BHP Fitness

You may find today's post confusing coming from someone who owns a gym. Today I'm going to discuss getting a good workout from home. Don't get me wrong, I want everyone to continue coming to the gym, but sometimes you may not be able to make it for whatever reason. While there is no substitute for the workout you'll get in a real gym. There are ways to get a workout at home. You'll need some basic, inexpensive gear. I suggest a stability ball, a quality set of changeable dumbbells, or set of resistance bands, and a quality jump rope. With these few items you can get a good home workout. In fact in the very near future I'm going to be doing some group fitness classes using these very items. Using dumbbells or bands you can do squats, curls, shoulder press, lunges, and lots of other exercises. Using the stability ball works great for crunches, or by placing you feet on the ball and doing push ups for chest or place your hands on the ball and do the push ups. You can do ball squats. Place the ball between your back and the wall and slowly squat rolling the ball along with you. The thing about a stability ball is that like it's name you have to stabilize yourself on the ball. So while you're doing these exercises you are constantly working your core muscles. Now to my favorite, the jump rope. Boxers have long used jump ropes as a way to build aerobic ability and balance. Try doing one of the above exercises, then 60 seconds on the rope. Rest 30 seconds then repeat using a different exercise. Do several sets of these until you've done one exercise for each body part.