No gym access...how do I do strength training at home?

Do Pilates! If you search on youtube 'POP Pilates' then a bunch of videos should come up. The girl that does them is Cassey. I would also just find a bunch of dumbbell and resistance band exercises to do.

Try resistance bands.There are many exercise on youtube.

I train in a teeny-tiny space- lots of push=ups, crunches, planks (and side planks), yoga, sit-ups, burpees, mountain climbers, lunges (and jumping lunges), side step ups (onto a kitchen chair), etc... and if you can get your hands on a kettlebell or some dumbbells then you can do snatch, curls (bicep and tricep), shoulder press- and those small weights don't take up much space!

Good luck!

Youtube has tons of workout videos! If you have weights you can use those or any workouts that require them you can replace the weights with water bottles or even milk jugs filled with water if you want something heavier. Of course you can always do push-ups and other body weight exercises. Also get some Pilates or Yoga DVD's or get them at the library and change up what you do every week.

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My workout bible in website form:
bodyrock.tv
It took me a while to get over Zuzana's skimpy attire, but the workouts are solid, challenging, and fast (usually 15-30 minutes tops).

You can try P90 or P90x... the program is a little pricey, but you def. get results. You also dont need much room. and then only equipment I have are a set of dumbbells. You need about a space as big as 7x7, if that, at most. If you're not interested in getting this there are plenty of workouts on the internet. OR.. I'm not sure if you have cable (or what kind if you do) but Verizon Fios has a BUNCH of free workouts on demand.. they are free and theres probly 100s to choose from, it was great when I wasnt doing P90X.. Hope this helps

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The list is all about how creative you can be. Get some resistance bands for starters. You can do push-ups (wide, close, V, claps, one-arm), planks, side-planks, sit-ups, bicycles, leg-lifts, dips on chair or using the side of your bathtub, jumping jacks, sprints in place, and when all else fails...

Get you a Wii (Wii fit, Dance, or Michael Jackson Experience). That MJ is nothing to play with!!

Good luck!!

Z

the latest "prevention" magazine has 4 weeks of exercises you can do at home. its a 4 week weight loss plan...alternating cardio, rest, strength training for all 7 days of a week. im finishing week 1 and i really like it. look for the may 2011 edition. you might also be able to find it online. they suggest consuming 1600 calories a day while you're doing their exercise plan. check it out!

I loved ChaLean Extreme!!! It was the first time I enjoyed strength training. Heavy weights, but low reps. Made me feel strong.


Carol

If you have an iPhone, Android phone (or even pen and paper) there's the 100 pushups-style programs you can use. They exist for a bunch of exercises - dips, sit-ups, squats, etc.

The idea is interval training - you do short sets of the exercise with a break in-between. It takes something like half an hour a week to do one of the apps' programs, with the goal being that by the end of a period of time (six weeks? nine weeks? can't remember) you can do what the name says: 100 pushups, say.

Visit http://hundredpushups.com/ to check it out that's the pushups site, and there's links down the side to the dips, sit-ups, pull-ups and squats ones. Each one has a link to an app (cheap - it logs your data, etc) and if you don't have one of those phones, a pen-and-paper schedule you can use.

I've found them to be fun. Not necessarily easy, but not supremely difficult either. And you need a minimum of equipment, and can do them all at home. Bodyweight exercises are cool.

Ugh. She really creeps me out! Her skimpy attire, her orgasm like moaning and grunting during her workouts...... I agree that she has some really great workouts but I can't get past the sexxing up of her routines. Although, I have caught dh watching them...... (eyeroll)

I really don't feel she is sexing anything up! And the grunting I find to be just a mark of how hard she is working. I don't think I've ever seen any workout video where the presenter actually gets out of breath, so to see/hear her work up a sweat and react like a normal human being is actually quite refreshing IMO!

I like that her outfits are a bit on the skimpy side because I can see exactly what is happening and where. I can see which muscles are being worked, which I find very helpful. And let's face it, she's got an amazing body - not in a sexual kind of way, but in terms of peak performance! It's the same kind of fascination I feel when I watch gymnasts, and the perfect control they have over their movements. The human body is a truly awesome machine!

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