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How best to use my mini home gym?

  • 02-07-2007 11:13am
    #1
    foxy06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭


    I have an exercise bike, stepping machine, ab roller, thighmaster type thingy, and one of those things you use on your knees and hold the handles and roll out and back using your abs i assume, also a skipping rope and some very light weights (1.5lbs). What am I missing for a total body workout (I also do Brisk walking and swimming but can't always manage to get out of the house with the kids)
    Any ideas will be great.


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  • #2
    ali.c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭ali.c


    What are your goals? I wouldnt bother with the weights because tbh 1.5lbs well is nothing and is not going to help you really.
    You can do a minimum equipment workout and focus on bodyweight excercise which would be far more benifical than 1.5lbs weights.


  • #3
    foxy06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    well my goal is to lose weight and tone up. Not a specific aamount of weight or in a certain amount of time I just think I know where I want to be when I get there. I'm female by the way and I know your right about the weights but do you think I should get heavier ones or just use what I have?
    The main thing I want to do is set up a simple routine at home that I can do every evening at home.
    Another thing, Do I do cardio before or after toning excercises or does it even matter?
    Cheers Ali


  • #4
    ali.c
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭ali.c


    i wouldnt bother getting heavier weights yet tbh, but i also wouldnt bother using the ones you have either. Just use your bodyweight, so stuff like press-ups, incline pressups, bodyweight squats, lunges, then as you progress you can add in stuff like handstands pistols etc. when i was started out wasabi gave me this http://skievat.blogspot.com/ she posts a no equipment crossfit style daily workout. Also I'd do the cardio afterwards. So say you went for a run, you are unlikely to having anything left to give to the resistance training, whereas if its the other way around its more likely!

    On the weightloss thing, alot of it comes down to diet so have a read through the stickies.

    Also not having specific goals makes it more difficult, seeing real progress is a great motivator. So i would suggest setting yourself some goals, be they today i am going to eat clean and do a workout. Or i aim to lose 1-2lbs of bodyfat this week. Rather than i want to lose some weight, the first is a quantified specific and time related goal, you will knw if you reached it or not, the second is open ended and well more difficult to tell if you reached it or not!


  • #5
    foxy06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,138 ✭✭✭foxy06


    Thanks for your replies Ali. I'll set about setting some goals so!


  • #6
    allabouttone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭allabouttone


    ali.c wrote:
    What are your goals? I wouldnt bother with the weights because tbh 1.5lbs well is nothing and is not going to help you really.
    You can do a minimum equipment workout and focus on bodyweight excercise which would be far more benifical than 1.5lbs weights.

    agreed.

    you seem to have a good setup though.


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