What exercises can you or your family do at home or at a park if you do not or cannot have a gym membership? Bodyweight exercises are essential for the budget- conscious exerciser. If you add a small investment of resistance tubing to that, the possibilities are endless. The following are just some of many bodyweight movements, each of which have countless variations.
1. Pushups.
There are the standard and modified versions, You also can use a bench or a chair to place either your hands or your feet. You can try different hand and/or feet widths and placements, also.
2. Squats
You can do close, medium, or wide stances. You can do single leg versions. You can add jumps to the squats.
3. Lunges
You can do stationary, front lunges, back lunges, side lunges, walking lunges, or jump lunges, to name a few.
4. Spine Raises (Bridges)
Try different feet widths and single leg variations.
5. Abdominals
Crunches, reverse crunches, oblique crunches, bicycle crunches, and planks are all excellent choices.
Using the above as a base, there are countless exercises to choose from. If proper technique and form or motivation are issues, perhaps joining an inexpensive, yet effective, exercise group, such StrollerStrength in Las Vegas, is the answer. Classes are designed with little or no equipment and can be duplicated on your own outside of class.
In these tough economic times, do not let fitness fall by the wayside for you or your family.
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