Best stay at home strength training?

Along with YAYOG, I've heard good things about convict conditioning, on here. No experience with it though.

30DS is cardio, not strength training, and you'd quickly get bored as it's the same workout every time.

YAYOG has an app you can follow and it's a progressive strength training program.

Start Bodyweight has a good basic routine. You can take it an build off of it.

http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/start-bodyweight-basic-routine.html

Checkout the Rushfit program by George St Pierre. I think its about $60.00 on Amazon and uses minimal equipment, most of its bodyweight.

Also you can do a lot of kettlebell workouts with just one or two bells.

I recently found this website with a husband and wife duo that have all kinds of workouts posted, many that don't require any or minimal equipment. They have full length warm-up and cool down videos and then actual workouts too that start at 20min and up. I've done two of their workouts so far and they're great. Clear demonstrations/instructions, built in timers, different levels too.

http://www.fitnessblender.com/

over quite some time I figured out some routines to do at home and in hotels (road warrior). these days it's less travel. Plus I don't need a bunch of equipment.

* do lunges every hour as you walk between rooms.

* keep a couple different size dumbbells, a pair in different rooms you hangout. grab a 5" set everytime you're in that room.

* if you spend an hour in front of TV, then do it while either walking back and forth or walk high-step standing in one spot, and grab some long sets of Abdominal work ontop of your Bosu ball. Or, do upper body strength training with those dumbbells. Biceps get really strong when you do an hour of reps! You can do all upper body work too, sitting in front of the tube!

* I'd recommend adding yoga strength training. you can do quick 5" sets, 20" or the full hour. there's tons of youtubes available too. maybe get a small book on it too. after 30 years of doing hatha yoga, I found the Bikram book which is very good instruction. Bikrams Beginners Yoga, by Choudhoury. Plus after scouring youtubes I found a great series illustrating the same Bikram poses, helpful as you start out. The book will then become a quick reference tool.

* put a couple of calendar appointments to exercise and drink water, with alarm reminders, on your phone or computer (the one that stays on and with you the most). Or just link good habits onto other routine habits, like everytime you use the bathroom, add on a set of 20 squats or jumping jacks or 5" of yoga.

* keep a tool in every room you hang out. it serves as a reminder to do a quick set of exercise. You'll find yourself grabbing the tool and just doing it. My faves are: dumbbells in home office, living room with bosu ball and dumbbells, yoga mats in front door hallway and 2nd bedroom where I read or do yoga, exercise ball, yoga bricks & strap, and two videos in bedroom... it's not messy as they are small tools.

* homemade dumbbells: wash 2 empty gallon sized milk jugs. add water. instant 8# weight for free.

Get some adjustable or plate loadable dumbbells. muscleandstrength.com and bodybuilding.com have some good programs. I also second the recommendation of fitnessblender.com for their videos. The have a free 5 days program up right now, and you can by 8 week programs (basically them putting their videos together into a program to follow) for pretty cheap.

I absolutely love love love the routine Ultimate Body Workout published by men's health.

This is not a sissy workout either! I can honestly say this is for serious body strengthening and fat burning.
I find that the men's routines are much better for muscle strengthening, than their women's workouts.
Their women's workouts are great cardio, where I need to build muscle that I've lost with aging. I've always been a strong well balanced girl that doesn't look like a guy.... any woman can benefit big time from this workout.

http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/ultimate-body-weight-workout

they publish a new version annually. I found it in book format back in 2008. Now that I'm familiar with the routine sequence, I just keep a few cliff notes in my iphone 'notes' app to take to the gym.

I also recommend YAYOG. The phone app is (I think) $3, and there are books (author Mark Lauren) that are pretty darn cheap, too (Kindle editions also available). Good old fashioned calisthenics do the job just fine (5 months of progress pics in my profile--never stepped one foot in a gym, either ). Fitness blender on You Tube is also great for a variety of workout ideas (and FREE!).

Bonus, toddlers and young kids (don't know how old your little one is) love to do pushups and squats and jumping jacks along side mommy and daddy, too. It's fun!

Great thread! I'll be looking into some of these myself.

I recently started with New Rules of Lifting for Life. For younger folks, the original New Rules of Lifting or the newer NROL - Supercharged would be excellent. Even if you don't adopt their programs, the books are worth reading both for theory and for technique. You can probably find them at your local public library. I did.

Have you heard of Fitness Blender? Just kidding. I also like that one, and BeFit on youtube, as well. They have tons of videos. If you're worried about form, you can find videos for that on youtube, also, like the "So You Think You Can Squat" series. Bodybuilding.com has form videos, too. Just short clips with a written guide, like this one. http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/detail/view/name/front-squats-with-two-kettlebells

ETA All Pro is a good one for strength training without the use of machines, if you have dumbbells. I think New Rules of Lifting, StrongLifts and Starting Strength were mentioned already.

Came here just to say that I LOVE LOVE LOVE Fitness Blender. Good for dudes, good for ladies and LOTS of variety.

30DS is cardio, not strength training, and you'd quickly get bored as it's the same workout every time.

YAYOG has an app you can follow and it's a progressive strength training program.

you apparently didn't do it...

I did level 1 for a few days and found it repetitive and got bored. I'd class it as cardio/circuit training and not strength training.

30DS is cardio, not strength training, and you'd quickly get bored as it's the same workout every time.

YAYOG has an app you can follow and it's a progressive strength training program.

you apparently didn't do it...

I did level 1 for a few days and found it repetitive and got bored. I'd class it as cardio/circuit training and not strength training.

Right so you didn't really do it so part of what you wrote wasn't accurate...as it does have resistence training in it with bodyweight work being done and other resistence training done with the cardio if you so choose. And there are different workouts with different moves and different exertion levels....too bad you got bored level 2 kicks butt if you aren't used to it.

It is circut training yes...with resistence training included

As for Strength training it's a good start for those who feel they can't lift weights yet doing a progressive load lifting program as I went from only being able to do a few modified push ups in that to doing at least 30 non modified when I was done it/