Good Home Workouts?

[WhiteLotus]

Originally Posted by Reventon

Okay. So if I'm looking at about 200 crunches a day and maybe 100 pushups a day and however many pullups a day, what would be good for each? I think sets of 20 for crunches and sets of 10 for pushups would be good, then 5 pullups for everytime I pass through my door.

you will exhaust yourself doing that many in one day i say half it. Dont go gunning it or you will tire yourself.

Also swimming is a great way to get the heart rate working and builds shoulder strength (breast stroke that is)

[crtecha]

I used to sit on my girls pilates ball and do stuff like this.

You can work a lot of your arms

This is a good little guide on at home workouts
http://www.musclenet.com/weightlessworkout.htm

[Kusimeka]

I prefer to go for heavier weight, less reps. So i'd go alot heavier, but only do 5-8 reps. I find this works best for me.

I'd suggest you buy some weights and get a bench, bench pressing will build your chest the strongest & fastest. You won't be able to get as big / strong chest as you would bench pressing, by doing push ups. (unless you do some serious weighted ones)

[Mike0409]

I would say plan your goal's out first. A lot of people tend to think that they can achieve great result's by just doing push-ups/sit-ups without any weight training or cardio.

What are you goal's by chance?

A few tips:

If you want to burn fat, doing 1000's of Push-ups/Sit-Ups will not burn fat, you will get stronger but it will not begin to melt fat off. That is what cardio is for.

If you want to get stronger/bigger you can do push-ups/sit-ups, pull-ups but you need some sort of weight training. Weight training tears your fibers down inside your muscles and allows them to rebuild.

Also without a good diet, your not going to see great result's. And when I say Diet I'm not talking about doing Atkins, or south beach...But making some sort of life style change. Cut soda out, or if you like carbonated drinks use club soda and crystal light mixed together..(maybe with a dash of rum for party times!)

If you work-out and eat mcdonalds all day, or wendys every other day, or just plain shit food..your results are going to be shit. I tend to substitute a lot of different things for something smarter.

[El Fiendo]

Originally Posted by crtecha

I used to sit on my girls pilates ball and do stuff like this.
http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto...-main_Full.jpg
You can work a lot of your arms

This is a good little guide on at home workouts
http://www.musclenet.com/weightlessworkout.htm

If I were to do this, it'd be my luck that the door would rip off the hinges, burst into flames, and rape my face with fiery hot death.

[u2konline]

http://www.livevideo.com/video/BF090...ng-40-lb-.aspx

Do that man, and you are set.







this is my ex gf btw( i wish )

[Reventon]

Originally Posted by Mike0409

I would say plan your goal's out first. A lot of people tend to think that they can achieve great result's by just doing push-ups/sit-ups without any weight training or cardio.

What are you goal's by chance?

A few tips:

If you want to burn fat, doing 1000's of Push-ups/Sit-Ups will not burn fat, you will get stronger but it will not begin to melt fat off. That is what cardio is for.

If you want to get stronger/bigger you can do push-ups/sit-ups, pull-ups but you need some sort of weight training. Weight training tears your fibers down inside your muscles and allows them to rebuild.

Also without a good diet, your not going to see great result's. And when I say Diet I'm not talking about doing Atkins, or south beach...But making some sort of life style change. Cut soda out, or if you like carbonated drinks use club soda and crystal light mixed together..(maybe with a dash of rum for party times!)

If you work-out and eat mcdonalds all day, or wendys every other day, or just plain shit food..your results are going to be shit. I tend to substitute a lot of different things for something smarter.

Okay thanks. I don't eat too unhealthy per say thankfully. Like if I had a choice I'd take Chick-Fil-A over McDonalds and such. I think maybe bringing a small snack to school and not eating lunch there would also help too because the school lunches aren't the healthiest. I also only drink soda when I'm out to dinner or at my friend's house, normally just drink like tea and sparkling water.

Also what I could do is when I'm at the gym is do more weight training (I would go to the gym when I am at my dad's.) Then at my moms I could use the Iron gym for sit-ups and pull-ups and ab crunches and such.

My goals are to burn a little fat (not to much as personally there really isn't much there to burn) and tone my muscles. Nothing too extreme like body building but just get a basic workout to help tone my muscles.

[u2konline]

I do the following when i wake up, 4 days a week.

Wake up(duh) do 20 push ups, brush teeth, wait about 2 hours, eat, wait about 1 hour, do 20 pushups, use 20-40 dumb bells, push ups, rest, eat.

[Reventon]

Originally Posted by u2konline

I do the following when i wake up, 4 days a week.

Wake up(duh) do 20 push ups, brush teeth, wait about 2 hours, eat, wait about 1 hour, do 20 pushups, use 20-40 dumb bells, push ups, rest, eat.

Well 2 hours after I wake up means I'm in school...

[u2konline]

Work out after school, also losing weight is easy. Just eat 2 meals a day, and still work out when you can. I would buy a small weight set in your house , something that can increase your upper body and make sure to buy some dumb bells, start with 30 or 40 if you can.

