Best Workouts You Can Do At Home

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Best Workouts You Can Do At Home

Instead of just giving you a list of sample workouts, how about we just teach you how to build a training program that gets results so you can design one that better aligns with your specific goals and needs?

It’s easier than you think! There are only five basic requirements to keep in mind:

Requirement #1: Cover All Basic Movement Patterns

When designing your training program, you need to make sure you include exercises that cover these seven fundamental movements:

  1. Pushing – examples include the push up, dip, and pike or handstand pushup
  2. Pulling – examples include the pull up, chin up, and row
  3. Squatting – examples include the front squat, back squat, and goblet squat
  4. Lunging – examples include the basic lunge, step up, side lunge, and Bulgarian split squat
  5. Hinging – examples include the deadlift, sumo deadlift, and Romanian deadlift
  6. Rotating – examples include the wood chopper and the Pallof press
  7. Walking – examples include the farmer’s walk and cardiovascular exercises like jogging and skipping rope

The goal here is to develop all-around fitness and athleticism that you can use in your everyday life.

Requirement #2: Always Observe Proper Form

Of course, if you want to make the most out of your workouts (and stay injury free), you’ll need to also make sure that you’re performing every movement with perfect form—which can be quite challenging to do if you’re a beginner and you don’t have a professional coach guiding you.

So, unless you’re 100% sure you know what you’re doing, your best bet is to at least consult with a professional first before designing your at-home training program.

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Requirement #3: Incorporate Progressive Overload

Your body is lazy. Unless you give it a super compelling reason to get bigger and stronger (i.e., through resistance training), it will stay as it is. And even when you do give it one, it will stop progressing again once it makes the necessary adaptations to handle the loads you’re subjecting it to.

So, how do you keep improving? You keep pushing your body to do more—and that’s exactly what progressive overload is all about.

Simply put, if you want to keep getting bigger and stronger, you’ll have to keep increasing the total volume of work (i.e., weight x reps x sets) you do over time.

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Requirement #4: Prioritise Compound Movements

This one just means you should do more multi-joint exercises like push ups, squats, and pull ups and fewer single-joint movements like bicep curls, leg extensions, and front delt raises.

Compound or multi-joint exercises, as the term suggests, not only hit multiple muscle groups at once, they also allow you to lift much heavier loads. This means they’ll help you get bigger and stronger much faster than isolation or single-joint movements ever could.

So, does this mean isolation exercises have no place in your program? Not at all! You see, single-joint movements are great for training lagging body parts.

Are your biceps not growing as fast as you’d like even though you’re doing pull ups? Add a couple of sets of curls to your program. Have your triceps stopped getting bigger? Do push downs. Struggling to get your middle delts to pop out? Do lateral raises or some variation of the exercise.

At the end of the day, the goal is to start with compound movements and just add isolation exercises to plug any holes you see in your training along the way.

Requirement #5: Get the Right Equipment

At the very least, try to invest in a pair of adjustable dumbbells (like these). Doing so would give you pretty much everything you need to cover all the seven fundamental movements we’ve shared with you earlier and incorporate progressive overload in your training.

But can’t you just do bodyweight exercises instead?

Of course you can. But keep in mind that it’s much more challenging to, say, do your first push up than to press a pair of 5-kg dumbbells and progress from there. The same goes for pull ups versus starting with light dumbbell rows to hit your back and biceps.

And it’s much harder to progress with bodyweight exercises too. Going from squats to pistol squats, for instance, is no cakewalk.

For cardio, while jogging, skipping rope, and burpees are all phenomenal, they might not be the best exercises for you if you’re overweight or have a bad knee. And even if you’re pretty fit, high-impact movements like these are still not something you should do every day.

If you want to do cardio every day (or just don’t want to wear down your knees), then fan bikes (like these) are what you want. They don’t only work your arms, core, and legs at the same time, they also don’t subject your knees to massive impact forces no matter how hard you go.

Next Steps

Of course, knowing what’s required to build a training program that works is just one part of the equation. You also need to figure out the right exercises, total training volume, and training frequency for your specific fitness goals.

The good news is we’d love to help you out. The bad news is we can only do that if we know exactly what you need. So, why don’t you drop by for a free trial class so we can talk about your goals and requirements in person?

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