Home Fitness - Don't Be a Dumbbell

Posted 18 February 2009

More people are waking up to the benefits of home fitness - for convenience, cost effectiveness and for sustainable weight loss.

The gym can be a scary place - full of intimidating weight machines. Even if you've been shown during an induction how to use the contraptions, there's always that niggling feeling six months on that you're doing it all wrong, using the wrong weights or messing up your posture. Home fitness, however; is, not surprisingly, booming. And now home fitness fans can download home fitness programmes online helping them incorporate cardiovascular exercise, such as walking or running in their local parks and streets, with resistance training - using a home fitness programme in their own front rooms. What's more, home fitness programmes online come with feedback, encouragement and advice so you get all the benefits of a personal trainer at home.

Home Fitness - Taking the Terror out of Toning

When the nights are dark and cold and the idea of leaving your home to hit the gym fills you with dread, you can turn to home fitness regimes as an easier alternative to toning up. There's a vast array of home fitness equipment - from the high tech power plates, to the celebrity fitness DVD and the Swiss ball, or a simple skipping rope. And for toning, you can do the necessary squats, push ups, press ups and lunges just using your sofa and cans of baked beans. All you need is the right home fitness programme and some guidance.

Affordable and Achievable: Home Fitness

A columnist in the Wall Street Journal recently highlighted the madness of gyms, Neal Templin writes: "It all looks like something out of Dante's Inferno. And the most amazing thing is that people are paying to endure these trials." Templin who has been an on-off member of gyms calculated that he'd spent $8,500 on gyms and fitness over 27 years. Paying a £50 a month membership fee and going just twice a month is a familiar scenario for many. Home fitness makes much more financial sense. You can keep in shape using basic, accessible, affordable home fitness regimes. The great outdoors is nature's gym - cycling, running, walking or team sports are great for cardiovascular exercise. Combined with some simple home fitness programmes for toning, it needn't cost a penny to transform your body, and your life. Anyone who has bought expensive home fitness equipment only to leave it rusting in the garage will know it's not about spending lots of cash to get fit - it's about motivation, common sense and a little push in the right direction.

Sign up for a Home Fitness Programme with Fitbug

As a Fitbug member, you are already on course for a fitter, healthier body and if you are meeting your weekly targets you are doing great work for your heart and lungs. If you want to achieve a more toned appearance, then the best way to do so is to add a little bit of resistance work into your weekly routine. Resistance training has multiple benefits for your body. It will help you to increase your muscle mass, which will in turn will speed up your metabolism and help you to burn more calories even when you are resting. The great news is that you don’t have to get down to the gym and lift heavy weights to experience the benefits of weight training. In fact, you can get noticeable results in your own front room just by using furniture, your own body weight and simple household items like bottles of water or tins of beans.