Easy Home Exercises That Will Help You Lose Weight And Improve Your Fitness

In this article I am hoping to encourage people wishing to lose weight to try some simple home exercise routines – routines that I have found effective myself.

Everyone probably knows that a combination of diet and exercise is what allows you to lose weight faster- but a lot of people fall into the trap of just dieting and forget about the exercise part.

In my last article I discussed some healthy dieting options, so in this one I thought I would tell you about some simple home exercises you can do to keep yourself fit whilst you are dieting. These simple exercises will help you to burn fat and help you to achieve your dieting goals more quickly.

Some people reading this article are going to be starting from scratch and so I am going to include some short starter routines to tone your muscles to allow you to progress to the full routines without injuring yourself.

Everyone is different so I am not going to specify how long you should exercise for or how many exercise routines you must do. Just keep doing an exercise listed below until you feel tired then stop – but each day try and keep going a little bit longer than the day before, this will allow you to gradually improve your fitness at a pace that suits your body and help you avoid strain injuries.

1. I highly recommend press-ups as they will strengthen and tone your arms and stomach muscles – but press-ups can be tough for someone starting to exercise from scratch. If you start off with full press-ups and struggle to do one – consider doing half press-ups. A half-press up is done resting your body weight on your knees not your toes. Try half-press ups to start off with and when you find them easy you can then progress to full press-ups. You should do as many as possible but stop when you feel tired. Keep a note of how many you do and see if you can beat that number the next day. Writing this information on paper will help to motivate you, as will be able to see how your fitness level increases with time.

2. Squats are another great exercise. They are done by positioning your feet below each shoulder and keeping your body straight and then you just squat up and down. This exercise strengthens your legs and buttocks and I suggest you also hold your arms out directly in front of you whilst you squat up and down. This will work and tone arm and shoulder muscles more than just having your arms at your side.

3. If your home has stairs you can burn fat walking up and down them. You may be surprised how effective this exercise can be, you will soon notice yourself putting on a sweat – which is a good thing. Again stop when you are tired and try to do more the next day and so on.

The above exercises are great warm ups and can be done in most homes for free but for more effective exercise workouts look at some point to try these next two.

4. I am a big fan of brisk pace walking as a form of exercise – I just feel it puts less strain on joints, knees and hips than full-on running. So how do you walk in the home? Well if you really want to exercise at home and I can’t persuade you to go out – you could get yourself an entry-level treadmill machine.

5. My next suggested fat burning exercise is cycling. Now I realize not everyone is lucky enough to have a quiet country lane on their doorstep and urban car fumes and dangerous drivers are hazardous, so I will agree that cycling in the home is a safer option for a lot of people. Cycling is a great form of exercise for burning fat. The great plus with this exercise over say a rowing machine is you can comfortably keep yourself occupied whilst exercising for example watching tv or listening to music. Listening to music on a real bike on a real road is never recommended, you can’t afford to allow yourself this luxury for fear of an accident due to loss of concentration. A home exercise bike takes up much less floor space than say other home exercise equipment like ellipticals and are much more affordable. I highly recommend them.

An interesting fact is that one of the things that people who lose weight and manage to stay slim have in common is they own at least one piece of home exercise equipment.

My view is buying your own home exercise equipment is a sound investment and much more cost-effective than paying yearly gym subscriptions. The convenience of being able to exercise when you want to and in the comfort of your own home is hard to beat.

If you feel motivated to start exercising but are not sure what equipment to get – I have researched some affordable entry-level home exercise bikes and a treadmill option and my top two picks can be found using the link below.