Sears has some nice stuff.

[Reventon]

Originally Posted by u2konline

Work out after school, also losing weight is easy. Just eat 2 meals a day, and still work out when you can. I would buy a small weight set in your house , something that can increase your upper body and make sure to buy some dumb bells, start with 30 or 40 if you can.

Sears has some nice stuff.

That's what I was saying before. If I were to eat a small snack during school then skip school lunch and have like a small salad at home for lunch, I could eliminate 1000s of calories a week.

[kurosagi01]

simplely go jogging around a soccer field or something and do push ups and sit ups everyday,i practically only do 30sits up every night now and i lost 1stone in a month.Eat healthy,eat less junk food and drink lots of water

[Mike0409]

2 meals a day? Uh don't think so. Best way to burn weight is 6 Small meals each day, all averaging about the same amount of Calories, Carbs, and Proteins. Lower carb's but never cut them out of your entire diet to lose a little faster, put more carb's in to pack on more muscle.

Your metabolism will work much faster with little meals throughout the day, rather than 2 large meals. And the most important meal = breakfast. it can range from a piece of chicken to a small bowl of cereal.

[Reventon]

Originally Posted by Mike0409

2 meals a day? Uh don't think so. Best way to burn weight is 6 Small meals each day, all averaging about the same amount of Calories, Carbs, and Proteins. Lower carb's but never cut them out of your entire diet to lose a little faster, put more carb's in to pack on more muscle.

Your metabolism will work much faster with little meals throughout the day, rather than 2 large meals. And the most important meal = breakfast. it can range from a piece of chicken to a small bowl of cereal.

Yeah, my dad does that. We usually have more for dinner. I eat breakfast practically everyday, so I don't need to worry about that. Only problem with small meals is that I am at school for part of the day, so only about 4 would be do-able. Which I figure if I have a larger dinner that'd be good anyway. Like I said, I think taking a snack to school to have at lunch then eating a small lunch when I get home would be better, as I'm sure our school food isn't the healthiest. Wouldn't be surprised if my average lunch is 800-900 calories at school.

[Reventon]

Also just came across this...

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/healt...u-back-451159/

[JC316]

Originally Posted by El Fiendo

If I were to do this, it'd be my luck that the door would rip off the hinges, burst into flames, and rape my face with fiery hot death.

Sigged.

[Ongaku]

LOL nice

I walk a mile a few times a week, and do a few push ups for my upper body. That's it I lost 50 pounds so far from it

[Reventon]

Lol if I lost 50 pounds right now I'd be in dire trouble.

[WhiteLotus]

how much do you weigh?

I weighed 142 pounds on the 27th of April - now 155 pounds three days ago.

Swimming builds upper strength, and cardio its a good starting point. Don't go and flap about, try and get from one end to the other in as a fewer strokes as you can, really push the water out the way. And when you get to the other end, really push off the wall with your legs, it'll start hurting after the 20th time. Swim strongly for 20 minutes - you'll feel it when you get out.

[Reventon]

Originally Posted by WhiteLotus

how much do you weigh?

I weighed 142 pounds on the 27th of April - now 155 pounds three days ago.

Swimming builds upper strength, and cardio its a good starting point. Don't go and flap about, try and get from one end to the other in as a fewer strokes as you can, really push the water out the weigh. And when you get to the other end, really push off the wall with your legs, it'll start hurting after the 20th time. Swim strongly for 20 minutes - you'll feel it when you get out.

I'm maybe 150lbs, roughly 5'7" in height.

[WhiteLotus]

I'm 6' dead on, so i'm kinda in the same boat.

Fancy some light hearted competition?

[theeldest]

Originally Posted by Reventon

Like I said before I'm trying to get a pullup bar for my door frame. 5 pullups when leaving or entering my room, would that do any good?

Yes.

This is what I do. You'll love it when you get to the point that you can just turn out 15 chin ups no problem.

[n-ster]

For a diet, what people forget is to keep themselves Hydrated... DRINK when you start to feel hungry and your more than half an hour before a meal.

Question: Would it be a good idea to work out like 1 hour after every meal?

[Reventon]

Originally Posted by WhiteLotus

I'm 6' dead on, so i'm kinda in the same boat.

Fancy some light hearted competition?

Haha, in which way? I need a few weeks though before we start. Need to ask my dad for help on a beginning workout plan. Plus if I'm getting an Iron Gym I need to wait until I actually get it.

Originally Posted by n-ster

For a diet, what people forget is to keep themselves Hydrated... DRINK when you start to feel hungry and your more than half an hour before a meal.

Yep, thanks for the advice. Most people don't know this but sometimes someone may be thirsty but yet they think they are hungry, or visa verca. I think if I drank more water would it not only help me lose more weight during workouts but help to reduce my hunger, which somtimes tends to be a bit too much.

My girlfriend drinks a lot of water - much more than I. I need to be more like her lol. She drinks like 4 bottles of water a day or more haha.

[WhiteLotus]

i dunno how, but be interesting