Pls recommend your at home strength training app/program!

I do a number of things. I do My Peak Challenge and DDPY yoga for at home work outs. DDPY requires a mat (a rug will do if that's all you have) and a yoga block is helpful. I highly recommend both programs.

slunburg wrote: »

Not sure how easy it would be to build muscle if the highest weights you have are 15lb...

I do an upper/lower split primarily compound exercises 4 days a week, but I have a full gym in my basement that has primarily commercial equipment in it. For example, I am currently doing 180lb leg press on lower day along with squats, deadlifts, and ab exercises. Upper day is bench press (only 50lbs sadly), incline bench press (even sadder at 30-40lbs), lat pulldown (90lbs) and row (100lbs)

Muscle can definitely be built with body weight.

There's a whole list of strength programs here that others have found helpful:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10332083/which-lifting-program-is-the-best-for-you/p1

Despite the title, it includes some beginner bodyweight programs that can be done at home with minimal/no equipment. Generally, a well-designed progressive program like those will be more effective as a starting point than what some random other internet idiot like me might do herself .

Bodyweight programs - though it may be surprising - can be progressive, at least for a time. There are various versions of the exercises that increase the strength challenge along the way to create progression, through the magic of applied physics. You may top out on progress for some body parts - probably will eventually - but these can be a good starting point for many people.

I'd also observe that although certain combinations of repetitions and resistance may be optimal for certain kinds of progress (i.e., strength, mass, endurance, whatever), you can to some extent use volume to create useful increased challenge, when using increased resistance isn't an option. More clearly: Light dumbbells may not be ideal long term, but for a while you can make some progress by increasing reps/sets at the same weight, even though it may not be the absolute most perfect route to choose if all routes were equally practical and available to you. No need to let the perfect be the enemy of progress.

Best wishes!

I follow Sydney Cummings on YouTube. New workout uploaded every day at 5am. Workouts range from 30-60 min, full body, upper push, upper pull, legs, glutes abs, cardio, agility, sometimes power yoga/pilates...she covers it all.

That's why I like Sydney so much. She tells you exactly what to do and how to do it. She does the workout with you, just follow her lead. She has a very balanced program. And she only uses dumbbells, body weight, and sometimes a glute resistance band(optional).

T25 is more cardio, unless you also do beta and gamma...and those DVD sets are very expensive.

I'm a total fan of the Reddit recommended routine. It's progressive and not aimed at some odd targets like handstand pushups (convict conditioning goes a bit in that direction). Plus there's a very supportive community.

I like programs because it provides a bit of structure for me. Fit body boot camp has a 28 day at home workout. You have access to quite a lot of videos to work out to every day. After finishing that I have started Heather Robertson's 12 week program on youtube. Includes strength and cardio/HIIT

slunburg wrote: »

debrakgoogins wrote: »

slunburg wrote: »

Minimally, sure. I’m not saying you need to lift a ton; and it depends on goals. If you only do body weight though, you can’t increase the weight. I’m not a fan of the body weight method, but whatever works for you.

Convict fitness is strictly progressive body weight exercises and builds some serious muscle.

I guess you don’t watch those prison shows then. Prisons have weight sets in the yard and prisoners come up with ingenuous ways to create their own weights to use in their cells. Sorry but I watch a bunch of those on tv, so I know they DO have weights. Nice try though!

"Convict Conditioning" is the formal name of well-known bodyweight conditioning method, as described in a book of the same title. It's designed to be done in relatively small space, with little or no equipment. I'm quite sure this program/book is what people are referring to, in posts above.

Whether or how well it works has little to do with whether lots of people in prisons do it, or not . . . or whether it appears on TV prison shows. It's a marketing-oriented name, like most programs use. 🙄

ETA: Author does claim to have developed the program while in prison. Functionally, he appears to be very strong. IMO, he is quite defined, but not all that massive, as far as one can see from photo/video.