A Few Simple Exercises to Do at Home
Sometimes it’s difficult to have enough time to go to the gym or you don’t want to spend a huge amount of money in expensive machines you may end up not using at all. Try these simple, but effective, low-time consuming at-home workouts that you will find easy to follow.
If you think that you need to go to a gym or buy expensive gear or gadgets to have a good work out, read on and find out a few simple tips to exercise at home using the things you already own.
Warm up
Remember to warm up before engaging into any workout. If you don’t have enough time, try a speed walk when going for the groceries or doing the house cleaning at a faster speed.
Sit squats using your own couch
Placing your feet at hip-width, stand in front of your couch and lower your body as if you were going to sit until your thighs almost touch the couch seat. Maintain your abdominal muscles tight as you inhale. Make sure your back is vertical. Squat up as you exhale. Do 10 reps per set, 2 sets at a time.
Oblicual abs with a volleyball (or not)
Sit on the floor with your knees bent. Lean at 45º keeping your abs pulled in and hold the volleyball, or dubmbell, or anything at all in your hands in front of you with your arms streched out. Inhale and rotate to the left slowly, holding the ball. Exhale and return to original position. Repeat to the opposite direction. Repeat 8 times for each side to complete one set. Do 4 sets.
No time for cardio?
If are out of time for going to the gym for some aerobics, you can try a five minute normal speed walk as a warm up followed by high speed walking for 10-15 minutes. Alternatively, you can skip rope or dance. Just be careful to have the proper shoes. Try this at least three or four times a day and gradually increase time and speed to optimize results. Another good exercise is to go up and down the stairs, if possible, combine two-three minutes of normal speed and one of high speed.
Set your own goals and schedule.
Be realistic, it’s difficult to stick to a a plan of exercising if you don’t have realistic goals. Set weekly and monthly goals, such as time and weight and set your exercising time everyday too.
In the end, is not how much you do in one sit but to have regular work out throughout the day. And remember that it’s not important to go to a gym or class, you can work out at your own home setting a schedule.
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