At Home Fitness
Working out at home is a great way to save time and money. The gym can get expensive if you’re low on funds as well as gas money to and from. Time is saved too, which is great for those who are always in a hurry. Plus anyone can do at home fitness.
It good to have a small amount of equipment like dumb bells, exercise ball, and an exercise mat, but you don’t have to have those either. The main thing you need is consistency.
Don’t forget that simple household tasks and chores are considered exercise. For example, yard work, cleaning, vacuuming and even playing with the kids can get your heart rate up.
This way you also work muscles in different ways and alleviate boredom. There are thousands of people who quit exercise or an activity out of sheer boredom. This is why it’s good to change it up as often as possible. It’s also good to do what you enjoy.
If you enjoy the exercise or activity you will do it more often. For instance, there are a lot of men who enjoy washing and waxing a car, which gets the car clean and is good exercise.
In addition, many people have treadmills or stationary bikes and use them for at home fitness as well as aerobic or step videos. Anything that gets you moving will help you stay in shape at home. Think out of the box and be willing to try some different things.
Start out easy by doing some form of activity or exercise 3-5 days a week for 30 minutes. Then gradually increase the time to 60 minutes as well as upping the intensity.
Naturally, if your goal is to lose weight you will also need to reduce calories. Activity alone will not take off excess pounds nobody likes to hear this, but it is necessary.
Remember, anything you do that gets you moving is a form of exercise. Don’t underestimate at home fitness it works if you do it consistently.
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.