Five At Home Workout Essentials

 Top 5 At Home Workout Essentials

 

So you want to workout from home?  Whether it’s for convenience, schedule, hatred of crowds, money, or just want the ability to pick up a weight while your kids play now is the best time to start working out in your basement, garage, living room, ect..  

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Dumbbells

This can become one of the bigger expenses, but you will use these EVERYDAY!  The good thing about Dumbbells is that you can slowly buy them overtime as you get stronger and more fit.  For a home gym, I suggest buying sets of them, usually ranging from 5-50lbs and then 55-90 or so at a time but this will be a big purchase and might be out of your budget right now.  If buying a few pairs at a time is a better fit for you the best two options are: ONE: find a free shipping deal and TWO: Go to a physical store and buy them.  Shipping can destroy you on weights.  When I made my two big orders for the new building I waited until I could get free freight shipping and ordered thousands of pounds at once (remember, this is also a commercial building not just a home gym – DON’T BUY THOUSANDS OF POUNDS JUST YET!)

 

Kettlebells

Perfect for anyone looking to lose weight while adding in some fast moving strength exercises.  At our club we range from 5lbs-203lbs (highly doubtful you will ever need more than 35-50lbs) and use this just as much, if not more, than the dumbbells for most of our weight loss focused clients.  My two favorite exercises with Kettlebells are High Pulls and Swings since they are preformed fast enough to get the heart going while working almost every muscle in the body.  Another bonus is they typically have a wider grip than dumbbells allowing for some extra grip strength building to kick in.

 

 

A Program

Most people can’t drive to a gym and stay focused, imagine how hard it will be when your couch is in the next room.  You need to find a program and stick to it.  Between paid for programs and free programs it has never been easier to get your hands on one.  We actually offer 2 at home programs – 1 that is 100% FREE (email sign-ups at www.OHARAFITNESS.net)  and the other is only $50 a month for Live Video workouts where 50% of your payments go towards fighting colon cancer.  Whether you decide to go with us or another one, just make sure to stick with it 100%.

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Medicine Ball

If you are doing your workouts in a Basement or Garage I would suggest a Slam Ball so you can pound it into the ground but most likely you will be doing this in your living room and probably shouldn’t start breaking anything.  You will probably use a Medball mostly for Ab work but if you get creative this one very affordable piece of equipment can take over a full hour workout at home.

 

Ab Mat

They’re too cheap not to get.  Whether it is an easy to roll up mat (yoga mat) or a very think foldable mat, this is not something you should skip out on.  You can definitely do all your abs on your carpet or hardwood floors but once you start getting into high rep routines or any lower ab movements that will cause the tailbone to forcefully pin itself into the floor causing unnecessary pain you are either going to rush out and buy one or just get in the habit of neglecting Abs.  Save yourself the trouble and just buy one NOW!

 

There you go, 5 at home workout tools to keep you going.  For info regarding our 3day a week LIVE online training just click the image below.