How did anyone start lifting without the gym?

Oh there are tons of ways! Upi could take an empty milk jug or a pair of them and fill them with water to your desired weight and use those as weights. Your own body weight is also a great weight resistance. I am doing a lot of training with a physical therapyst who uses mostly our body weight for resistance. We warm up with 10 burpies (if you don't know what a burpie is, its where you go from a standing position, get on the ground to do a push-up, hop back into the standing position, then hop up into the air. Thats one) then 10 supermans (you lie on your tummy then have your arms extended straight out in front of you then lift your legs off the floor and rais your arms up from the floor) then 10 flat backs (lye flat on your back and have your arms extended out over your head with your thumbs pointed to the ground and legs flat. Then you bring your body up from the flat position while keeping your arms straight and your knees up until your feet can be placed flat on the ground and return to the begining position. Thats one) then 10 body squats, then 10 dips. Thats the warm up. Then we get into the workout. We mainly do something like 30, 20, 10. so 30 burpies, body squats, flat backs, mountian climbers, dips. Then 20, then 10. We try to get it all done in 20 minutes. If you can't then you do what you can but dont stop moving. I have been doing this kind of stuff and I have gained so much more stregnth. It is amazing to me how much workout you can get with just your own body weight. If you are looking to stregnth train, I would look on line and see if you can't find more workouts like the one I mentioned above. Just make sure it is something you're doing to your own bodies copacity. Make sure you are listening to your body, not your mind. your head is going to tell you, you are tired and you should give up. Your body will keep going if you allow it. Push till the point of pain, if you get there then back off. You never want to push through pain. Thats how people get injured.

If you just want to lift some weights then I would say take a look around the house and see what resembles equipment around the house. A chair can be used to do dips. There are countless exercises you can do on the floor. When I just had my daughter I used to use her as a curling bar lol....carefully of course. I would be sitting while I did it. Then when she was big enough I used to use her as a benching bar. I would lie on the flor and bench her a few times. She loved it and thought it was fun. I would even go to your local thrift store and see if you cant find some low weight dumbbells. I found some rinky dink 15lb ones but they do the trick when I can't make it to the gym. If you would like more workouts like the one I posted above let me know and I will be happy to share. I have lot's of them. Just make sure if you are going to do the 30, 20, 10 that you are giving yourself about a minute of rest in between.

Oh there are tons of ways! Upi could take an empty milk jug or a pair of them and fill them with water to your desired weight and use those as weights. Your own body weight is also a great weight resistance. I am doing a lot of training with a physical therapyst who uses mostly our body weight for resistance. We warm up with 10 burpies (if you don't know what a burpie is, its where you go from a standing position, get on the ground to do a push-up, hop back into the standing position, then hop up into the air. Thats one) then 10 supermans (you lie on your tummy then have your arms extended straight out in front of you then lift your legs off the floor and rais your arms up from the floor) then 10 flat backs (lye flat on your back and have your arms extended out over your head with your thumbs pointed to the ground and legs flat. Then you bring your body up from the flat position while keeping your arms straight and your knees up until your feet can be placed flat on the ground and return to the begining position. Thats one) then 10 body squats, then 10 dips. Thats the warm up. Then we get into the workout. We mainly do something like 30, 20, 10. so 30 burpies, body squats, flat backs, mountian climbers, dips. Then 20, then 10. We try to get it all done in 20 minutes. If you can't then you do what you can but dont stop moving. I have been doing this kind of stuff and I have gained so much more stregnth. It is amazing to me how much workout you can get with just your own body weight. If you are looking to stregnth train, I would look on line and see if you can't find more workouts like the one I mentioned above. Just make sure it is something you're doing to your own bodies copacity. Make sure you are listening to your body, not your mind. your head is going to tell you, you are tired and you should give up. Your body will keep going if you allow it. Push till the point of pain, if you get there then back off. You never want to push through pain. Thats how people get injured.

If you just want to lift some weights then I would say take a look around the house and see what resembles equipment around the house. A chair can be used to do dips. There are countless exercises you can do on the floor. When I just had my daughter I used to use her as a curling bar lol....carefully of course. I would be sitting while I did it. Then when she was big enough I used to use her as a benching bar. I would lie on the flor and bench her a few times. She loved it and thought it was fun. I would even go to your local thrift store and see if you cant find some low weight dumbbells. I found some rinky dink 15lb ones but they do the trick when I can't make it to the gym. If you would like more workouts like the one I posted above let me know and I will be happy to share. I have lot's of them. Just make sure if you are going to do the 30, 20, 10 that you are giving yourself about a minute of rest in between.

WOW thank you so much! I don't quite understand what you mean by the 30, 20, 10? I'm a little illiterate in terms of exercising.
I want to do what ever possible to get "SOLID" if you will. I'm at a weight that's good for me, but Im super "doughy"

My overall goal is fill myself with muscle, and NOT lose my butt.

So I pretty much want to do a transformation, with stronger less flabby arms, stomach, and my thighs.


Thanks a lot

30, 20, 10 means you do all the exercises 30 times then 20 times, then 10 times. I have seen people that have never worked out a day in their life come in and start the program. They do it 2 days a week for 12 weeks. By the time they are done with the 12th week, they are amazed at how much stronger they were from when they started. I just did my test today to see where I was at when I started and I doubled my numbers. It is amazing what you can do if you stop listening to your mind and let your body do the work! You can do it! Just take your time, don't sacrafice speed for form and keep moving! I will tell you one thing, you cannot "spot treat" it is an over all thing. If you were blessed with a beyonce booty then chances are is it will be proportionate with the rest of your body as it shrinks. I have a lot of junk in the trunk as well and have been down to 139 (im 5'9) so that was a pretty low weight for me. I still had the junk in the trunk. Those things are genetic.