If you are a busy person and you do not have much time to go the gym and stay there for 1-2 hours, then it is not a problem. You can workout in your own home anytime you want.

Some people put in their money to costly exercise equipments like treadmills, stair climbers, cycles and a lot more. Naturally, eagerness is very high only in the beginning. You will start putting your expensive equipments in the storage room or in the garage when your eagerness declines. There are instances when some people use just one exercise machine at home, so the tendency is the exerciser is not receiving the complete health benefits that he or she can get from exercising. According to some studies, if you want to do a correct and balance fitness program that will tone your muscles, burn fat and will help you prevent from different diseases, you should do stretching, weight training and cardiovascular exercise.

You might be thinking how it is possible to have a home gym environment. There are a lot of things you can do so that the enthusiasm you have won’t fade away. All the negatives can become positive when you start making a good home fitness place. Variety is the secret for you to enjoy the fitness place in your house.

You should know first different ways on how to get fit: Free weights, walking, jogging, running, bicycle workout and a lot more. Then you can already start from this.

You can still do cardiovascular exercise without buying expensive treadmills and stationary bikes. If you have a pool at home, swimming is a great cardiovascular exercise. You can also follow an exercise video at home. If you don’t have free and big space in your house, you can easily go out of your village and start walking or jogging for a couple of minutes.
For your strength exercises, you can always choose free weights. There are a lot of dumbbells, wrist and ankle weights available in the market. You can also use jump ropes, resistance bands and exercise videos. Exercising with mirror and music will help you maintain your shape and enjoy what you are doing.

Variety is the key for you to keep your interest with working out at home. You don’t have to spend so much money. You don’t need to have huge spaces and you don’t need those very luxurious gym equipments. All you need to do is to plan everything in your house so that you can already start getting fit.  And you will just suddenly realize how inexpensive it is when it comes to financial and spatial aspects.

Being fashionable is not exactly referred to as a behavior of necessity.  People like you can live without being too much fashionable.  In fact, you might even save more money if you won’t buy fashionable clothing and accessories so much. And yet, being fit to become fashionable somehow makes it to the top of the list of priorities for the average person.  Why is this, exactly?

Well, for one thing, if you are fit and fashionable, then you are cool and healthy. Plus, not many people attain that good body structure and healthy well-being in order to make a strong fashion statement.  Those who are too young to wear fashionable clothes but practice a healthy lifestyle are already in the right track.  Those too old and are putting their health at risk by engaging in unhealthy lifestyles, no matter how beautiful they may look, will ultimately suffer in the end.  In short, the combination of being healthy and fashionable has a mass appeal.  They carry an image with them; an image of a person with a comfortable and healthy lifestyle.
If you are both healthy and fashionable, then you are able to earn the respect and confidence of your colleagues because of your fantastic physique and excellent fashion sense. Thus, you are able to encourage others to become healthy and fashionable themselves and improve their self-esteem along the process through the establishment of smart and achievable health goals and objectives.

Again, health is still the most treasured and sought-after wealth. What you do to yourself is related to the condition of your health. Accordingly, you must protect and preserve your well-being. Besides, money and other miscellaneous earthly desires cannot totally bring back the perfection of your body mechanism. In general, health among individuals should not only be based on physical wellness or in the absence of diseases, rather mental, social, intellectual and other miscellaneous determinants of health should also be considered.

Here is an excelent article by Ted for a home workout routine. Feel free to check out his website below: No Gym, No Cardio-Equipment, No Running…No Problem When trying to burn fat, most of us think of cardio-activities such as …road running, or gym-based activities such as stationary cycling, treadmills, rowing machines. In the battle to burn fat, gym training in some form is usually seen as a pre-requisite, and if we don’t want to go to gym, we sometimes opt for home versions of cardio machines and other exercise equipment in the hope that we will burn fat whilst staying at home. In most cases, home-based fat burning efforts usually don’t succeed. This is mostly due to a lack of motivation as there is almost always something else to do that can distract us when at home. Also, there is no-one around to motivate us. At least when you go to the gym, you’re making a concerted effort to go to a place that is designed purely for exercise, and is also full of other people who are training. The home, although a convenient exercise location, is sadly also not usually associated with hard exercise. But, if we are to succeed in burning fat and getting in shape at home, then we need to put some rules in place, namely:

1) Consistent Time

Make sure that you set aside 3-4 times a week for exercise. Don’t rely on deciding spontaneously to exercise. Plan your exercise times and be strict.

2) Same Place

Create a "workout space" where you know you will train. For variety, you can change this area every now and again, but get used to a fixed place where you know you will train.

