How To Lose Fat – The low cost home gym

I get a bunch of emails from readers telling me that they would love to workout but they do not have the money to pay for a gym membership or they just do not feel comfortable with going. OK, this does not mean you can not get a really good resistance workout from home. I will outline the things you can do and where to do them.

First, find a place that you can workout. Living room, basement, sun room, even a larger section of a bedroom will work. Once you have this section of your house that you are going to call your gym, lets outfit it with some equipment.

What, equipment? I know, you just told me that you had no money for a gym membership, how can you afford equipment? These are going to be things that you have in your possession already. Lets start off with the movements that require no equipment

Push-ups, are a great way to build your chest, triceps, and shoulders. Change you grip to hit more specific muscle sections. Close grip for more tris. Further grip for more of outer chest and shoulders.

Squats, Yes you can do squats with our heavy barbell on your back. You can put a broom stick over your should if it helps you to balance.
Lunges, this will target you glut a little more and help to firm up the entire leg.

Jumping jacks for a little cardio
Rock climbers are a great way to get a full body movement that gets the heart pumping

Steps. Step up and down from a chair on your steps to the second floor or basement. Do one or even two steps at a time

Vertical leaps: crouch down and jump up trying to touch the ceiling. If you have the space. Hey you could be very tall!

All of these movements use body weight and gravity as resistance. If you use you imagination a little you can come up with some combinations to challenge your muscles on a daily basis.

Now if you have a little money to spend your money is best spent on the following:

- A jump rope
- An exercise ball
- Some dumbbells
- Exercise bands

With the following pieces you can add the following movements
Dumbbell Chest Press on the ball. One hand at a time or both like a typical press
Dumbbell Chest fly on the ball. This is best done with both arms moving at the same time
Sitting should presses. Sitting on the ball do shoulder dumbbell presses.
Sitting side/front straight arm raises. Again sitting on the ball and with both arms at the same time

Arm curls
Triceps presses
You can hold you dumbbells when doing all you leg movements (squats, lunges, steps)

Now you can super set the Dumbbell movements with the bands if you have them for a great burn. If not the bands and dumbbell can be interchanged with these movements.

As you can see you are filling a great amount of time with resistance training with going to the gym or spending a great deal amount of money

To Your Health
Diet~Activity~Rest~Exercise(DARe) to live life