Any suggestions on at home workouts?
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alliemaeg89
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Short backstory: I started gaining weight at 19. I didn't even realize how much weight I had gained, or chose not to acknowledge it. I got pregnant at 21 with my first child, and had no choice but to acknowledge the weight gain. My starting weight at pregnancy was 235 lbs, and that was after losing weight with morning sickness that led me to go to the doctor to begin with.. I decided I needed to do something.
Fast forward 8 years and another child later and I've managed to lose 101 lbs with calorie counting and low intensity workouts (walks, or 30 mins every few days of low impact exercise like yoga or palates). Now that I've shed the majority of the pounds I had wanted to lose I want to tone up. Any ideas on at home workouts that don't require equipment? I'm looking into hiit workouts already so if you have had success or experience with that I'd love the input also! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Fast forward 8 years and another child later and I've managed to lose 101 lbs with calorie counting and low intensity workouts (walks, or 30 mins every few days of low impact exercise like yoga or palates). Now that I've shed the majority of the pounds I had wanted to lose I want to tone up. Any ideas on at home workouts that don't require equipment? I'm looking into hiit workouts already so if you have had success or experience with that I'd love the input also! Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
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Look up body weight workouts on You Tube. Or consider doing a workout app, and just stick with stuff that is body weight type stuff only.
Congratulations on your weight loss so far! That is fantastic!7 -
Search Jessica Smith and PahlaB, both do a variety of at home workouts.6
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Thanks y'all!! Greatly appreciated! I'm very quickly learning that unless I want to pay for a program, Google/ YouTube are my friend 😂.3
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I’m not a BB coach or anything but 21 Day fix worked wonders for me3
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I actually have a friend that was getting ready to start that lol. I'm gonna have to ask her to spam me with info on it lol. My biggest issue is discipline. I have two children and am home with the youngest when I'm not working, so it's hard to stay on track with all the "MOOOMMM [insert request, complaint, or random fact here]" lol.2
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I really like blogilates3
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alliemaeg89 wrote: »I actually have a friend that was getting ready to start that lol. I'm gonna have to ask her to spam me with info on it lol. My biggest issue is discipline. I have two children and am home with the youngest when I'm not working, so it's hard to stay on track with all the "MOOOMMM [insert request, complaint, or random fact here]" lol.
I downloaded a 7 minute workout app on my phone, and just squeezed those in whenever I can. Might be a good thing for when your days are hectic?2 -
These are both great bodyweight routines that incorporate progressive overload.
http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/start-bodyweight-basic-routine.html?m=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine2 -
Crafty_camper123 wrote: »alliemaeg89 wrote: »I actually have a friend that was getting ready to start that lol. I'm gonna have to ask her to spam me with info on it lol. My biggest issue is discipline. I have two children and am home with the youngest when I'm not working, so it's hard to stay on track with all the "MOOOMMM [insert request, complaint, or random fact here]" lol.
I downloaded a 7 minute workout app on my phone, and just squeezed those in whenever I can. Might be a good thing for when your days are hectic?0 -
MommyLifts3 wrote: »These are both great bodyweight routines that incorporate progressive overload.
http://www.startbodyweight.com/p/start-bodyweight-basic-routine.html?m=1
https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine
Awesome!! Thank you for the great resources!1 -
alliemaeg89 wrote: »Crafty_camper123 wrote: »alliemaeg89 wrote: »I actually have a friend that was getting ready to start that lol. I'm gonna have to ask her to spam me with info on it lol. My biggest issue is discipline. I have two children and am home with the youngest when I'm not working, so it's hard to stay on track with all the "MOOOMMM [insert request, complaint, or random fact here]" lol.
I downloaded a 7 minute workout app on my phone, and just squeezed those in whenever I can. Might be a good thing for when your days are hectic?
S Health Workout trainer for Samsung and 7 Minute Workout.
ETA: These have little videos of how to do the excersise too. It's kind of nice because you can pick something, play it and roll with it.2 -
Check out the gym cube app, lots of the workouts on there need little or no equipment 😊1
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There is some pretty great hiit workouts on YouTube that my little girls actually really like to watch and do with me. Also a new thing I started doing is boxing and danette may flat belly workouts. Intense! She's on YouTube and also will ship a DVD for a small shipping charge1
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Awesome! Thanks for all the feed back y'all!! It's super appreciated! I actually did my first hiit workout via YouTube yesterday and my youngest decided to add "weight " to my planks. Oh my gravy I'm going to have my work cut out for me lol. Upper body is killing me hahaha...1
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2nd 21 day fix, I'm not a coach or buy any beach body products, but I keep an annual subscription to on demand because it's really reasonable - 99 dollars per year.1
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I have seen a ton of workouts on pinterest that are no or minimal equipment. All free and all around the same intensity as some of my hitt classes at the gym.1
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Something else to try is the resistance bands. I ordered some for a friend who travels some for him to use if no gym close by him. I got a nice set from Amazon for $20.1
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Awesome thanks y'all! Free and cheap are my favorites 😁😂0
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I love Jillian Michaels - maybe 30 day shred to start with then ripped in 30 and work up to body shred x1
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