A Guide To Exercise While Remaining Economical

By Alice Perterson

All of us want to stay healthy, and fit, which requires some type of exercise to be done on the daily basis. Due to the international economic crisis, everyone is going through a period of financial crunch, therefore everyone wants to save money rather than spending it on gym membership, or on buying numerous exercise equipments. Like everything thing, there are always alternatives for it. There are exercise equipments that can be put to multiple uses, such as abs machine, or bun, and thigh gadgets. For cardio exercises, or working out your abs, you should buy an exercise ball, which can save a lot of your money, and time as well. Although there are multi-station home gyms available, but they are too expensive for one person as they cost around five hundred dollars.

You do not have to go to gym for exercise daily; instead, you can easily set up a simple home gym by buying some weights, and add to it whatever is available. To perform the exercise, you can get help from hundreds of exercise videos available on video rental stores, you can stay tuned on exercise TV channel on your cable, or you can download various exercise videos from the internet. Walking, and running are the exercises, which do not require any equipment, and they are good for building stamina, and getting strength.

There are always free resources for everything; it is up to you to avail them. There are many libraries, which contain informative stuff like videos, and books on exercise, and there are guides available for health, diet, and fitness. Even if you cannot go to a library, there are many free online resources containing exercise videos of famous trainers on the internet from where you can benefit. One more thing that you can do is to join online forums, and groups where you have discussion with the like-minded people, and seek advice on diet, and exercise.

If you do not have any wiggle room for extra exercise equipment, you do not have to worry, as there are number of exercises that require nothing more than the person him/her self. These exercises include squats, lunges, push-ups, bicycle crunches, triceps dips, back extensions, etc.

Sometimes space becomes a problem, your house may not have enough space to accommodate big exercise machines, and in this case, you can do exercises that do not require any equipment at all. Some of these exercises are squats, lunges, push-ups, bicycle crunches, triceps dips, back extensions, and many more. For the cardio exercise, you can do the following: jumping jacks, knee lifts, power squats, joggling, or other such exercises, which work on your heart rate.

To make sure that your exercises give a positive result, you should increase the tension time on the concerned muscle. You should also increase the number of sets in an exercise gradually to make it more affective.

Personal training is a good option, but if you are on budget exercise, it can be an expensive prospect. You can choose a partner-training programme that would reduce your cost as your partner will be sharing half of the amount, and in this way, you also get motivation for your workouts. It is advisable to choose a partner who has the same fitness level as yours.

Another good option is to register with an online personal training programme. It would save you money, and any travelling cost. You also have the luxury of tools like workout calendars, exercise instructions, and email reminders. - 29969

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