Sucess when exercising at Home!

I do not have any progress or success pictures because I want to wait until I reach my goal. I am a mother of a 6 year old girl and 12 year old boy. The only way I work out is at home. I either use DVD's, the Wii, walk or ride bikes. My favorite exercise right now is the dance games on the Wii, we have Just Dance 2 and 3 and the Michael Jackson Experience. As for your child distracting you.... have him exercise with you. My kids do the Wii exercises, walk or ride bikes with me.

I have lost 20.6 lbs and my goal is to lose 50. I started December 26, 2011. I have plateued a bit lately and there are some personal family things going on right now that I am trying to get through, so I am happy to just be maintaining. As soon as these things pass, I will get right back to losing (or trying to).

I have never been to the gym. I only exercise at home. So I know you can have success working out at home too.

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I have only exercised at home, and done even have a gym near me if I wanted to join. I also use dvd's and have started a nice little collection. I also use youtube for videosuse me wii and a bunch of games I have collected for it. I I walk/run/jog outside sometimes. i just do what I feel like doing everyday, it works better for me to get to chose its more motivating. I started with 5lb hand weights. Just recently I borrowed some heavier wieghts but havent used them yet. I dont have any pictures I never took any, but I have lost 74 pounds and going all from hom with my 1 year old who is now 2. So yes it can be done at home without a gym!

Good luck!

I workout at home aswell I do the 30 DS and Leslie Sansone walking DVD. Also sometimes I'll go outside with my 2 yr old walking up and down the road or run around the yard when it isn't wet out .

I lost every pound of my baby weight working out at home and most importantly, counting calories!!!!

I only went to the gym later on when my kids were in school and I wanted to start lifting heavy and needed the extra weights. I did fine losing weight with a small home gym (10 pound dumbbells, a 12-lb medicine ball, a 15-lb kettlebell, and a barbell with a few weights (total 65lbs if all the weights were on). I also had an elliptical trainer at home, which was helpful in shedding those initial pounds. I still work out at home once in a while if I can't make it into the gym!

I think it depends on what your goals are i.e. what you define as "success." If the main purpose of your exercising is to burn a few calories then there are lots of ways to do it and you certainly don't need to go to a gym. Exercise DVD's or Zumba on the Wii or just dancing around to the radio will all get the job done. Mix it up and do whatever you enjoy doing that gets your heart rate up.

If, on the other hand, you want to develop a very cut muscular body you probably need to go to the gym so you have access to heavy weights.

If you are somewhere in the middle -- i.e. would like to look "toned" and be able to some basic things like run up a flights of stairs without passing out there are lots of very challenging exercises you can do at home with little or no equipment. The key is to be consistent and that you continually challenge yourself.

The real question is ... what will best motivate you to be consistent and challenge yourself? Lately my answer to this has been dance class. I take ballet twice a week and my desire to be better in class is enough to motivate me to work out at home on the days I don't have class. Before that I was meeting with a personal trainer who came to my home once a week. (This is one of the reasons I know you can challenge yourself at home -- you wouldn't believe how tough those workouts were!) That also served to motivate me to work out in the off times, but got too expensive.

You need to find something you like well enough to stick with. If you can't stick with it you won't have success no matter where it is.