Jordan M asked:
Is there a way to work out without weights at home or a way to do aerobic exercises in your bedroom? I want to start working out, but don’t have weights. Plus I need to lose about 20 lbs. I weight 220lbs and I’m 6′4″. I’m about 20 lbs more than I’d like, maybe more, I have a fat stomach, but harder to tell with clothes on but I can def see it without a shirt. Will I have excess skin in that area if I lose weight or would I have to weigh more than that? Will skin retract or no?
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Is there a way to work out without weights at home or a way to do aerobic exercises in your bedroom? I want to start working out, but don’t have weights. Plus I need to lose about 20 lbs. I weight 220lbs and I’m 6′4″. I’m about 20 lbs more than I’d like, maybe more, I have a fat stomach, but harder to tell with clothes on but I can def see it without a shirt. Will I have excess skin in that area if I lose weight or would I have to weigh more than that? Will skin retract or no?
yoga takes fairly little room… if you are on an upstairs floor then you can’t get much cardio without making a lot of noise, and cardio is what you want to reduce weight, for the most part. yoga is good for looking good though.
Since you’re not seriously overweight, it’s doubtful that you’ll have extra flappy skin hanging around your midsection. To get rid of that gut, you have to do cardio and ab exercises - cardio to get rid of the fat under the skin, and ab work to make them more defined (but you probably knew that). It takes a while though (to lose it in a healthy manner).
You can do cardio in your room by listening to music and groovin, but if you want to do some real movement, hopefully your room is on the first floor. I have to do my exercises in our living room, lol. But you can definitely exercise indoors; I don’t go outside at all. I also only use weights when I’m doing toning for my arms or chest/back, and then they only need to be between 2 - 6 lbs for me, or 5 - 10 lbs for a guy. And don’t forget to eat better too
You shouldn’t have much excess skin at that weight. It’s better to act now though before you do get obese enough to end up with extra, hanging skin. Back to your question, there is a lot you can do at home. Is it not possible for you to get outside to run? If not, you can get a jumprope and do that indoors. It is very good aerobic exercise and nearly a full body workout. You could buy a set of adjustable dumbells and use them for almost all parts of your body. Here is what I would recommend. Pick up a jumprope, which is under $10, a set of adjustable dumbells, about $30, and the Abs Diet book, $19.95. For about $60, you will have everything you need to get started. I recommend that book because it has an alternate, at-home workout for every gym workout. It also has a lot of good nutritional info and a ton of ab exercises you can do at home. Good luck!
THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN DO…..START OFF WITH SOME JUMPING JACKS AND SQUAT THRUST DO 4 SETS OF 20 REPS…THEN DO CIRCUIT TRAINING RIGHT AFTER WHICH CONSIST OF 10 PUSH UP 10 SIT UP AND 10 SQUATS ALL BACK TO BACK TRY TO DO IT CONTINUOUSLY FOR 20 MINUTES ( YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO DO THE FULL 20 MINUTES AT FIRST BUT KEEP TRYING) THEN END WITH 4 SET OF 20 REPS OF JUMPING JACKS AND SQUAT THRUST….FYI SQUAT THRUST IS WHEN YOU STAND IN THE UPRIGHT POSITION BEND OVER TO TOUCH THE GROUND EXTEND INTO A ELEVATED PUSH UP DO A PUSH UP PULL YOUR FEET BACK IN THEN STAND UP….DO THIS ROUTINE AT LEAST 4 TO 5 DAYS A WEEK AND THAT WILL STRAIGHTEN YOU OUT
jumping jacks, sittups and pushups
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You might want to consider rubber band training. It`s quiet, inexpensive and it gives great results for toning arm and legs. Now to strengthen/abs, if find that the most effective exercise is to lye on you back (with your hands underneath you buttock’s, and you lift both your legs up at a 60 degree angle. You lower them as low as you can without touching the ground and you repeat. I usually do 3 series of 30 reps daily. Good luck!
I recommend pairing yoga with calisthenics. There is a good article in this months SELF magazine (cameron diaz is on the cover) about it and it also includes a workout to do. It is fairly easy, yet you can feel the burn!! I do it at home, and you don’t need anything!
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Of course you can work out without weights, i have a 700 page book with excersizes without weights you can do for every muscle, even your finger muscles. You can do push ups, sit ups, leg raises for lower abs, oblique (side abs) crunches. When i started working out, since i didnt have money for weights, id use 2 or 3 of those gallon waterbottles. get a chair, put your hands on it with your back facing the chair and push up and down. Those work your triceps
For aerobic excersize, ’superset’ those excersizes. Excersize one muscle (for example push ups), without resting, and then do another muscle (or the same one, up to you). Just keep your heart rate high.
Hope that helped