Cant get to the gym very often.. anything i can do at home?

Zombie_Cakes
Zombie_Cakes Posts: 5
in Health and Weight Loss
I'm doing my very best to drop this weight but the biggest issue is i feel a need t be working out.. but i cant get to the gym very often.. any tips or advice for some at home workouts to help me bust down some of this weight?
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  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    BeFit channel on YouTube has good workout videos. Also nerdfitness.com is a good site. HTH
  • Scrogglez
    Scrogglez Posts: 26 Member
    Buy a 100pound adjustable dumbbell (50-100$ depending on where you shop), perhaps find a treadmill from a yard sale (if your short on cash) or even a few 20pound barbells. Start small and work out!

    Also check out :

    http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

    If you start lifting your not going to get HUGE and become an muscle women, its all about the weight you lift. Keep it small and get toned or go huge and get big.
  • Butinox
    Butinox Posts: 43 Member
    I have a "mini-gym" at home, with bicycle, weights, punching bag etc. Occasionally I work out watching for instance Jillian Michaels on You Tube. And I love walking in the mountains, and walking and bicycling along the road.

    So it is a lot you can do at home, just find out what you like. :)
  • BeachIron
    BeachIron Posts: 6,490 Member
    check out nerdfitness.com or buy a sand bag
  • wannabpiper
    wannabpiper Posts: 402 Member
    I mapped out a 3-mile course down my street and back. I try to walk it every day - although I rarely get to do it every day. I also do modified pushups where I grab a short dresser and do them. You can also do any of the body-resistance exercises like sit-ups, planks, etc.
  • hmuh
    hmuh Posts: 379 Member
    YouTube is the best for this! I love ZuzkaLight's ZWOWs. Looking forward to seeing more ideas :)
  • thinbeautifulnonsmoker
    thinbeautifulnonsmoker Posts: 12 Member
    Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds -- Great Stuff!! It works if you work it :)
  • jeanninecurran
    jeanninecurran Posts: 63 Member
    leslie sansone is my advice, too. You only need limited space and it's fun and gets the job done
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    When I had a hard time getting to the gym, I quit the gym and bought weights for home. I do all my running outside. Now the only thing that keeps me from exercise is when I'm too sick to stand up. :laugh:
  • JankaLee
    JankaLee Posts: 35 Member
    On beautiful days when I don't want to be inside at a gym, I go to the park :) I jump rope, I do pushups, jump up on park benches, tricep dips on park benches. Walking squats around the tennis court. Burpees, I attempt pull ups. I bring resistance bands and do bicep curls, wrap the band around a tree and push out like a chest press. So many things you can do at a local park, and if you hit it up at like 5:30 in the morning it is just you and other people working out as well so no judgement from kids :)
  • thisdamselflies
    thisdamselflies Posts: 92 Member
    I have a small home gym as well, with weights ranging from 3lbs to 20lbs, bands, yoga mats and blocks, and some BeachBody videos. You can definitely lift, and lift heavy, without bulking up. Those tiny 3-pound weights are for cardio workouts. For strength training, you should lift as heavy as you can for 8-12 reps. Light weights won't really do much. I also like the HIIT workouts on the DailyHiit website. They're short, challenging, and get your heart rate up.
  • TheStephil
    TheStephil Posts: 858 Member
    If you start lifting your not going to get HUGE and become an muscle women, its all about the weight you lift. Keep it small and get toned or go huge and get big.

    Sorry but no.
    You can lift heavy and you won't get "huge". To become bulky a woman needs to train and work very very hard to get that affect. Lifting heavy won't suddenly create huge muscles. Screw 20lbs dumbbells.
  • kristinchaus
    kristinchaus Posts: 3 Member
    I love www.blogilates.com and www.fitnessblender.com. Free and tons of videos :smile:
  • kristinchaus
    kristinchaus Posts: 3 Member
    Befit is a great one too!
  • evolutionbyariana
    evolutionbyariana Posts: 60 Member
    Buy a 100pound adjustable dumbbell (50-100$ depending on where you shop), perhaps find a treadmill from a yard sale (if your short on cash) or even a few 20pound barbells. Start small and work out!

    Also check out :

    http://liamrosen.com/fitness.html

    If you start lifting your not going to get HUGE and become an muscle women, its all about the weight you lift. Keep it small and get toned or go huge and get big.

    I have to disagree about keeping the weight small to get toned. Those big muscular women eat at an incredibly large caloric surplus to get muscles like that, in addition to INTENSE training and probably drugs in some of the more extreme cases! I lift heavy weights and I am far from huge!!
  • evolutionbyariana
    evolutionbyariana Posts: 60 Member
    Sorry, I forgot the main point of my post! At-home workouts! Blogilates, BodyRockTV, and Tone it Up are all great options!
  • Therealobi1
    Therealobi1 Posts: 3,262 Member
    fitness blender.com
  • mmoonstars
    mmoonstars Posts: 103 Member
    Jillian Michael's DVD's are good for at home and don't require a ton of cost equipment wise to do!
  • Daisey4522
    Daisey4522 Posts: 171 Member
    I never go to the gym because I really do not have the time. This is what I do instead:

