Basic Home Equipment When You’re Snowed In
-Jump rope
-Resistance bands
-Mini-bands
-Physioball and/or a medicine ball
-Mat
Now let’s focus on how you can get your workout in if you don’t have access to a gym. There are a couple of workouts that will get the job done:
Body Weight Workout
1. Start with a dynamic warmup (ex. Hip opener, quad stretch, hamstring stretch). Then get the heart rate up a bit with high knees or (running in place), followed by jumping jacks, mountain climbers and burpees. You can go for 20 seconds each.
2. Next, warm up the core by going into planks. Try to hold for 30 seconds to a minute.
3. Now you’re ready for your workout.
-Bodyweight squats-3 sets of 12-15 reps
-Next, Bodyweight lunges-3 sets of 12-15 reps
-Then, Bodyweight side lunges-3 sets of 12-15 reps
-Hip bridging-3 sets of 12-15 reps
-Pushups-3 sets of 10-12 reps
-Supermans-3 sets of 5 reps (this is great spine extension work for the back)
-Tricep dips-3 sets of 12-15 reps