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

BeFit channel on YouTube has good workout videos. Also nerdfitness.com is a good site. HTH

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.

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.

Leslie Sansone's Walk Away the Pounds -- Great Stuff!! It works if you work it

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:

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.

I love www.blogilates.com and www.fitnessblender.com. Free and tons of videos

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!!

fitness blender.com

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!

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.

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!

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

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.

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