Negosentro.com | 5 different ways to workout without leaving your house | With the continuation and exacerbation of the COVID-19 epidemic, many businesses, including gyms, have closed again, or have limited services. For the fitness enthusiast who doesn’t want to risk going into public for exercise, a home workout may be the best option. How, though, does one get a good exercise session at home? This article offers five ways that you can get a good workout without having to go outside at all.
#1: Try Body Weight Exercises
Your body is the most important tool you will ever have. Even if you don’t have much access to gym equipment, you can create a fantastic workout regimen with just your body. The best place to start? The humble push-up.
Long a staple of virtually every level of fitness, the push-up provides you a full-body workout in one simple-to-understand move. And, because so many variants of the push-up exist, you can even ramp up the intensity as you get stronger!
Besides the push-up, you can incorporate other major bodyweight exercises into your routine including squats, toe touches, lunges, planks, burpees, and pull-ups!
#2: Gamify your workouts
Getting into a workout routine is difficult if you’ve never managed to sustain a workout before. So, making a workout fun is going to be essential. And one of the best ways to make exercise fun is to turn it into a game.
Numerous apps can be used to record your activity and post them online. Sure, you could use Facebook to list your workouts online, but you run the risk of annoying your friends and family who aren’t ready to engage in a fitness program.
So, using a specific app to gauge how much working out you’ve done can serve as a great motivator to increase your reps and get your workout in for the day. Apps exist to cater to runners (Zombies, Run! and Runkeeper), superhero fans (Superhero Workout), coupon cutters (Nexercise), and even anime fans (Burn Your Fat with Me!!). These are only a few apps; if you look on whatever app store you use, you are likely to find a workout app that caters to you!
#3: Reuse that Milk Jug
If you don’t like bodyweight workouts, or you want to bring your workout game to the next level, you may want to consider investing in a barbell set, with numerous weight plates and a bench. But, if you’re not quite ready to take that plunge yet, you can use common household items to work as weights!
A milk jug works well for this. Once you’ve finished off that gallon of milk, rinse the jug out. Now, you have a weight that can be customized to fit your current fitness level; you can fill the jug as much or as little as you want with virtually any material you want. Water works well for this, as does sand, marbles, or any small item that you can fit into a milk jug.
#4: Use Youtube to make the Treadmill Less Boring
If you have a treadmill that you’ve been using as a coat rack, you may want to dust it off and give it a run. Numerous Youtube users have created virtual runs that take you through exotic locales.
Simply set your smartphone or laptop in a way that you can watch from the treadmill, queue up a Youtube treadmill tour video, and you can walk through Dublin, St. Petersburg, the Grand Canyon, even Disneyworld! It isn’t quite the same as actually being there, but it’s the best thing that can be managed while we wait for the end of the pandemic, especially if you’re a running enthusiast who is stuck indoors for the time being.
#5: Dance Like Nobody is Watching
Dancing is one of the most enjoyable ways to get in your daily fitness. And, like with the above treadmill tours, you can find dance workout videos online that you can use to get yourself in the mood.
Unlike some of the other tips above, you don’t need any extra tools besides a way to access the internet to get started dancing, some comfortable clothes, and water. And, because dancing is just enjoyable, you don’t have to dread getting ready for a workout; it serves as a great stress reliever, as well as a way to tone your body the way you want. Another added bonus; you improve your sense of rhythm, so if you ever hit the club when the world opens again, you will be that much more impressive on the dance floor!
