Stay in Shape with these Simple Home Workout Ideas

Work Out At Home

So you’re very busy, or you’re not a morning person, and most of all there is just no time to fool with going to the gym. So what is left? What is left is the twenty minute work out at home to keep you fit and healthy. Its an exercise routine that can be done twice a day. You will do it once before you run off to work and once again in the evening.

The exercises are simple and are presently being performed in aerobics classes, gyms and martial arts clubs. This home exercise is for improving your cardiovascular fitness and muscular endurance as well as toning the body.

When doing these exercises be sure to work as hard as you possibly can then rest for thirty seconds before you go on to the next routine. Do them correctly with proper form. Be specifically careful to do the bridges and squat thrusts correctly. Be sure to breathe deeply and naturally throughout the exercise.

This exercise routine works the whole body; it helps your cardiovascular system, tones your body and strengthens it.

Begin by jogging in place for three minutes. Just a light jog in one spot.

Next, do twenty five jumping jacks. Be sure to bend your knees slightly when landing, this will have less impost on the knee joints.

You are now ready to do fifteen crunches by lying on your back with your knees bent. You hands should be behind your head with the elbows pointing outward. Your hands should support your head. Your neck and spine should be in a straight line. Raise your upper torso from the mat and lower yourself until the back of your shoulders touch the mat. Muscles worked: abdominals.

Our next exercise routine is the hip bridges or which you will to ten repeats. Lay on your back with you hands at ninety degree angle to the floor. Lift you body off the floor being sure it is in a straight line making a bridge from the shoulders to the knee. You position should look like a table with your hands and legs as the legs of the table. Your body and your knees are the surface of the table. Holding this position for two seconds squeeze your butt muscles (glutes) now lower yourself. Muscle worked: lower back, glutes and hamstrings.

Following these exercises you will do one minute of step ups and fifteen repeats of reverse crunches (reverse above crunches).

Get in Shape like the Biggest Loser Contestants with the Biggest Loser Workout DVD

Workout Like the Biggest Loser Contestants and Jillian Michaels

With all of the talk about obesity in the United States today, we have all become weight loss conscious. Then our television sets got into the act when the program “The Biggest Loser” came on to show us it can be done. Each week they would show us a large person that, by the end of the show, lost a lot of weight with exercise and proper diet. Many of us were left wanting our own Biggest Loser workout and Jillian Michaels dvd. Now the program has instituted a series of Biggest Loser Workout DVDs for us to use their techniques at home.

There are a series of four DVDs and the first one is a beginner’s workout and the trainer is Bob who start of with very basic exercises and builds it up. Although you may not be able to do all of the moves required you learn enough to keep up and keep your body moving so that you will benefit from every exercise.

The second DVD is also with the trainer Bob and they are a bit tougher than the exercises of the first DVD. Accompanying Bob on this DVD is Kim. There are separate intense exercises centered on strength workouts for men and for women.

On the next two DVDs all of the trainers, Bob, Jillian and Kim are featured,  These DVDs are made to allow you to alternate between the Power Sculpt and the Cardio Max DVDs.

The Biggest Loser Boot Camp is an at home exercise workout DVD featuring Biggest Loser weight trainer Bob Harper. The DVD focuses on intervals of weight and cardio workouts. It is a six week program where the exerciser does a specific exercise routine every two weeks for six weeks. The six week program consists of the following:

• Weeks 1 – 2 Warm up and cool down exercises for thirty minutes
• Weeks 3 – 4 warm up exercises from Boot Camp 1 and Boot camp 2 and a cool down for a total of 45 minutes
• Weeks 5 – 6 warm ups from all three coot camp levels and the cool down for a total of 55 minutes.

For resistance, the DVD shows the use of a medicine ball, exercise tubes and dumbbells, but they are not really needed. Other resistance items can be used instead. This is a very effective calorie burning exercise DVD for the intermediate exerciser. You can make these exercises a little more difficult by using heavier weights.