Get Fit in the Comfort of Your Own Home
Whether you’re prepping for the beach or recuperating from a few months of overeating, you can totally tone up in the comfort of your home without having to worry about who’s looking at you in a gym with this famous & easy home workout.
Home workouts have always played a critical role in the routines of the fittest people I know. Not only are they convenient, but they offer a little variety when the gym becomes too repetitive.
Whether you’re tight on time or just looking for a change, this quick and easy home workout will help keep your fitness and weight loss goals on track.
There are a few key principles to any successful and easy home workout.
First, it has to be appropriate for the space you have. If you live in a condo, you can’t include sprints in your workout. Similarly, you should always make the best use possible of any equipment you have on hand. But getting a little creative can go a long way, as you’ll see from this workout.
You should also make sure that any home workout is balanced. While focused home workouts (such as a home abdominal workout) can definitely be useful, it’s important to have a series of exercises on hand that target every muscle group. This will allow your home workouts to be flexible, and increases the likelihood that you’ll stay on track with your overall routine.
The Famous Easy Home Workout
This easy home workout is ‘famous’ because it draws upon some of the best exercises that most celebrities do when prepping for a movie and is designed to be a total body workout routine that can be completed in less than 30 minutes.
As for equipment, I’m going to give you some options. If you have dumbbells or a workout bench, feel free to use them. Or use a chair or couch instead of a bench, and milk jugs, soup cans, or other household objects instead of dumbbells.
For all of these exercises, aim for 2 sets of 8-12 reps, depending on your time and your workout goals. If your focus is on building strength and size, stick to the lower end of this range. For fat burning and toning, stay around 12 reps per set.
- 3 minutes Warm Up – Jumping Jacks or Jump Rope (TIP: If you’re looking to invest in a good jump rope for home, take a look at this Harbinger Jump Rope.)
- Lateral Lunges (each side) with dumbbells or other weight (view exercise)
- Lower Ab Bicycle Crunch (view exercise)
- Push-ups with feet on bench or couch (view exercise)
- Squats with dumbbell or other weight (view exercise)
- Ab Crunch (hold weight for extra resistance) (view exercise)
- Incline Push-ups with hands on bench or couch (view exercise)
- Standing Bicep Curls with dumbbells or other weight (view exercise)
- Triceps Seated Extensions on chair (view exercise)
- Bent Over Lateral Raises with dumbbells or other weight (view exercise)
- Standing Calf Press with dumbbells or other weight (view exercise)
- Bicycle Crunches (view exercise)
- 3 minutes Cool Down & Stretching
This easy home workout packs quite the punch, and all in under 30 minutes! Get creative when it comes to adding resistance to these exercises, or consider grabbing a set of these Adjustable Resistance Toning Tubes – they can replace pretty much any weight!
For more great home workout equipment, check out my article on Best Home Workout Equipment.
Now at the end of the day, no matter how much you exercise, diet is going to be the other half of the battle. With that in mind, these are some of the most awesome nutritional supplements that can help you lose that excess weight, and lose it fast!
- SleepMode Natural Sleep Aid
- NOW Certified Organic Whey Protein
- Signature Creatine Performance & Recovery
- Optimum Glutamine
- Signature Omega 3 Fish Oil
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