Doing exercises is very good for health as it not only gives a good body shape but also keeps you healthy and fit. Often people get lazy or busy that they skip doing exercises. Few of the very common reasons to skip exercising are having no time to go to gym, lack of self-motivation, no guide and laziness. We have come up with 5 simple workouts guide. We assure you that doing these exercises on a regular basis can help your body get in good shape.
Crack the laziness factor with these simple in-house fitness tips
1. Jumping Rope Exercise / Skipping Ropes
A jumping rope, also known as skipping rope, is exercising equipment with a handle at two ends of the rope. You should hold the rope’s handle using your hands and swing it across your own body. When it reaches near your toes, you must make a jump. The rope then comes back again to your toes and you jump again. Do this exercise for few minutes. At the first attempt, you might not do this in a good speed but as you practice, you will start doing jumps in a decent speed.
Jumping rope exercise is a wonderful calorie burner and it is also good for your heart. It is said that performing Jumping ropes exercise for 10 minutes is equal to running 12 kilometres.
2. Chair Squats
3. Push-ups
Most of you know what a push-up exercise is. Push-ups help engage the chest muscles, arm muscles and improve the upper body strength. People who are not used to doing push-ups will definitely find it difficult to do the actual way. In this case, do the push-up exercise by keeping your hands on the bed and feet on the floor. Once you get used to push-ups, you can start doing normal push-ups (hands and feet on the floor)
If you still want to improve, do the opposite of the basic. You can keep your hand on the floor and feet on the bed and do a declined push-up.
4. Mountain Climbing Exercise
This exercise helps engaging your chest, triceps, core muscles, shoulders, hips and hamstrings. As the name suggests, you would be replicating a movement which is very similar to climbing a mountain. With both your hands and feet on the floor in a plank position, start bringing your legs to the chest one by one. This is just like keeping your hands fixed on the floor and running. The faster you are able to move your legs, the effective this exercise will be.
5. Bicycle Crunches
While the above 4 workouts concentrates on upper body and legs, this one is for your abs. While lying on the bed, place your hands behind the head and keep your knees bent at 90 degree. Raise one of your legs such that your calves are parallel to the ground level and your thighs are perpendicular to the ground. In this instance, when you raise your left leg, lift up your upper body and touch the left leg’s knee with the right elbow and then bring back the leg and shoulder to first position. Follow the same step for your left elbow which would touch the right knee.
Bicycle crunches are easier than the normal crunches and hence this is a chosen one for a person who has just started doing exercises. Doing on the bed gives your back a good cushion and pushes you to do more than normal.
With these basic exercises which you can easily do in your own room, you now have no reasons to escape. Just remember, “Health is Wealth”. Are you motivated to start doing regular exercises?
