Anyone else only working out at home ONLY

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  • ecka723
    ecka723 Posts: 148 Member
    Resistance bands give you the best bang for your buck, especially if you buy some that are interchangeable or have different bands for different resistances.
  • DaniKenmir
    DaniKenmir Posts: 387 Member
    Yeah, we got a cheap weight set, a $99 exercise bike and a treadmill, heaps of dvd's and a large air con! It's so much better than the gym!
  • I also work out at home... it's the only thing that works for me. I don't have time to get to the gym, workout, then back home. I've been working out at home since 1998. I mostly use DVD's. I have all of Cathe Friedrich... she's the absolute best!!! Nothing better. I also have Insanity, P90X, George St-Pierre, Jillian, you name it ... I probably have it... I'm addicted to fitness DVD's. I also have a treadmill for those days when it's freezing. My latest purchase is a spin bike... love it! Easy on my joints... not getting any younger. I also walk a lot, we own a cottage on the beach... this is when I walk for miles with a weighted vest on the days I can get there. For anyone starting out at home.... buy some Cathe Friedrich DVD's.... she's fantastic. She's the one that got me to fall in love with working out at home 25 years ago.
  • spicypepper
    spicypepper Posts: 1,016 Member
    I work out from home and this time around I've been very successful. Prior to this weight loss success I worked out at a gym and so I was really scared about working out at home. Gym = 48 lbs lost Home = 54 lbs lost.

    Winner winner chicken dinner!

    I solely use Zumba and 30 DS.
  • LisaGirlfriend
    LisaGirlfriend Posts: 493 Member
    I belonged to a gym for years, pretty consistently; I was a regular, always there through the waves of people who start in January every year and then quit around February or March. I would get up at 5am to workout for an hour before work and I just hated it (plus I wasn't paying attention to my eating at the time so it was good for fitness but not for weight loss).

    Last summer I started working out at home with Jillian DVDs (30DS, RI30) and kettlebells and I've never felt better. I've cut my workout time in half by no longer needing to commute to/from the gym and have cut the every increasing gym expenses as well (the cost of the DVDs+kettlebells were equivalent to 2 months of gym membership). When the weather warms up I plan to walk and bike and do other non-gym activities. Nothing against the gym-lovers but I'm going to need a pretty compelling reason to go back.

