Home Fitness Exercise Program

If you find yourself winded getting up to get the remote or notice that your belly wiggles like jelly when you move, you need a home fitness exercise program to get you fit again. It doesn't matter what age you are, if you're living a sedentary life, eventually you'll be all flab and subject to health problems unless you have some form of activity to get your heart pumping and keep your muscles toned.

The reasons for no exercise vary from a heavy work schedule to no money. Neither has to be a block to the road to fitness. You can exercise each day in blocks of three to five-minute intervals and get back on the road to fitness. However, you'll have to pack a few of those three-minute blocks into one day. If you're a television watcher, you can do a start a set at the beginning of commercials and have just enough time to complete it before the program is back. As far as money goes, most exercises don't require equipment so there's no additional out of pocket expense.

For a complete exercise program, you need strength training exercises, cardio-vascular exercises and flexibility exercises.  You can alternate the cardio and strength training exercises daily or do short bursts of cardio exercises each day and alternate the strength training with upper body one day and lower body the next. You should do some form of flexibility training each day.  Flexibility training is nothing more than stretching before you exercise. It helps prevent strains and pulls that can put you out of commission for a while.

For those who have a tight schedule, burst training is the perfect fit for your cardio training. Burst training requires you to do 30 to 60 seconds of maximum all out speed or effort, followed by 30 to 60 seconds of recovery at low impact or jogging. You need to do four to six sets of burst training, which amounts to between four minutes and 12 minutes, depending on the length of the burst and the number of reps.  Tests conclude that those who use burst training, as opposed to traditional jogging or running, achieve fitness faster.  It can save you hours and is as easy as running in place in the kitchen while you wait for your supper to finish cooking or you could use the SpinGym and have fun while losing weight

Breaking down the strength training to various exercises you can do in five-minute intervals, makes it a perfect fit for the couch potato. You don't have to have barbells or other special equipment for these exercises. Often simply throwing a blanket on the floor or using a cushy rug can provide you with an area for fitness. You can do exercises that involve you pushing the wall of your home to the next room. Of course, you won't move it, hopefully, but it will build muscles just as though you were lifting barbells or moving the wall itself. Make sure you push on an area with a stud under the sheetrock.

Flexibility training is nothing more than stretching and you should do that before you begin each day or each set of exercises. It's important to have your body prepared for movement and stretching does just that.  A fun form of flexibility training you can do with the kids or even alone is dancing. This is not ballroom dancing or disco, it's simply movement to music. You reach for the sky, bend to the ground to the rhythms, and simply have fun with it. Your home fitness exercise program doesn't have to involve long hours, a grueling schedule or special equipment to be effective.