By Ginger Taylor
With your demanding daily regimen - preparing for work, getting the youngsters ready for school, ensuring that your socks aren't floating in the dog's water bowl, a eventful day at work, coming home and preparing dinner, tidying up the house and getting everyone, including yourself, to sleep - exercise is most certainly the last thing on your mind!
Stress levels and obesity are at an all time high and health troubles are quickly becoming a main concern in many people's lives.
However, exercise is the one thing that can in reality empower as well as even energize you to cope with such a hectic lifestyle with flying colors! Exercising relieves stress, helps you sleep better, and keeps health concerns at bay, while also improving your self-confidence.
Stop Making Excuses
It's a great thing the human body is made the way it is, because there are lots of exercises you can do anywhere, at any time. All you need are a couple of homemade weights you can find around the house and the physical weight of your body.
When exercising, remember to begin with a good warm-up and end with a slow cool-down. This is vital to avoid injury and is easy to achieve no matter where you are. Walking works great for both your warm-up and cool-down routine.
Here are 5 basic exercises you can do anywhere:
1. Tricep Dips. Sit on the edge of a chair or bench with your hands beside your thighs. Lift your body out just in front of the chair, with your feet flat on the floor and your knees bent. Lower yourself down so your elbows bend not exceeding 90 degrees and push yourself back up.
a. Begin with some small sets and work up from there.
b. Straightening your legs enhances the workout.
c. Avoid this exercise if you have wrist or shoulder issues.
2. Pushups. Everyone knows the standard pushup position, so let's try some things to switch it up a bit.
* You can do pushups with your hands wider than shoulder width to obtain more of a shoulder and chest workout.
* If you bring your hands together into a diamond shape around the center of your chest you will work more of the triceps and shoulders.
* Working half pushups - either going only half way down and then back up, or commencing from the floor and mainly pushing up half way and then going back down - will enhance your pushup workout.
3. Crunches. Crunches are amazing for your abs if you do them properly. Done inaccurately, they can put excessive stress on your neck and back. To stay away from injury, make sure to use the correct techniques.
a. The most significant risk is jerking your neck to help you achieve the force to crunch. While doing crunches, keep your hands behind your head and your elbows back while employing your stomach muscles to lift your head and chin towards the ceiling.
b. Once you've perfected this tactic, try lifting your legs off the ground or assuming a bicycle position with one leg bent and the other straight off of the ground.
4. Squats. Body weight squats are a remarkable exercise you can do anywhere and a fantastic way to learn correct technique. Start off your squat workouts by lowering yourself only a foot or so. Then work up to deeper squats as your muscles become accustomed to the exercise.
* If you're feeling a bit advanced and in need of a more rigorous workout, grab two 2-liter bottles filled with sand and try executing squats while holding one in each hand.
5. Calf Lifts. Calf lifts may be done wherever there is a raised surface, such as a stairway. If you require balance, hold onto the railing. Facing the stairs, stand with only your toes on the stair and your feet extending out past it. Standing straight up, lower your body down below the level of the stair and then back up onto your toes.
a. Although it seems as if this is an ankle exercise, it even works out your calf muscles.
b. The most important priority on this exercise is the ability to go from an extreme negative position with ankle below toes to an extreme positive position, ankle entirely raised.
With these five exercises, you have a full body workout. Don't forget to pay attention to your body and take it easy initially. Soreness is a good thing, yet pain means that you must stop. Try these exercises out this week and experience the healthy difference of integrating fitness into your daily routine.
One last note, you can easily tighten, tone, and firm your trouble areas such as muffin top, back fat, love handles and cottage cheese thighs by putting on the ultimate body applicator herbal detox body wrap to those specific areas. These highly effective detoxing wraps can be worn while doing light tasks such as preparing dinner, helping the kids with homework, folding laundry, or after a hot shower before going to bed. You can even sleep in it. Keep in mind you should drink plenty of water.
Stress levels and obesity are at an all time high and health troubles are quickly becoming a main concern in many people's lives.
However, exercise is the one thing that can in reality empower as well as even energize you to cope with such a hectic lifestyle with flying colors! Exercising relieves stress, helps you sleep better, and keeps health concerns at bay, while also improving your self-confidence.
Stop Making Excuses
It's a great thing the human body is made the way it is, because there are lots of exercises you can do anywhere, at any time. All you need are a couple of homemade weights you can find around the house and the physical weight of your body.
When exercising, remember to begin with a good warm-up and end with a slow cool-down. This is vital to avoid injury and is easy to achieve no matter where you are. Walking works great for both your warm-up and cool-down routine.
Here are 5 basic exercises you can do anywhere:
1. Tricep Dips. Sit on the edge of a chair or bench with your hands beside your thighs. Lift your body out just in front of the chair, with your feet flat on the floor and your knees bent. Lower yourself down so your elbows bend not exceeding 90 degrees and push yourself back up.
a. Begin with some small sets and work up from there.
b. Straightening your legs enhances the workout.
c. Avoid this exercise if you have wrist or shoulder issues.
2. Pushups. Everyone knows the standard pushup position, so let's try some things to switch it up a bit.
* You can do pushups with your hands wider than shoulder width to obtain more of a shoulder and chest workout.
* If you bring your hands together into a diamond shape around the center of your chest you will work more of the triceps and shoulders.
* Working half pushups - either going only half way down and then back up, or commencing from the floor and mainly pushing up half way and then going back down - will enhance your pushup workout.
3. Crunches. Crunches are amazing for your abs if you do them properly. Done inaccurately, they can put excessive stress on your neck and back. To stay away from injury, make sure to use the correct techniques.
a. The most significant risk is jerking your neck to help you achieve the force to crunch. While doing crunches, keep your hands behind your head and your elbows back while employing your stomach muscles to lift your head and chin towards the ceiling.
b. Once you've perfected this tactic, try lifting your legs off the ground or assuming a bicycle position with one leg bent and the other straight off of the ground.
4. Squats. Body weight squats are a remarkable exercise you can do anywhere and a fantastic way to learn correct technique. Start off your squat workouts by lowering yourself only a foot or so. Then work up to deeper squats as your muscles become accustomed to the exercise.
* If you're feeling a bit advanced and in need of a more rigorous workout, grab two 2-liter bottles filled with sand and try executing squats while holding one in each hand.
5. Calf Lifts. Calf lifts may be done wherever there is a raised surface, such as a stairway. If you require balance, hold onto the railing. Facing the stairs, stand with only your toes on the stair and your feet extending out past it. Standing straight up, lower your body down below the level of the stair and then back up onto your toes.
a. Although it seems as if this is an ankle exercise, it even works out your calf muscles.
b. The most important priority on this exercise is the ability to go from an extreme negative position with ankle below toes to an extreme positive position, ankle entirely raised.
With these five exercises, you have a full body workout. Don't forget to pay attention to your body and take it easy initially. Soreness is a good thing, yet pain means that you must stop. Try these exercises out this week and experience the healthy difference of integrating fitness into your daily routine.
One last note, you can easily tighten, tone, and firm your trouble areas such as muffin top, back fat, love handles and cottage cheese thighs by putting on the ultimate body applicator herbal detox body wrap to those specific areas. These highly effective detoxing wraps can be worn while doing light tasks such as preparing dinner, helping the kids with homework, folding laundry, or after a hot shower before going to bed. You can even sleep in it. Keep in mind you should drink plenty of water.
About the Author:
An open letter to every overweight person in Redondo Beach: Redondo Beach Body Wrap. Also published at How To Go From Not To Hot With 5 Simple Exercises You Can Do Anywhere.
