Home gym
February 27, 2010
Every now and then when I get pushed for time or just dont have the inclination to go to the gym I train at home. Often, my home workouts can feel more intense than gym workouts because you can sweat and make funny noises to your hearts delight (just explain whats going on to your housemates) and you’re not standing waiting for the guy in the squat rack to finish his bicep curls!
Below is the stuff I use most often. Not a lot at all! I’ve got a 24kg Kettlebell (32kg bell coming on its way in the post!), couple of dumbbells, an ab wheel and some push up bars.
When I train at home I dont necessarily follow a routine. I just do circuits and mess around and do what feels right.
Today for example I did a few warm up exercises with the dumbbells, just general, whatever I felt like doing. Then I did a circuit of the following:
KB pass arounds x10 each way
KB swings x20
KB clean and press 5 each side
Bent over rows with the KB with palms facing forward 10 each side
Ab rolls outs x10
Then on the push up bars I did L-sits, going into tuck then beginner planche sit into handstand. I played around with each move for a couple of minutes.
I repeated that circuit 3 times. Non stop. Doesn’t take long and is just enough to feel like you’ve had a workout and keep you ticking over.
I’ll write demo articles soon about the L-sits etc…I dont actually do push ups on my push up bars! Each workout tends to be completely different and just varies depending on how I’m feeling and what my body feels like doing. I just make sure the workouts intense for the 20 mins or so it takes.
