Help on how to strength train at home?

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  • JoshRodenberg
    JoshRodenberg Posts: 30
    If you have an android phone check out the jefit app it has quite a bit in it

    i work out at home with some barbells and dumbbells and a bench
  • matt2442
    matt2442 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Convict COnditioning

    You Are Your Own Gym

    My favourite kind
  • Kidostud
    Kidostud Posts: 307 Member
    I'm currently doing No More Trouble Zones from Jillian Michaels. It is a great strengthening DVD and you can up the weights as you get stronger. I alternate it with some of her other workouts.
  • loriband
    loriband Posts: 54 Member
    Great information!!! Thank you!
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
    My.fitness bliss.com

    You put in the equipment you have and which area you want to work (shoulders, legs, chest) and it shows you your options for exercises and gives the details on how to perform them properly.

    Bookmarked this! Thanks.
  • tuppance
    tuppance Posts: 132 Member
    Bump for later - thanks for great tips folks
  • jadethief
    jadethief Posts: 266 Member
    bump
  • 2EggsSeparated
    2EggsSeparated Posts: 107
    Bumping this for later.
  • Tercob
    Tercob Posts: 151 Member
    Bump for later
  • bathony
    bathony Posts: 51
    Kettlebells :)
  • karendee4
    karendee4 Posts: 558 Member
    I use Youtube videos. There are tons!! Some with hand weights and some with body weight. All FREE!

    Try some you might like them.

    PM me if you want specific ones I use.
  • pniana
    pniana Posts: 254 Member
    bump for later
  • susanmarnold
    susanmarnold Posts: 142
    Check out ChaLEAN Extreme. Great program for strength training. I think of it as the not so long version for women of P90X! It is great. I have been doing it for 28 days and loving it!
  • kdcshesback
    kdcshesback Posts: 47 Member
    BUMP! Definitely need this!
  • 4d9r
    4d9r Posts: 111 Member
    Bump to read later!
  • pitawingnut
    pitawingnut Posts: 8 Member
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  • sally_jeffswife
    sally_jeffswife Posts: 766 Member
    Kettlenetics with Michelle Khai is a great workout. You can get the Dvds on Amazon pretty cheap and they come with the starter kettlebell so its a very good value. Her videos are an aerobic dancers type workout with the kettlebell weight. You can always pick up a heavier kettlebell once you get comfortable with the excercises and doing them. I love this one cuz it doesn't bulk you up a ton but can really notice helps tone you up some. And its a good total body type of workout.
  • Yogi_Carl
    Yogi_Carl Posts: 1,906 Member
    Bodyweight workouts. You can do a lot with your bodyweight.

    Just do a basic full body workout with one (at first) or two (as you get more advanced) exercise from each of the 4 main exercise familes:
    Upper Body Pushing, Upper Body Pulling, Legs, and Core

    - For pushing, work whatever pushup variation is appropriate for your strength level (not too easy, if you can do it, its appropriate)
    - For pullups, work up to being able to do chinups then pullups (there are lots of ways to work up to them, google around and find the best path for you).
    - For legs, work up to being able to do single leg squats (pistols). (again, there are lots of ways, google will help find the best path for you).
    - For the core, there are a million different easy to find exercises, core work has oversaturated the fitness industry. Try to do as hard of exercises as you can.

    Always be trying to work toward doing something harder, adding reps/time to what you are doing, and improving your form. This is how you progress and get stronger with bodyweight, as opposed to stacking plates on the bar.

    This is excellent and is the program I follow at home.

    My favourite assistance for pullups is to sling a couple of resistance bands on your pull-up bar and drop one knee into the sling to give some assistance to your upward pull. You can then turn the downward movement into a negative by dropping your knee out of the resistance band.

    Bodyweight exerises are pretty much limitless if you learn to change things up to keep progressing resistance.
  • fruitloop2
    fruitloop2 Posts: 437 Member
    I've been using JM videos and the Nike training app (more so the JM lately). We'll be setting up our home gym of free weights and machines this weekend though, can't wait!
  • zhvah18
    zhvah18 Posts: 158 Member
    Bump
  • MostlyWater
    MostlyWater Posts: 4,294 Member
    Get a good video like from Karen Voight or Corey Everson.
  • chica6578
    chica6578 Posts: 76 Member
    bump for all the cool websites!
  • subconscious_ink
    subconscious_ink Posts: 194 Member
    lots of useful info :)
  • kathendo1984
    kathendo1984 Posts: 111
    bumping for later :-)
  • lauraellie10
    lauraellie10 Posts: 273 Member
    Great info thanks x
  • balancedbrunette
    balancedbrunette Posts: 530 Member
    excellent advice on here, bumping for again :)
  • nik2710
    nik2710 Posts: 49 Member
    Bump
  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
    •An empty gym bag
    •Two empty water jugs
    •Dirt, sand, or kitty litter

    Use the dirt, sand, or litter to increase the weight of the gym bag and the water jugs. Only fill them a little to start, since filling them up completely may make them too heavy. Once it becomes easy to do these exercises, you can increase the weight by filling them even more.
    Single Leg Split Squat
    Deadlift
    Kettlebell
    Overhead Sqaut
    Hammer Curls
    Jump Sqauts
    Overhead Press
    Chair dips

    Read more: http://www.moneycrashers.com/strength-training-exercises-women/#ixzz2RncSHZtd

    On here they explain it all and its brilliant I swear.
  • pagermain
    pagermain Posts: 33 Member
    bump
  • bodymax18
    bodymax18 Posts: 1
    Or you could do what Jillian Michaels really does, join a gym

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