Strength training programs for newbie without much equipment

Pretty much ditto to all of this ^^

Anyone know anything??

You Are Your Own Gym by Mark Lauren. Excellent book, everything you need to know about body weight training. Only basic stuff around the house needed, like tables, chairs, towels; no "exercise equipment" needed.

www.nerdfitness.com

Lots of ideas on there.

I bought the Brazil Butt Lift dvd program and I love it.....you already have the dumbbells and you just need a set of 5lb ankle weights....it's a great starter program.....when that got too easy I invested in Chalean Extreme dvd program as well.....that's really good for strength training for the upper body and lower body but you will need heavier weights for that....in order to avoid having dumbbells of various sizes sitting around, I invested in a set of Bowflex Select Tech dumbbells which are all I will need now.....they were $400CDN though, so they aren't cheap.....but cheaper than a gym membership in the long run.....anyway, that works for me.....best of luck with your strength training.....muscles are awesome!!!

I would take a white board and list about 5 exercises, trying to concentrate the majority on your core. Then run through them like 20 reps on each, then 15, then 10, then 5. DO it as quickly as you can with good form to get some cadio going and run around the room after each completed set of the 5 exercises. That may make it feel like it more structure.

There's also Convict Conditioning:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ConvictConditioning

Book available, but optional.

I realize this is so uncool anymore, but do you have any kind of platform game (Wii, XBox, etc)? EA Sports has a "game" called Active (they also have Active 2) Personal Trainer. I'd suggest the Active 2 because it's wireless. In addition to the "game" it comes with a heart rate monitor that you wear on your inside upper forearm and a leg band that you wear on the opposite side from your HRM, and 2 different resistance bands (neither of which will kill you, but they DO work). You choose your trainer (a male or female, they look like real people - not stupid cartoony characters) and set your workout schedule. You have to work out 4 times a week - it doesn't allow for anything less than that. At the end of each workout it shows you how many calories you burned. Once a week you do a little fitness test so you can see how much your fitness has improved, which I found to very helpful in keeping me motivated. You follow a 12-week program. I found it to be fun, challenging, and very successful the last time I lost weight.

I'd second (or third or fourth or whatever) You Are Your Own Gym. Convict Conditioning would be worth a look as well.

If you're willing to make a few smallish purchases (like a set of adjustable dumbells and a few odds and ends), I'd also suggest Scooby's site:

http://scoobysworkshop.com/

There's a lot of great info there, and video demonstrations of different lifts. He also goes out of his way to demonstrate ways to do different weight routines without a full gym.

I started the 30 day shred today and was wondering, how do you log this in your exercise? :huh:

If you want to strengh train i'd say 5x5 by Mark Rippetoe, Stick to the basics and you'll get strong as hell!

There are lots of links in the bodyweight training group here to various programs. Check them out.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/402679-good-body-weight-resources

You could buy resistance bands. It won't be strength training in the traditional sense as the traditional strength exercises use a barbell and a few basic exercises such as squat, bench press, row, deadlift, overhead press.

You also increase the weight by increments each week and use a low rep range of 5 reps or fewer (not to muscle failure ), three to five sets for each exercise, and rest 3 to 5 minutes between each set. Work out three days a week with at least a day's rest between each workout.

You could replace bench press with push ups, rows for chinups or pullups or pulling/rowing exercise with bands, bodyweight squat or squat with resistance bands. Yet there is the problem of increasing the weight or resistance each week. You won't be doing strength training, but you'll get stronger.