Has anyone lost weight with exercising at home?

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  • tramaine_21
    tramaine_21 Posts: 348 Member
    Go for a nice long walk. Walking is free! Let nature be your gym!
  • mutantspicy
    mutantspicy Posts: 624 Member
    I'm a home workout warrior. I've been exclusively building my home gym for several years. I both lost and gained weight using my home gym. I've added gear to my gym as I progressed with my fitness level.

    As others have said. Get your diet in order and count calories to lose weight. Use this website it works. You do not actually need to workout. Though I recommend it, it will help your brain and eventually will reshape your muscle structure.

    If you do decide work out at home. I would not spend any money on gear at first with the exception of cheap stuff like resistance bands or step ups. Start out with basic calisthenics like PE class moves you did in school. If you push too hard at first you will be sore all the time and burn out and give up. As you improve you can Eventually get into aerobics, body weight circuits, push ups/pull ups, etc then onto weight lifting and plyo, and athletic training. Its a progression and it takes your entire life to get good at it. Not unlike playing a musical instrument, you will always have new things to learn.
  • kewynne
    kewynne Posts: 1 Member
    Yup, I run outside. I do have a treadmill for the winter inside.
  • afence23
    afence23 Posts: 9 Member
    The Lumowell workouts on Amazon are great for at home workouts!
  • salleewins
    salleewins Posts: 2,308 Member
    Yes.
  • themexicanbigfoot
    themexicanbigfoot Posts: 170 Member
    I lost weight without working out at all. I logged all my food, then I started walking on the treadmill, then I joined a gym.
  • dtelsah
    dtelsah Posts: 584 Member
    Yes. ~90 lbs with a recumbent stationary bike, calisthenics and lots of walking. If I had to trudge out to a gym at 5am in the winter it would have never happened.
  • Lady_B1215
    Lady_B1215 Posts: 11 Member
    I have only ever worked out at home, exercise paired with clean eating and calorie counting has brought me down 40lbs, it can be done without a gym!
  • Basilin
    Basilin Posts: 360 Member
    edited September 2018
    Jkirch2015 wrote: »
    I work from home and also workout at home. I use the fitnessblender.com website. Hundreds of free videos to pick and choose as you please. When it’s break time, I stand up from my desk, do a workout, then go right back to it after a quick rinse-off. Been doing it for 2-3 years and I’m more toned than I have ever been, even with a desk job (was a bedside nurse before then).

    Good luck to you!

    Yes, it is doable at home!

    I second Fitness Blender. Kelli and Daniel (a husband and wife team of fitness trainers) produce quality videos specific for at home workouts tailored to pretty much every fitness level, with a huge selection of workouts ranging from 8 minutes to almost 2 hours, using a variety of styles.

    At home, I have completely changed my fitness level just with this website. All the other home workout programs I tried were not instructive on how to exercise as a beginner, where I actually learned how to get in a good habit and exercise effectively on my own from Fitness Blender.

    I found Fitness Blender because they had easy to follow along, low impact cardio workouts that were great for when I lived in an upper story apartment. 🤫 Since then, I have never gone back to whatever flailing attempts at gyms and dvds and online video subscriptions that I had done before.

    Also, it is awful advice to say that exercise doesn’t need to be a component in weight loss. Yes, a healthy diet and reduced calories are critical, but I have done the diet-only route before and it pales in comparison to the joy and added motivation you get out of improving overall fitness while losing weight.
  • Running2Fit
    Running2Fit Posts: 702 Member
    I lost 23 lbs all at home last year using Daily Burn. There are also tons of free workout videos on YouTube. You definitely don’t need a gym membership.
  • indigo1416
    indigo1416 Posts: 1 Member
    I haven’t used a gym many times since having kids. Just not s realistic lifestyle for me right now. Have definitely lost weight exercising at home! When I’m getting back in shape I start with walking as much as I can. Especially when the kids were in strollers :)

    I’ve always used Kathy Smith videos too. She’s not a huge name but her videos are realistic and interesting and she’s motivating. I only did 20 min at a time and she had a variety of videos so I can match my mood and energy level.

    And I just have a few pairs of hand weights.

    That’s all I’ve ever done since having kids !
  • starkspot
    starkspot Posts: 15 Member
    Yes, yes, and yes. I have neither the time nor the desire to go to a gym. I knew if I couldn’t workout at home, and eat real people food (yes, employing a calorie deficit), I wouldn’t do it. I’ve lost over 100lbs in just over a year - AT HOME.
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