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    How do I add weight training at home with no actual weights

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    edited February 7 in Introduce Yourself
    I am just wondering what I can do to add some weight training at home, I don't have any actual weights and it is really hard to get to the gym since I work full time and have a 6 mo old and a two y/o ......40lbs to lose!

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    • Posts: 72 Member
      search Bodyweight exercises
    • Posts: 15,357 Member
      Try searching for you are your own gym or convict conditioning. Both are body weight strength training programs.
    • Posts: 1
      Use canned goods. Also use your children. Watch youtube videos of exercises with weights and use products in your home. Hold the baby and do squats or lunges.
    • Posts: 2,094 Member
      Do searches for body weight training or calisthenics.
    • Posts: 238 Member
      You could do things like push ups or you could use household items like bleach. Id stick with pushups, dips, etc.
    • Posts: 738 Member
      Strengthen your core before 'weight training'. Things like planks of all varieties, pushups, squats - rent a basic yoga cd from your library or pull up on youtube. There are many options for women who can't get to a gym. I always have found that people who start out by strengthening their core and then building up to bars or bells will do better than those who start out cold.
    • Posts: 834 Member
      Try searching for you are your own gym or convict conditioning. Both are body weight strength training programs.

      ^This
    • Posts: 201
      Nerd Fitness has a great body weight exercise regimen you can do at home. I think its their Angry Birds workout.
    • Posts: 439 Member
      Strengthen your core before 'weight training'. Things like planks of all varieties, pushups, squats - rent a basic yoga cd from your library or pull up on youtube. There are many options for women who can't get to a gym. I always have found that people who start out by strengthening their core and then building up to bars or bells will do better than those who start out cold.

      I respectfully disagree.
    • Posts: 259 Member
      There are plenty of exercises where you can use your own body weight. I would also suggest keeping an eye on craigslist for a moving sale where they really need to get rid of some weights ect for cheap. Have some pics up in my profile of some things I found there. So now I do floor exercises, weights, cardio ect. But yeah, if this is out of the question, just check out YouTube for wonderful ideas and demonstrations.
    • Posts: 72 Member
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      I respectfully disagree.

      uh, what? "bars and bells" help you build a very strong core. So, I respectfully disagree as well.
    • Posts: 1,915 Member
      You can do bench presses and squats with your babies!! Not even kidding! I have a 37lb dog and for some reason she loves when I hold her while doing squats and when I lay on the floor and bench press her up and down.

      When your babies aren't in the mood to be used as weight training equipment, bodyweight exercises are fantastic. This website lists 50 different bodyweight exercises with descriptions on how to do them.

      http://greatist.com/fitness/50-bodyweight-exercises-you-can-do-anywhere
    • Posts: 191
      use cans of veg and bags like flour, sugar
    • Posts: 10 Member
      Use a chair or coach and do incline and decline pushups and dips. Use body bands (rubber bands) great for biceps, triceps and leg exercises. Use soup cans and large water jugs as weights. Find a heavy Vase in the house and use it like a medicine ball for lifting and twisting. Use chairs for box jumps and step lunges.
    • Posts: 146 Member
      I did the Nerd Fitness bodyweight workout for beginners for a while, it's great and you only need a big bottle of milk for it :D

      Having said that, I've just spent a week working out with water bottles instead of weights because I was on holiday, and I'm glad to be back with my dumbbells here. I'd strongly recommend buying at least a couple of dumbbells (they're cheap anyway, but you might get some in a thrift store, or maybe from friends/family who no longer use them) since it's a lot easier to grip them, which means you can focus more on doing the exercises properly.
    • Posts: 345
      Another vote for the nerd fitness bodyweight routine. Their whole website is awesome if you haven't seen it yet. Especially if you're an old school gamer.
    • Posts: 984 Member
      Jillian Michael's Yoga Meltdown
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5nyrD4eM64

      Fitness Blender home workout without weights
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrpGbulGprA

      I like Fitness Blender anything. The guy always explains the exercises well & if I need weights, I use water bottles.
    • Posts: 15,357 Member
      I did the Nerd Fitness bodyweight workout for beginners for a while, it's great and you only need a big bottle of milk for it :D

      Having said that, I've just spent a week working out with water bottles instead of weights because I was on holiday, and I'm glad to be back with my dumbbells here. I'd strongly recommend buying at least a couple of dumbbells (they're cheap anyway, but you might get some in a thrift store, or maybe from friends/family who no longer use them) since it's a lot easier to grip them, which means you can focus more on doing the exercises properly.
      I also started with nerd fitness. And there's all sorts of great ideas for weights you can use. I used a full gallon of paint I had, and if you need heavier, there's always carry-on luggage filled with books. There are lots of in-home programs.
    • Posts: 3,942 Member
      http://eserv.co.uk/irl2/how-to-build-strength-on-a-tight-budget/

      :)
    • Posts: 20 Member
      I use my 8 year old to do my exercise with weights (approx 23kg), and the chairs for triceps and the wall for push ups.
    • Posts: 1,728 Member
      save your milk gallon containers..wash it out...fill with water. A gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs. Start there if you are just toning and trying to burn more calories. Of course like the others said with Body weight exercises. And basically just look for heavy things to lift. Also, check yard sales and flea markets. Can usually pick up dumbells and weights pretty cheap.
    • Posts: 2
      I do have some p90 vids maybe i can use those or do a few things from those in addition to my cardio...
    • Posts: 156
      I also suggest Nerd Fitness!
      http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2009/12/09/beginner-body-weight-workout-burn-fat-build-muscle/

      Pilates is also a good way to use body weight resistance.
    • Posts: 46 Member
      I have the same question. I do squats, push ups (modified) and sit ups but when I add it no calorie use shows
    • Posts: 405 Member
      Use large books for side/overhead/up from hips arm lifts when laying on floor. Use plastic water bottles filled with sand or gravel for hand size dumbbells. As mentioned before, look at thrift stores and garage sales for weights. See if local physical therapy clinics might give you discarded theraputic bands, clean them and find Youtube videos how to use.
    • Posts: 438 Member
      Buy this book: "You Are Your Own Gym". It's awesome, it covers everything, it gives you programs to follow, and it encourages you to design your own routine.
    • Posts: 88 Member
      There's an awesome website called BodBot where they give you workouts based on what you have available to you - home vs gym.
    • Posts: 46 Member
      BUT how do you log it to show caloric use. When you do not add in weight it comes back at 0 for caloric use
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