Do You Need a Gym Pass to remain Fit?

If you don't have a gym membership there are still plenty of ways to stay fit. Gyms are helpful, but can also be crowded, and memberships can be long and expensive. The worst parts about gyms are the staff members who annoy you constantly and try to advertise their gym's services to you like a cars salesperson. Now you can learn some easy workout routines that you can easily do at home in the comfort of your own home! You may not get huge like the hulk, but you will get cut and toned guaranteed.

Bodyweight Exercises

Body weight training is where you only use the weight of your body for exercises, which means no dumbbells or bars whatsoever. They are more effective then you might first believe. Many people only workout this way and get ripped and toned fast. Without weights you tend to do more repetitions and less rest, which means a higher intensity cardio session that burns fat fast. Other than running and jump rope, some exercises to try are:

* Dips - You can do dips simply with just a sturdy chair, stair step, or basically any area that allows you to dip you body down far enough. These are great for working out your shoulders, triceps, and abdominals.

* Push-ups - The standard way, or position your arms differently for variety. By closing your hands together you will work more of your shoulders and upper back area. Close hand pushups are great not only for your pectorals, but your biceps as well. Close hand, incline, and decline pushups are also available to you. Back in the day when football just started weight training was still not popular, and that meant many athletes only chose to do hundreds of pushups split into numerous sets!

* Pull-Ups - although you need a bar for these, they are simple enough to find and do in any park or playground. The extra effort will be worth it with pull-ups though You can alter your grip to wider, for working your back more, to narrower for using your biceps more. Also a good training to do on the pull up bar is leg raises which work the abdominals.

* Core Work - perform crunches, situps and planks plus many other exercises for your abdominals. Crunches are where you lift only your shoulders off the ground, and sit ups are where you raise your full body off while keeping your butt and feet planted. The options for abdominal workouts are many.

Equipment for your Home

Purchasing your own fitness equipment to make use of at home can be costly at first, but in the long term may be worth the investment. Dumbbells are great as you can do many different types of exercise and you only need a few different sizes. Kettlebells are also perfect for at home weight training. Multi-purpose benches are also useful and are not too expensive these days. They can be changed from flat, incline, and decline giving you all the benefits in one machine!

Safety needs to be important if using weights at home, and nobody is about. Only exercise with weights that you are able to lift, and place the right amount of cardio stress that you know your body can handle. Drink plenty of water and have fun!