Exercise at home ( No Gym/ at home gyms)

I am a video junkie (I frequently find cheap but effective workouts at places like Wal-Mart and TJ Maxx), I love dancing (PRIVATELY, lol, so I can really let loose), running around the neighborhood and at parks, YouTube... You could always take it back to gym class with suicides, squat thrusts, push-ups, mountain climbers etc and kind make your own circuit workout.

30 Day Shred works like magic. Also, you could try ab exercises, squats, push ups, etc.

Swimming, and walking will be of good too.

Hope this helps

I just bought some 20kg dumbbells (they have 2x 3kg and 2x 1.5kg plates each). They don't take up much space and allow me to do all kinds of strength exercises.

I love my adjustable dumbells too! There are lots of great bodyweight strength programs you could try too and of course yoga! Sounds like you have a lot of great options for cardio already but there's always dancing, jogging, and lots of free workouts to follow along to on YouTube. I prefer to work out at home because it's a time saver and a stress reliever for me.

I have a gym membership but I don't use it because I find the gym too annoying. I have been following my own plan for months.

The following cardio is free:

Walking
Running
Cycling

I currently do a 5k run or two every week and a 10k about once a month.

As for strength training, you can use your own bodyweight doing things like press-ups, crunches, planks, squats. However you will not build a lot of muscle without barbells or dumbells. I also have adjustable barbells and dumbbells that I use.

Invest in a good mat as well. Carpet is just not the same.

I love road biking the most! I do a video everyday. Hate the gym and find I workout better at home. Love Tae Bo, old school step aerobics, 30DS, Insanity (ok I cant even come close to doing the entire video). I have 8lb, 10lb weights, step platform and resistance bands...thats it

I do workout videos from www.fitnessblender.com . They have tons of videos to chose from. You could do cardio, interval training and strength for all body parts.The quality is really good and they explain everything perfectly. I love it and it's all free.

I exercise at home- iv e lost 30 pounds............
1. lesline sansone- 1 mile, 2 mile, 3 mile walk videos on you tube
2, walking
3. elliptical
4. dancing- just pu t on music and dance
5. low impact aerobic videos on you t ube
6. playing catch/ playing Frisbee

I walk. A LOT. Job is stressful, and the time alone to decompress and just BE is nearly as beneficial as the exercise itself is. Waiting for busted ankle to finish healing before trying to get back into running/biking.

It will work, everyone here is doing an awesome job!! You just need to up your game plan. I started and finished 30DS, then moved on the insanity and now doing P90X AND insanity, 6 days a week, so, keep doing what you are doing and add a bit more, week by week and you WILL see the results. I lost a few pounds, nothing to write home about, but dropped 2 dress sizes and got leaner

Good luck in your journey:happy:

I didn't have any of that when I first started my fitness journey. I bought 30 Day Shred and did that with 3 and 5 lb. weights. I also walked a lot. After I lost some weight and had been doing 30DS for a while I bought some new exercise DVDs and did those.

I lost 40# and never had a gym membership.

I have lost all my weight without a gym, or gym machines for the most part. I do have a treadmill because I can't be in the heat during summer as they trigger migraines, but when it's not hot out I take a walk to the park or go hiking a lot.

Other things that I do that don't include machines: Jillian Michaels video's such as 30 day shred, ripped in 30, Fitnessblender which can be found on youtube, or their website at fitnessblender.com Dumbells are a good idea to have around, and they aren't that expensive and store easily. If you absolutely cannot spend money on dumbells right now, soup can's would work, or water bottles for substitutes. You can find zumba video's on youtube as well. If your looking for something super intense, I recommend Zuzka Light, however, when I mean intense, I mean intense. I thought Jillian was intense, until I started doing Zuzka's workouts and now Jillian is nothing. But Jillian's 30 day shred is a really great video to start out on, I've had great results from it, and so have many other people!

I also go hiking a lot. Actually, a LOT of the weight I have lost has mainly come from walking/hiking and some Jillian. Swimming is another one of my favorites, especially when I have a river less than 5 minutes away and a lake that is 15 minutes away. Unfortunately can't do the lake right now due to algae, so that's out probably for the entire summer. Hmm, if you have a bike you can go for a bike ride, I recently got one and love to take it down to the library to rent out books Tennis is inexpensive really, just have to have a place to play it, which hopefully you should have a few around, and another person to play with.

Zumba is a really great way to get cardio in and lose weight, you can find these on youtube as mentioned earlier. Most places (at least around here) offer a 1 hour zumba class for $5 or 5 for $20 Which is actually really cheap. I'm actually going to a zumba class on Sunday with a friend, I'm looking forward to it


Anyway, these are a lot of the things that I do, just ideas to get you started that are not that expensive. ^_^

I hate gyms, so I haven't stepped foot in one since high school. My fitness is all outdoors until winter, and then it suffers. In the summer I run 3 days a week, walk every day that I don't run, and go canoeing and hiking as much as I can. In the winter I just do Zumba and Pilates. (DVD and Kinect). I also use the internet for inspiration for stretching etc...so I also am doing sit ups, squats, planks, light weights (should get into something heavier, but lack of money for now), push ups etc, at home.

I jog in place, do calisthenics, and find heavy things to pick up and put back down.

I really like dailyhiit.com they have new workouts everyday and its free and you don't have to sign up or anything either. They do a blog as well and all the trainers post good tips and encouragement on their Facebook pages. Zuzka Light is good too, she uses to be with the dailyhiit folks when it was bodyrock, hers is a little more intense though.

For dailyhiit you can do most workouts with no equipment, I just have 5 lb weights and everything else I use things in my home in place of actual equipment.

There's this girl on YouTube who's channel is called Blogilates. She uses very little materials, and when she does, it's typically stuff you have around the household. (Chairs, stools, cans/other heavy-ish objects if you don't have weights).
It doesn't seem that hard on some videos but once you get going it's just awesome.

Ooh great suggestion here, forgot about Blogilates! Cassey is awesome. On her website she posts a calendar each month telling you which workouts to do on which days. Then you just do the videos for each day and you're done! She's so high-energy and fun, but the workouts are tough if you do them right. I definitely recommend checking her website out.