for muscles to develop and avoid burn out.
Some other ideas for at home fitness is buy a few small pieces of equipment to vary the routine. Like an exercise ball, Power Block, jump rope, mini-trampoline, exercise mat and a few workout videos. I have some favorite picks here on the blog to your right.
