Advice needed on starting home exercise

Nix143

Hi Guys

Apologies if this topic has been done to death, I'm new and slightly over whelmed by the volume of information available.

Here's the situation - following illness and surgery I'v put a lot of weight on, stopped exercising but have had my lightbulb moment this week - time to start looking after myself. I used to use Livestrong/Daily Plate and so am ok with tracking what I eat and have started making some healthier choices there.

I'm going to join a gym but for the next couple of months I'm financially a bit challenged. And when I got ill I got rid of my dumbbells and free weights.

I'd like to kick off some strength training at home until such time as I can commit to the gym fees and wondered if there was a schedule anyone could recommend until such time as I can start training properly. I'm VERY out of condition so effectively starting from scratch but eager to jump on it once again.

Any ideas? Only thing I now have at home is a pull up bar - oh and a tredmill - forgot about that! To be honest I'm more interested in strength than cardio.

UrbanSpaceman75

Here's the beginners' bodyweight routine that I'm using at the moment. No equipment required....

http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/12/09/beginner-body-weight-workout-burn-fat-build-muscle/

Nix143

Cool, that looks like a good starting point, thanks

I like being told how much to do of something

UrbanSpaceman75

Yep, I particularly like the approach he takes - here's what to aim for, if you can't do yet, do X instead/do what you can, if it's too easy, do Y. It sets targets to aim at, but doesn't set the bar too high in terms of expectations about where people might be starting from in terms of fitness/flexibility.