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I’ve been looking for exercise routines to do at home without any exercise equipment, but none of them actually work in losing weight!!!!! HELP!

1. Staggered Pushups: Place your one hand on the floor while other on the book with your face facing the floor. By keeping your body straight lower your body on your toes and knees and perform pushups.

2. Triceps Dip: for this sit on a chair with your hands resting by your thighs. Now bring your hips out by pushing up with knees bending and butt almost brushing chair/bench. After this bend your elbows and lower the body until the elbows are making right angle. Push back up and repeat the same. If you want it to be more intense you should straighten your legs.

3. Squats on triceps: Stand with your feet apart with width that is more than hip’s. Now squat down and put your hands on the phone book which should be in front of you. Now raise your body using your fingertips and tiptoes and lift your hips toward ceiling. Try straightening your knees as much as you can. Crouch back down and repeat the same procedure. Remember to stay on your tiptoes during this workout. You can also perform this by placing hands on bed or chair.

4. Good mornings: For this stand with your feet apart at about hip width and hold the book over your head. By slightly bending knees and keeping the abs braced, tip from hips and then lower the torso till it is in line with the floor. Make sure that you keep your arms in line with your ears. Return to original position and repeat. If you have back problem do not perform this routine.

5. Calf Raise: You should stand on the book. Make sure that the heels are hanging off the back. Ensure your body is straight before lifting your body up on the tiptoes by contracting your calves. Return to original position and repeat the routine. This routine can be performed on the floor as well.

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Just do a lot of push ups from different angle and arm positions. Do regular push ups then with your hands close together or using a ball such as a medicine ball/basketball/soccer ball. Do decline push ups at different angles using chairs for your feet and your hands being on the floor. Use tables chairs or any other items to adjust the height. You can also do incline push up by placing your hands on an item that is higher like a table and your feet on the ground. Push ups are one of the best exercises around. You can also to dips using two chairs., this hits your triceps more but will will hit your chest also/ As you get better you can do one handed push ups. You can also vary these with a physio ball if you have one or stretch bands are good and inexpensive and offer a lot more variety. Check out Ironchestworkouts.com for some ideas.

I am currently doing the P90x program. You will need a set of push up bars, yoga mat, pull up bar, yoga block(if you are new to yoga) various dumbbell weights(adjustable db are great), and a pen to write your stats down.

I know Cardio is an important factor in weight loss, but lately I’ve been bored with all the running, and exercise biking. What is your favorite cardio exercise to do?

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In this video Im going to go over a total body workout routine that you can do using just bodyweight exercises.

The first exercise is the basic push up.
Push ups are great for building up the chest, shoulders, and triceps. They also bring the muscles throughout the mid-section and core into play as stabilizers to keep your body straight.

Here in the video both my self and my better half Patricia are doing the workout set for set.

Youll notice that here on the video we are doing the push ups with our hands placed on an exercise matt. This tends to make the exercise more comfortable then if you did them with your hands placed on the hard floor.

You can vary your hand spacing and positions with each set to work the muscles from different angles. Wider hand spacing tends to place more stress on the chest. And a closer hand spacing tends to focus more on working the triceps.

Were doing our bodyweight workout in a circuit routine fashion. Moving quickly from one exercise to the next. Only resting long enough for the other person to complete their set.

Here Im doing bodyweight squats. This is a great exercise that works the entire lower body from the quadriceps, hamstrings, hips, and glutes. When doing squats youll make the exercise a lot harder and get more benefit if you use a full range of motion and squat all the way down.

Here you can see Patricia doing bodyweight squats from a side angle. Youll notice that her upper thighs go down part parallel with the floor. This is what is referred to as a full squat.

When doing bodyweight squats you can hold your arms in whatever way feels best to you. You can hold them to the front as shown here, or you can keep them down by your sides.

Next we are moving on to bodyweight rows. I normally like to do this exercise in the smith machine as it keeps the bar more solid, but here on the video were doing them in the squat rack and holding the bar in place for each other so it doesnt slide or rotate.

Place your feet up on a flat exercise bench as shown in the video and then row yourself up until your torso touches the bar. This can be a tough exercise for beginners and will most likely take some getting used to.

Really focus on keeping your body straight throughout the exercise, dont let your hips sag down. It will help if you arch your back and expand your chest, almost as if you were trying to bring your chest up to meet the bar.

You can target different areas of the back depending on where you row. Pulling your stomach to the bar will work the lower lats more. And pulling your chest towards the bar will work more of the upper back and rear delts.

Now were moving on to one of my favorite abdominal exercises. Decline bench sit ups. This exercise is one of the best ab exercises because it works all areas of the mid-section, from the upper abs, lower abs, and obliques.

The steeper the decline on the bench, the hard the exercise will be.

Well, there you have it a complete total body workout using just your bodyweight. Like I mentioned before, go through each of the exercises in a circuit fashion, and then repeat the entire circuit again. A good goal to work up to is to perform 100 total reps of each exercise.

Bodyweight exercises are a quick and very effective way to stimulate some new muscle growth. Give this bodyweight circuit routine a try in your own workouts.

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I have a treadmill at my house that i run on every day (can run a 7:55 minute mile right now) but i dont have anything else in my house, i know pushups pullups and situps help but are their any other workouts? and how many reps should i do for all the workouts without tearing a muscle?

Well first off you don’t really need to worry about tearing a muscle when talking about push ups sit ups and pull ups… Second, if you can-run outside, treadmills are boring, and it really does a lil more for the confidence to know "sweet I really just ran 3 miles", Then "oh this treadmill said I just ran 3 miles", know what I mean?

Since you can break 8min mile I’ll guess that you are active. If you aren’t active ease into it, don’t go from the couch to running miles everyday. I’ll give you a week schedule to follow for a few weeks if you want.

(again assuming you are active already)
Day 1 – IST run 1.5 miles, max sit ups in 2 mins, max pull ups
Day 2 – Max push ups x 2
Day 3 – Run 2 miles
Day 4 – Run 1 mile hard, Max sit ups in 2 mins, Max pull ups
Day 5 – Max push ups
Day 6 – Run 3 miles
Day 7 – REST

I just threw that together =P but that would be something I would do.

I hate cardio exercise, but I love strength exercises. I know that my ab muscles won’t show if their is fat over it, but I’m not a fat person. I do have a little extra, but really nothing anyone can see but me. So, if I continue to build muscle, but don’t do cardio exercises, will I lose the fat too, revealing my muscles?

I found a site that might help you with this…but I believe you are going to still have to do cardio along with the other exercises to accomplish what you want….check out these videos I found

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click on one of the video categories….good luck.

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