How to Workout from Home

Easily incorporate home-workouts into your weekly schedule, with a number of options to choose from. Here, I highlight two particular regimes that you can do from the comfort of your humble abode.

You have to help yourself in terms of pushing yourself through the workouts. Also begin to eat better foods, as that’s where the results really come from. You can do all the training in the world, but as the famous quote goes “you can’t out-train a bad diet”. If you are working from home then you have no excuse to not eat well, as you are in control of what is in the house.

So, back to the training part after my rant. I am going to give you two ideas for what you can do at home. I will give you one body weight workout and one kettlebell workout so you have a variety of training options. If you have not got a kettlebell then it’s time to invest in one. For men I advise investing in nothing less than an 18kg kettlebell, and for women nothing less than a 14kg. There isn’t a lot of benefits of swinging a kettlebell that isn’t heavy. You see so many people in gyms using 8kg and 10kg kettlebells, which is a complete waste of time in my opinion. Don’t be afraid to push yourself!

Let’s move on to the workouts. All of these will push you as long as you push yourself. My advice would be to do four workouts a week, two bodyweight and two kettlebells. The programmes are as follows:

Programme one – bodyweight

20 squats 20 press ups 20 Lunges (ten each leg) 20 sit ups 20 star jumps 1 minute plank

For beginners repeat 3 times with a minute rest in between each circuit. For the more advanced individual then repeat 5 times with 30 seconds rest in between each circuit.

Programme two – kettlebells

10 swings 10 squats 10 thrusters 10 Lunges (5 each leg) 10 shoulder presses 10 swings

For this one set a timer and do as many rounds as you can in 15 minutes. Make sure you are warm before each workout with some foam rolling and dynamic stretching.

So there you have it, if you don’t have the time to get to the gym then use these sessions to test yourself. You have the programmes now it is your turn to find the motivation.