3) Water/Towel/Clock

Make sure you have water, towels, and a clock close by so that you don’t need to keep going to other areas in the house and be potentially distracted

4) No phones, TV or Family

This is your exercise time – so don’t be interrupted

The Routine: Understanding Basics

So how can we lose fat and get fit and strong without any expensive equipment and without "pounding the pavement" or doing some other traditional aerobic activity? The key here is to first understand that all exercise is based on a single fundamental principle…the contracting of muscles. If we contract our muscles continuously for a minimum of 12 minutes, it is an aerobic activity – so if we exercise on a stationary cycle for 12 minutes without resting it is an aerobic activity. Similarly, if we perform a circuit of several exercises without resting, and continue the circuit for a minimum of 12 minutes, it is also an aerobic activity. It is important then to understand that "aerobic exercise" refers to ANY exercise activity that is sustained for a minimum of 12 minutes, not just traditional aerobic activities such as running, cycling, rowing etc. Circuit training – i.e. performing a series of exercises in succession, without any rest inbetween – is extremely demanding on the aerobic system and is also a form of PHA training (Peripheral Heart Action). Where traditional aerobic activities such as running or cycling place an emphasis on just one part of the body (i.e. the legs), full-body circuit- training continually distributes the load across all the muscle groups. If there is no rest between each exercise and the circuit of exercises is sustained for a minimum of 12 minutes, the heart is constantly pumping blood to various areas of the body which dramatically improves circulation and aerobic performance. This is PHA training.

The Best Exercises

These are the best Exercises that can be performed anywhere – at home, in a hotel room - all you need is 3 chairs, a few towels or cloths, a door, and a broomstick. Each exercise uses several muscles at a time, thus placing considerable demand on the body’s energy supply.

1. Pushups (Traditional, with both feet on ground)
2. One-legged Pushups (traditional, but with one foot elevated off the ground)
3. Elevated Pushups (traditional pushups with feet elevated on a chair)
4. Dip Pushups (traditional pushups between 3 chairs - with each hand on a chair, and feet elevated onto another chair)
5. Door Chins (Wedge a thin book under a door to support door and stop door swinging. Place towel along top edge of door to rest hands and do chins on door, pulling yourself up along face of door – hands shoulder width apart)
6. Chair Chins (Face the backs of 2 chairs towards each other with a small towel draped over the back of each chair. Place a broomstick across both chair backs on each towel. Lie on ground between 2 chairs and hold broomstick, each hand holding close to each chairback. Elevate your feet onto a 3rd chair in front of you. Pull yourself up to horizontal position).
7. Crunches (feet on floor, knees bent, curling yourself up, hands next to sides)
8. Wallsit (stand upright, back against a wall, slide down wall with back touching until in a sitting position. Hold position, pushing back continuously into wall –slide back up and repeat)
9. Squats (Traditional squats, squatting down until top of legs are parallel to ground)
10. Chair Hamstrings (lie on floor, knees bent with feet on placed on seat part of chair. Push feet into seat using hamstrings and lift butt off floor as high as possible. Hold and lower)
11. Burpees (traditional burpee: 1 Repetition: From standing, drop to haunches, shoot legs out (to pushup position), shoot legs back (to haunched position), go back to standing.
12. Handstand Pushup (Optional Exercise; Very Advanved). Facing a wall, go into a handstand with feet touching wall (you should ideally be as close to the wall in the handstand position and also as straight as possible). Lower your head to the floor, but don’t let it touch and push up again. This is a very tough exercise if you are not used to it. At first, just maintain handstand position until arms are stronger to perform pushup.

The Routine

This routine is not easy, so if you are a beginner or intermediate – please start slowly and take longer rests between exercises. Also, some of these exercises take some getting used to, so it is recommended that you do a few "orientation workouts" to familiarize yourself with each exercise. Perform 1 set of each exercise with minimum rest between each exercise. Aim to do at least 8-10 repetitions of each exercise. At first aim to do one circuit of each exercise. As you get fitter, increase to 2 complete circuits. Feel free to change the order of the exercises.

• Pushup (advanced: do one-legged)
• Crunch
• Elevated pushup (advanced: do one-legged)
• Door Chins
• Crunch
• Dip Pushup
• Door Chins
• Burpees
• Wallsit
• Squats
• Wallsit
• Burpees
• Chair Hamstrings
• Chair Chins
• Handstand Pushup (Optional)
• Crunch

Please Note: This routine is very demanding. Take it slow until you feel comfortable with the movements. Then gradually increase intensity.

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