About Your Weight Training at Home

About Your Weight Training at Home | Weight training at home can be rewarding and highly convenient. Or it can breed guilt as you keep missing your workouts...

First plan you workouts, get motivated, and evaluate your exercise equipment needs. Then you're off and running (or rather, lifting ;-) and getting real benefits!

Schedule It

First off, schedule regular workouts. Just because you're at home doesn't mean you'll always, "Just get to it later..."

In the beginning, pick a simple schedule and stick to it. Integrate it into your day and block off that time to weight train at home. (EX: After dropping the kids off at school, set aside 1 hour just for your workout.)

And as always, keep track of your workouts so you can see that you're improving. Or that you keep using the same weights and reps and need to kick it up a notch...

Motivation

Getting motivation to do your weight training at home is another sticking point, but here's a few tips that should make it easier and much more enjoyable:

Awesome Music!
Turn on some music at home that pumps you up! A movie soundtrack, your favorite CD, or Beethoven's Fifth - Whatever it takes to get you ready to go!

Training Buddy!

Get a buddy who's also exercising at home and compare notes. You'll keep each-other motivated, and give each-other a hard time if you slack off.

Something Awesome or Tasty!

Promise yourself that if you workout for a week, you'll buy yourself something special. To eat, to wear, whatever. Give yourself something to look forward to.

Expensive Machines and Equipment?

In the beginning, just say no! Elaborate home weightlifting equipment isn't what you need if you're just starting out.

If you've been working out regularly before and have done some workouts at home, then you can take the plunge. But if you're new to working out as well as weight lifting at home, you don't know if it's your thing yet.

Instead, w ork out for a few weeks at home doing body-weight workouts, jogging around your neighborhood, or borrowing a friend or neighbor's weights. That way, you can find out if exercising at home is something that you can fit into your schedule & have the motivation for.

So you won't have guilt, home exercise weight-sets, and dust gathering at home. You'll know you have the drive to do weight training at home and any money you spend on weights will be an investment in you body and not just your home decor.

Short Term Goal

Have a short term, measurable goal when you first start weight training at home. Give your workouts at home a good, honest trial for a short time and see how it works out.

Commit to doing your workouts for just 1 month, or 30 days. That's enough time to find out whether lifting at home is your thing, or not.

And it feels great hitting a goal, large or small.

Getting Started

So, look around and choose how you want to start your weight training at home. Find a borrow your friends weights, take a trial month, turn on the theme music from Rocky and go for it!

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