What Are Your Favorite At Home Exercises?

Is getting up from the couch to get a beer considered an exercise, if so that my favorite!

Seriously, my favorite excercises at home are:

- shadow boxing
- Walter Walking/Running
- Kinect

P90x is great, a stationary Bike, Treadmill, and recently bought some boxing equipment and started boxing, my husband holds punching mitts and coaches me (hes incredable btw for helping me so much) but its an amazing full body workout and a total calorie burner. Plus being a girl and learning to Box FUUUN : )

Any of the Jillian Michaels DVD's. OH and even the Kim Kardashian one. (shhh don't tell anyone)

P90X!!

I LOVE Michael Jackson the Experience for the Wii. It's more fun than exercise but I burn quite a few calories an hour, about 350, sometimes more depending on the songs I decide to dance to. I have Just Dance for the Wii as well and it's fun but it is a great workout.

If you have someone at home who can hold the pads then you can get a really good Boxing workout. A few that I use when my wife and I train at home:

- Ten Punches: where you do ten punches medium height, then ten punches low, then ten punches up high. Do three sets of each.

- Ten Punches with Exercise: Ten punches then squat 10. Ten punches then ten lunges. Ten Punches then ten burpies.

- 21: You start with one punch each hand, then two punches each hand, then three punches each hand............ working your way up to 21 punches each hand. This is brutal.

- Minute Jabs/Minute Cross: Do a minute of jabbing with your lead hand (pulling back into defensive position -keeping your hand up between punches). Then a minute of crosses with the other hand. The repetition with the same hand is hard work but great for building strength and speed.

- Situps with punch: Ten situps with your partner holding the pads so that you Jab/Cross when you rise. You can also do a situp with a twist adding a left and right hook on at the end.

Pressups with Ball - In your normal pressup position, but put a soccer ball (or medicine ball) under one hand and complete ten pressups, then switch hands. This varies the normal pressup slightly and forces you to go deeper on one arm than you would via a normal pressup. You can also take this further by putting the ball in your centre and placing both hands on it and doing a pressup, works a different range of muscles but helps with core strength and balance.

- Punches with Weights: Get a small dumbbell (3-4kg) and do a minutes worth of jabs/crosses remembering to hold your form and to keep your technique sharp (Extending and twisting the arm, moving the body from the core, bringing hands back into defensive positions, keeping the hands up). The resistance for the weights are great for building power in your punches.

- Numbered Combos: Ive also given each punch a number (1 Jab, 2 Cross, 3 Hook, 4 Uppercut, 5 Slip, 6 Duck) and get my 12 year old daughter to call out random numbers (while she watches telly!) that I use when shadow boxing!

I hope the above helps, Id been keen to draw on any other exercises people use at home when boxing.

I like the Leslie Sansone walking DVD's. She herself is a little annoying, but the workout is good.

Jumping/skipping rope.

I live in an apartment, so I don't have a whole lot of room. I've tried doing some dance DVDs, but kept running into my furniture. I never would have thought skipping rope would take less room, but it does! :laugh: Admittedly the rope tends to hit off the ceiling, but not badly enough to mess with timing.

Insanity

P90X hands down!

Cameron Shayne - Budokon for Beginners

i love doing a crossfit style workout on the roof of our appartment block.
nice and sturdy clothes line for pullups!
so ususally pullups/situps/pushups/ jump rope/air squats etc.
Weather never really too much of an issue here

(Sydney - Aus)

Kathy Smith kettlebell weights dvd- its a great workout
shape -bootcamp dvd

squats
yoga
a mini circuit: crunches, pushups, squats, jumping jacks, lunges, something for the obliques