Help on how to strength train at home?

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  • karendee4
    karendee4 Posts: 558 Member
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    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
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  • susanmarnold
    susanmarnold Posts: 142
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    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
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    BUMP! Definitely need this!
  • 4d9r
    4d9r Posts: 111 Member
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    Bump to read later!
  • pitawingnut
    pitawingnut Posts: 8 Member
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  • sally_jeffswife
    sally_jeffswife Posts: 766 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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  • MostlyWater
    MostlyWater Posts: 4,294 Member
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    Get a good video like from Karen Voight or Corey Everson.
  • chica6578
    chica6578 Posts: 76 Member
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    bump for all the cool websites!
  • subconscious_ink
    subconscious_ink Posts: 194 Member
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    lots of useful info :)
  • kathendo1984
    kathendo1984 Posts: 111
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    bumping for later :-)
  • lauraellie10
    lauraellie10 Posts: 273 Member
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    Great info thanks x
  • balancedbrunette
    balancedbrunette Posts: 530 Member
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    excellent advice on here, bumping for again :)
  • nik2710
    nik2710 Posts: 49 Member
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  • Cp731
    Cp731 Posts: 3,195 Member
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    •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
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  • bodymax18
    bodymax18 Posts: 1
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    Or you could do what Jillian Michaels really does, join a gym

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