Getting in a workout from home can be a huge advantage to your every day life. It allows you to save time, stay fit, and keep your mind and body happy. However, finding a good workout routine at home can be difficult due to a lack of weights, equipment, or even knowledge on what exercises to do. This can be an extreme challenge to overcome, however, at OU Fit+Rec, we’re providing some of our favorite exercises and some key information to help you stay fit.
- To begin, we believe jumping jacks are one of the most fundamental exercises that you can include in your at home workout. Jumping jacks help work your heart, your lungs, and your muscles all at once, making it not only valuable for your body goals, but also your health. Jumping jacks focus primarily on your glutes, hip flexors, and your quads, but can also have an effect on your abs, calves, hamstrings, and shoulders. Most of all, it’s a great cardio exercise!
- Next, another great compound exercise, the squat. Squats focus on almost every single major muscle of the legs, including the quads, hamstrings, and glutes. However, they can also focus attention on your abs, calves, lower back, and hip flexors. Squats are the holy grail of compound exercises, building joint and muscle strength in all of your leg muscles, while also helping your weight loss goals.
- This next exercise, the push up, is the most common workout that you can do from home. The push up has a major emphasis on your upper body strength, mass, and endurance centralized on your pectoralis major, triceps, and anterior deltoids. However, it also can help your abs, obliques, serratus anterior, glutes, and quads. The biggest positive of a push up is that there are multiple different variations that can work other muscles as well!
- Next up, the lunge, an exercise that you’ve probably commonly done without even knowing it. Every time you bend to tie your shoes, kneel, or any variation, you are doing a lunge! Lunges work out your quads, glutes, and hamstrings in your lower body, but can also again help your abs and your calves. Lunges not only help your balance, but they also help your spine by relaxing it and giving it a break from other common exercises.
- The next exercise happens to be a bit less common, but not complex by any means. Tricep dips, an exercise that work the triceps, pectoralis major, anterior deltoids, and trapezius, only require one piece of extra set up, a chair or anything similar. To do this exercise, you face away from the chair (or something similar), placing your hands behind you on the equipment, squatting down, and using your triceps to lift you up again. Tricep Dips allow multiple muscle groups to grow and flourish while also allowing your body to perform pull-ups and other exercises even better than before.
- The final exercise we recommend is a bit more taxing. The burpee is a mix of an exercise in which you start on the ground, push yourself up, jump in the air, and immediately get back on the ground and push yourself up once more, continuing the process. Burpees target many major muscle groups like your arms, chest, shoulders, abs, leg muscles, hips, and glutes. This is a tiring exercise, so make sure you are careful while performing!
If you would like, you can follow these exercises simultaneously! provided is a video that gives you correct set and rep amounts, exercise order, and rest times. Always remember to pace yourself and stay hydrated throughout the workout. Stay safe while preforming these exercises, and stay happy and healthy throughout. Boomer!
SOURCES
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-to-do-burpee/
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