Bad Weather: Great Time for Home Workouts

Bad weather is a great time to work out at home.

Let's face it. After being gone all day it feels better to stay home than to go to the gym- especially when it's cold and gray out.

Isn't it great that home exercise takes less time and can cost no money, or that it doesn't matter how you're dressed? How about the fact that no one's watching? Do you see advantages here?

Going to the gym is fabulous but it can also be a fitness habit killer. There's an inherent problem with relying upon getting to the gym to exercise: some sort of obstacle is surely guaranteed to appear at some point in your life, and threaten to interrupt your exercise habit. Whether for a single day or more, a top advantage to home exercise is the removal of the threat of interruption.

Squats and deadlifts are two fabulous exercises easily learned and done in any room in your home. Use them to strengthen and shape your lower body.

In your kitchen multi-task by doing shoulder shrugs while cooking or washing dishes. Pick up a couple vegetable cans to do bicep curls and lateral raises. Using vegetable cans as exercise equipment is nothing new: it might just be time to remember something you forgot about. Cans can tide you over until you purchase a couple sets of light weight dumbbells.

If your can or dumbbell feels too light for you, then challenge yourself by increasing your number of repetitions per set. Create a great little strength-aerobics workout for yourself by pairing light weight with increased repetitions. A higher number of repetitions using much lighter weights will definitely get you going.

Doorways and kitchen chairs can be used as balance aids while doing a variety of upper and lower body movements. Use a doorway for balance as you raise your arms overhead to stretch and relieve upper-back tension acquired from hours sitting at your computer. Kitchen chairs are great to hold on to while doing leg lifts.

Push-ups are still a great choice: if you lack strength you can learn the modified form. While you're on the floor, get into the plank position for more abdominal work.

Get creative in your bedroom. Your bed is softer than the softest carpet and can be quite effective for beginning stretching and body toning. Each time you utilize your master bathroom, before leaving your bedroom get onto your bed to limber up. Move around freely for perhaps 30-60 seconds and then add a few leg-lifts. Leg-lifts done while lying on a bed can be great beginner abdominal exercises.

Add music to these activities and you'll be having fun while you're getting into great shape.

If you exercise at home, then almost nothing can stop you except you.

One solid block of time is not required for home workouts. A full body workout can be accomplished in thirty second intervals scattered throughout your day, throughout your home. The cumulative effect over time can make thirty second intervals significant.


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