Get Fit Without Going to The Gym

A lot of people assume that you need to go to the gym in order to lose body fat and get fit. While a gym can indeed help, it isn’t a must.

In this article I want to show you how you can get fit and firm without going to the gym. I’m going to show you how you can train each and everyone of your muscle groups without using any fitness machine whatsoever.

Some of these exercises will make use of some cheap home exercise equipment, but other exercises will use your body’s weight as resistance so no equipment will be necessary to do them.

Let’s see how you can stay or get in shape without ever visiting a gym:

Cardio workouts

There are many cardio routines you can do without ever having to set food inside a gym:

• Running
• Walking
• Cycling
• Hiking
• Playing ball games

These are just some of the possible cardio workouts you can do to lose weight and get in shape. No gym required.

Now, let’s go over one muscle group after the other and see how you can strengthen and tone each of them without going to the gym:

Chest

To work the chest at home you can do a number of things. Doing push-ups is an easy way to work on your pectoral muscles by using your body as resistance. You can do push-ups in a variety of ways to target the different part of the chest.

If you have a pair of dumbbells, you can also do chest presses at home either on the floor or on a stability ball.

Shoulders

The push-ups you do for your chest will also work the shoulders. However, you can also do targeted exercises for your shoulders with dumbbells. These include shoulder presses, dumbbell swings, and sideway swings.

Back

The best way to train the back without having to go to the gym is to do pull-ups and chin-ups. This can be done at home with a doorway pull up bar. If you can’t do pull-ups or chin-ups, you can easily train your back with dumbbells by doing one handed back rows. This is a very effective exercise. To train the lower back you can do deadlifts or do the superman exercise.

Buttocks

You can tone your butt by doing a variety of exercises. These include lower body exercises such as squats and lunges and more targeted exercises such as hip extensions and bridges. You don’t need any equipment to do these exercises.

Triceps

You can tone and strengthen your triceps with a variety of exercises. These include the close grip push-up, tricep dips, and, when using a dumbbell, the overhead tricep extension and the lying triceps extension.

Biceps

Most upper body back exercises also work the biceps. However, there are also a variety of targeted bicep exercises you can do at home such as bicep curls, hammer curls, and one handed curls. All these do require dumbbells.

Thighs

To tone your thighs and hips, you can do squats or lunges. These can be done without any equipment or they can be done while holding a dumbbell in each hand. The more weight you carry, the harder these exercises will be.

Calves

Easily worked on at home by doing standing or seated calve raises.

Abs

You certainly don’t need to go to the gym to work on your ab muscles. You can easily work on them at home. All you need is a carpet or a workout mat and you can do crunches, scissores, planks, hip raises, bicycle crunches, and many other stomach workouts. Check out the following tummy exercises for some detailed explanation.

In conclusion

You can get fit without going to the gym. In fact, there are so many ways you can train your body without setting food outside your door that there is simply no excuse not to workout. Take action and you will get results. Check out this extreme fat loss home workout to see one example of a routine you can do at home.