Home workout buddies to share ideas and help keep motivated

Did 40 mins of jogging in place, burned 300 cal.
Was having a emmotionaly low day, so managing even this much was a big deal.

Idk...I never really thought about it...use an area rug? My workout rooms are carpeted.

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Looking for your thoughts/ideas on how to help keep the carpeting from getting 'funky' from home workouts. My place doesn't have a large non-carpeted surface to workout...

I have put down a towel under myself for some exercises that aren't super mobile. Other stuff I just keep a hand towel nearby and wipe my self off as needed so I don't soak the floor

Yesterday I did Cize "turn it on" and some PiYo core.

This looks like an active group. I used to have a nice, well-equiped home gym. Now I live in a small apartment so I make do.

I've been doing some exercise DVDs or YouTube. I have a variety of DVDs, but right now I'm really liking my Tracy Anderson ones and I want to buy some more. I usually do either a 25 or 55 minute Mat workout. A few times a week, I do beginner dance cardio for 15-30 minutes. This is quite comical as I am completely uncoordinated with no sense of rhythm whatsoever. I've been attempting to progress to the Perfect Design Series, but I'm not strong enough yet. I also walk about 3 miles most days at varying paces. If I don't do a dance video, I walk faster. If I do the DVD, I just enjoy the stroll. I'm fortunate to have a beach to walk on.

After several years with little exercise, I'm just starting over again. It'll take me a while to regain some strength, balance and flexibility, but so far, I'm quite impressed with my progress. I feel much stronger and I'm noticeably smaller. I do prefer sweating and panting and tripping over my own feet in my living room to doing it in public at the gym. And I have been known to curse loudly at the television.

Someone mentioned issues with their carpet. I'm using a yoga mat, but still, my wool area rug in the living room is suffering. My shoes seem to be pulling a lot of balls of fibers from it. That can't be good. I may have to get a larger mat to cover it. I have apartment carpet under the area rug...maybe I should just roll up the nice rug and make the cheap carpet suffer.

For those of you who don't have a heart rate monitor or similar, how do you log your exercise DVDs on MFP? So many of them seem to be a combo of strength and cardio.

I have been logging it as Pilates since I supposed they may have a similar burn. I choose dance for the dance ones. I wear the shoes because there's a lot of standing on one foot while working the other leg and I feel like my arches need the support.

I'm extremely impressed with how much activity some of you get.

Hi I'm new to this group. I've got dvds, Wii and Dance dvds, exercise ball, weights, kettle bells and a treadmill. I like the 30 day challenges you find online. I need to get motivated. But have heard that push yourself to do an action, and motivation will follow. Here's to hoping it works. I also have a nice walking path nearby. I have to be careful due to neck surgery recovery. I know exercise will help with my stress and sleep... I've got to start sooner rather than later. Any suggestions for getting out of a slump?

Good morning, was busy this weekend working on the yard. Mowed and chopped down some large hedges on Saturday for about 1hr of work.

Sunday mowed the other half of the yard, used the weed eater around the fence and front walk and then chopped and hauled off more small trees/large hedges.

This past weekend was quite successful in the realm of yard work.
Saturday: Spent about an hour mowing the back yard and cutting down some large hedges and hauling them off.
Sunday: 1.5hrs I mowed the front, edged the entire front and around the fence in the back with the weed eater and then we chopped down some more large hedges (5'4" and higher cause they were at least my height!!) but my hubby did the cutting and I did the hauling!
Monday: Had a cook out with friends and played some frisbee while the kids swung and ran around
Tuesday: I went for a 3mi bike ride
Today: strength training day. I did:
5min warm up on stepper
3 x 8 Bench Press 25# band
1 x 10 Cross-over 20# band
3 x 10 Rows 20# band
1 x 15 Back Flyes 20# band
3 x 15 Squats 15# band
2 x 10 Curls 15# band
2 x 8 Skull-Crushers 25# band
2 x 10 Triceps Extensions 15# band
2 x 8 Shoulder Press 15# band
2 x 8 Lateral Raises 15# band
1 x 10 Up-right Rows 15# band
3 x 8 Good-Mornings 15# band
3 x 10 Calf Raises 15# band
3 x 20 Crunches non-weighted

I live in a tiny town with no gym and a teeny apartment smaller than your average hotel room (no room for a home gym or much equipment) so home bodyweight workouts are my go-to. I have a set of 5 lb weights, a 10 lb kettlebell and 15 lb weight. I do youtube workout videos 4-6 days a week. I mix it up between cardio, kettlebell, tabata and HIIT workouts.

_Christine Salus
-fitness blender
-HASfit.

They all have lots of variety of lengths, intensities and focuses. So lots to choose from.

Someone mentioned tiny space. My apartment is very small but I manage to do all Kelly Coffey-Meyer's workouts (have a bit trouble with the older cardio workouts as they require a bit more space) in my extremely tiny space. And I got dumbbells, a barbell, a step bench (when not in use, it's under my bed), weighted gloves, resistance band, stability ball.

T25 core focus takes almost no space!

I lost 42 pounds by just working out at home. I am a high school senior and I have barely any time to do the YouTube workouts. I usually do HIIT workouts because they are short and effective and mcro-monitor what I eat. Blogilates, fitness blender, fitness Marshall etc have great workouts to squeeze in before I leave for school at 6:30 am.