    ME TOO EXACTLY! I was a regular at my gym 3-4x a week for the last 3 years. But with a change in job location, and now being able to walk to and from work, working out in my basement is my new favourite thing. I have a full weight bench/weights down there, a treadmill, and I got my hands on Jillian's 30 Day Shred. LOVE IT!!! Love not smelling that awful smell at the gym, love not having to commute, love being in the comfort of my own home with the music blasting. And I love that I can completely motivate myself. :-)
  • Hi! I workout at home because I'm too embarrassed and broke to join a gym. I borrow fitness dvds from the library (sometimes they have them on sale too) and then I can get an idea if it's one I'd like to buy. My favorites are the 10 minute solution ones (I mix and match them to make a 60 min workout) and the firm. The Firm are hit and miss though, some are terribly basic, and some are just too hard to keep up! I also use my phone as a pedometer, which makes me deliberately walk more just to see how far I'll go in a day!
  • MorgueBabe
    MorgueBabe Posts: 1,188 Member
    I can't afford my gym membership anymore.
    I do Jillian Michaels DVDs.
  • blu_meanie_ca
    blu_meanie_ca Posts: 352 Member
    I could pay for a gym membership, but, I would have to stuff my children in a closet and hope no one alerted the authorities before I got home (the gym does offer childcare, but that bumps the cost into the I can't afford it category). Plus, I would have to wear shoes, and I find it near impossible to balance properly in shoes (and, also, would have to pay for said shoes... more money I don't have).
    Instead, I've found that I can on you-tube until I figured out what I liked, and splurged on a Zumba box set, and a cross training dvd. I've gone from lazy sloth to cardio junkie anyways, and do cardio usually twice a day. I'd hate to have to lock my kids in the closet for all that period of time.
  • I work out at home because I feel happiest in surroundings that I Love. I get my energy from natural light so I am outside walking and playing tennis just for fun. My husband bought me a treadmill last year, and I use it in the morning and when the weather is bad.Shake weight for my arms work really well believe it or not. ( once ya get past the laughing), from feeling silly. But, you can burn calories doing just about anything. Just keep track. I use the map my walk app too. Its great at adding yr miles and calories burned. I also walk 3 miles to the store on nice days. I also enjoy belly dancing, Zumba, and Island dance workout. Give me at home work out any day! Next step...maybe starting a walking group ?:)
  • Glmay2
    Glmay2 Posts: 1 Member
    INsanity. NO equipment needed at all. I can't keep up with the speed at which they do the exercises on video, but I do my best and I can burn off 600-700 calories/hr. I have also used biggest loser DVDs and during the spring and summer, bicycling in the area.
  • AZChatterB
    AZChatterB Posts: 248 Member
    I work out at home, too. I have a variety of cardio and strength training DVDs, weights, bands, and a jump rope. I did a boot camp for a month (groupon), but the others in the group were 15-20 years younger than me. I don't want the expense of a gym. Eventually, I would like to have a trainer to help me with my strength training, but like the gym membership, can't add the expense right now.
  • seaKind
    seaKind Posts: 136
    do you have netflix? they have a ton of instant watch workout videos...
  • coburngirl
    coburngirl Posts: 69 Member
    Definitely love working out at home. I do have a treadmill which I use a few days a week, workout vids, 2 sets of free weights and used to jump rope. TONS of free workouts on youtube leaves me never bored. I do cardio, cardio with strength 2 days a week, and yoga stretching every day with Denise Austin. Harvey Pasternak 5 factor fitness is a great book for home workouts as is Body For LIfe which also has the whole plan free online. Good luck and I think that whatever makes you want to get up and move is the best thing to look for :) I have also found that the public libraries have a lot of workout DVDs and health/fitness books, so you could get some ideas for free that way as well.
  • rosettafaery
    rosettafaery Posts: 102 Member
    I workout at home too. I do Wii Fit and the Just Dance series on the Wii and Your Shape: Fitness evolved 2012 and Dance Central on the Xbox 360 with kinect.
    I also try and go walking or cycling on the weekends if the weather isn't too bad.
    Having to fork out money for gym memberships isn't appealing to me. I have the world on my doorstep so why would I want to be stuck on a treadmill in a gym. It just isn't for me!
  • I work out from home also. I use the Leslie Sansone Walk away the pounds dvds. Love them and have been losing weight with them.
  • Hi Glad to see others are working out with Gazelle glider, I also use Tai Chi Dvd way kewl stretch workout, i have resistance bands in all colors i am at beginner level, when i do walk i use trek poles,, i blew out my kneecap last year and do not want to do it again this year..I love wearing hand weights, we have so many tools for home workouts..i remember my mom holding a can of beans in each hand for weights, using towels for resistance bands, and doing really weird bicycle in the air movements to loose weight in 50s wow..before that she worked in fields next to Amish now that is a work out at home LOL
  • andycet
    andycet Posts: 55 Member
    My wife hated the gym but not I got her turbofire she's managed to do it every day for nearly a month bar 1 yoga workout.

    Myself I love working out at home and saving wasting time with a commute. I still go to a couple of classes at the gym just for variety.

    Would recommend www.dailyhiit.com or Insanity/Turbofire for home workouts
  • unskinnybop1
    unskinnybop1 Posts: 25 Member
    skipping in my back yard- you know jump rope style. Burns lots of calories
  • elena0559
    elena0559 Posts: 29 Member
    I have just started to work out at home, and it is a bummer for me because I dont have the motivation to do it.... but we can afford a gym membership right now so im looking for good you tube videos, etc.... any suggestions?