Exercising Tips at Home

Looking for some exercising tips at home? Here are some pointers on how you can turn your living room into a perfectly decent gym with a minimum of time and cost. Remember; it's about discipline and determination, not how shiny the equipment is. Besides, you may not have the fancy equipment of a gym, but you have something else -- convenience. At home, there are no waiting lines to throw you off the groove and no surprising "out of order" signs to derail you from your established program.

Basic Equipment

Ideally, you have a set of adjustable dumbbells and something that can serve as a bench. The important thing is that it can give you firm support without wiggling about. You will also need something to pull yourself up with. Appropriate items include a sturdy door jamb, an attic beam, a tree branch or whatever else allows you to grip it while also supporting your body weight. Finally, a pair of sturdy chairs rounds up your basic equipment list nicely.

Five Exercising Tips at Home

• First off, you'll be away from the motivating atmosphere of a regular gym or health club. That means you have to provide the motivation yourself to stay the course. To do this, set a series of short-term goals and keep careful track of your progress. For example, if you aim to lose 20 lbs, break it down to 20 weeks and put it on a wall chart next to the scale. Every Monday morning before breakfast, note the weight and use the track record as a visual aid to fight temptation. Why start backsliding now that you've made solid progress for six weeks straight?

• Secondly, keep in mind that the body thrives on challenge. If you do the same workouts week after week, your body soon adapts and you'll cease to grow stronger. Now that you don't have a vast array of machines to choose from, it is even more important to put on the thinking cap and get creative. For example, mix up the regular abdominal crunches with exercises like bent-knee hip raises, air bike, the plank, plank sidestands, alternate heel touches, or any of the other dozens of exercises featured here.

• Thirdly, when you work out at home, you eliminate the need for travel time to and from a gym. Use that to your advantage! Say for example that you'd normally do a weight training session followed by 20 minutes of cardio at the gym. When you work out at home, you can break this into two segments, separate of one another, giving more juice and enabling more effort on both counts. For example, you can do the cardio segment first thing in the morning before breakfast, optimizing fat burn, then do the weights in the evening when you're good and energy-loaded from the day's meals. Then you won't have to hold back to preserve energy for the cardio afterwards, effectively making both workouts that much more effective for their intended purposes.

• Fourthly, a lot of your exercises are bodyweight-based by default and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Calisthenics, as it is called, have been employed for ages with great results. Turn the disadvantage to an advantage by making it a point to master bodyweight-only exercising and alternate between equipment and calisthenics workouts on a regular basis. Learn more about how this can be done here.

• Finally, don't forget the diet aspect of your effort. This may seem somewhat unrelated to the topic of exercising tips at home, but the fact is your diet will have a big impact on your workouts. If you try to a cardio session (running, biking, aerobics tape etc) shortly after a big pasta meal, you'll be bloated and clumsy at best and blowing chunks at worst. Likewise, if you set out on a heavy strength-building workout with a growling belly, you'll soon run out of steam. Needless to say, the diet aspect is especially important if your goal is weight loss.

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