    FitnessBlender.com
    Wii - Zumba
    Wii - Biggest Loser
    Wii - Just Dance 2
    Walk my dogs
    A daily workout that I do in my office during lunch (which includes things like jumping jacks, lunges, squats, Russian twists, push ups, etc)

    I highly recommend investing in a wii if you do not own one. The old wii system is dirt cheap right now since they came out with a new system :) I burn A LOT of calories doing Wii Zumba -- and it's fun!
  • tenkesh
    tenkesh Posts: 81
    P90X, Insanity will kick your *kitten* in your own house very effectively. I didn't go to gym for 3 years in a row, cause I was just doing P90X, P90X+ and P90X2 at home. Tried Insanity but it didn't really suit me, cause there's just way too much jumping and my knees started to hurt.
  • hollysmom55
    hollysmom55 Posts: 6
    I'm doing my very best to drop this weight but the biggest issue is i feel a need t be working out.. but i cant get to the gym very often.. any tips or advice for some at home workouts to help me bust down some of this weight?

    I live in a really small apartment, and found a sturdy but small exercise bike. It folds up into a corner for when you have company. It is completely silent, and I can even watch TV while I am riding it. It was $130 w/free shipping at Overstock.com. If you want the link, let me know. I am also now walking 4.25 miles a day. I think I over did it a little and have to take a break today, because I was so sore I could barely walk out to my car to go for coffee. I had gone up 3 lbs., and yesterday I was back down. But I really haven't lost any weight since Easter. All I have left is belly fat, and it just seems to be impossible to get off. I will run myself ragged into the ground if I have to, but I am going to get it off. Right now I look really good except for my belly.
  • christylindquist
    christylindquist Posts: 32 Member
    There are TONS of workouts on Youtube, also Pinterest.com has a lot of at home circuits that area great. I don't have a gym membership and my apartment is small. But there's just enough room for me to workout.
  • changejen2013
    changejen2013 Posts: 87
    I've lost a lot of weight doing at home dvds by Jillian Michaels. Most people on MFP have, I believe, at some point used JM dvds.
    You can search on youtube for all her stuff. I HIGHLY recommend her. I'm roughly 195lbs and 5'8 and in 20 minutes I can burn 350 calories. It's great!
  • mperrott2205
    mperrott2205 Posts: 737 Member
    DVD's: Insanity, P90x

    Buy yourself a set of dumbbells, a barbell and a bench.

    Run outside. Job done.
  • bgraz1994
    bgraz1994 Posts: 56 Member
    Gym Free Cardio:
    -run outdoors
    -Bicycling
    -rollerblading
    -jump rope
    -walking

    Equipment free Calisthenics:
    -Planks
    -Sit-ups
    -Crunches
    -Push-ups
    -Tricep dips
    -Squats
    -Lunges
    -Donkey Kicks
    -Arm circles/pulses

    Dumbbell Exercises: (Dumbbells are cheap and easy to store at home)
    -bicep curls
    -tricep extensions
    -chest fly
    -reverse fly
    -bent over row
    -deadlifts
    -chest press
    -shoulder press

    Other Ideas:
    -youtube videos
    -workout dvds
  • Yogi_Carl
    Yogi_Carl Posts: 1,906 Member
    I'm doing my very best to drop this weight but the biggest issue is i feel a need t be working out.. but i cant get to the gym very often.. any tips or advice for some at home workouts to help me bust down some of this weight?

    Hya. May I suggest an excellent bodyweight training manual called, "You Are Your Own Gym". Google it to find out more and I believe there is an app that you can use as well by the same name.

    all best!
  • AndorZensko
    AndorZensko Posts: 47 Member
    I have not lost a lot of weight yet, but what I have lost has never come off at the gym. I have several videos by various fitness "experts" in various stages of fitness. Even on the days that I do not feel well or have not slept well and don't want to do anything I can because I have walking videos to at least be moving, then on the days that I wake up and feel like I can do it all I have the Jillian Michaels and Tracy Austins and such. The other reason I have different videos is because I get bored and need to do something different from time to time. There are also the insanity and PX90 videos that I have not gotten into but I have heard great things about from friends. Find what works for you and just get moving and it will come off.
  • psharma06
    psharma06 Posts: 93 Member
    Check out Ftiness Blender on Youtube, they have great workouts
  • Puffingmuffin
    Puffingmuffin Posts: 76 Member
    Download the 'map my run' app. It's free, fantastic and tracks your runs (calories, speed and distance). Running outdoors is all the cardio I do. It's free and I feel like a superstar after, albeit it being winter in the country I'm running now.

    Buy a barbell set (20kg to 50kg) so you can do strength training on the cheap. Do the 30 day squat challenge with fun music. It's free and I can start to see results on Day 6!

    This is what I do for my exercise routine. I'm having great success with it since last year. I have dropped a dress size within 2 months. I feel the gym is a waste of money (ranges from $45 to $90 per month)and my closest one is far away from where I live. Good luck
  • 7opoundsin16weeks
    7opoundsin16weeks Posts: 211 Member
    cry at home

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