These Beginners’ Exercises are the Easiest Way to Workout at Home

It doesn?t take a genius to figure out that one of the very first steps you?re going to have to take in the journey towards your perfect body starts with frequent exercise. Working out on a regular basis helps to form that amazing physique you?ve been obsessing about every time you run the last few steps to work or pick up your dumb-bells at home.

Unfortunately, the fast-paced world in which we live doesn?t always leave enough time to worry about joining up for a gym membership or hitting the pool every day after work. You are not missing much anyhow unless you want to be in a germ infested environment with every guy around you staring at one attractive female. So if you can?t get your workouts at a fitness facility and if you really do not want to, what are you supposed to do?

In short, take your exercises home with you. The following are some of the easiest exercises to engage in from the comfort of your own home. These workout tips are particularly suitable for beginners who are just starting to get in shape, so you?ve got no excuse not to give them a try.

1. Press Ups

To get started with some fantastic press-ups, begin by getting into the position with your back flat and your hands placed a shoulder-width apart. If you?re doing it right, your body should form a straight line all the way from your heels to your head. Once you?re ready, lower your body towards the ground until your chest is practically brushing the carpet, and then drive your weight up by extending your arms.

This motion utilizes various muscle groups throughout your body to encourage maximum growth, while strengthening your shoulder joints at the same time, allowing you to progress to more demanding shoulder workouts.

2. Dumbbell Squat

With a dumbbell firmly grasped in the palm of each hand, position yourself so that your legs are about a shoulder width apart. Sit back into the squat with your back straight and your head up, until your dumbbells are a couple of inches from the floor. Make sure that you keep your chest out and your knees over your toes, but don?t lead forward or arch your back as you start to drop down.

Take a second to breathe out, then straighten your legs again. Squats offer a wonderful all-over exercise when it comes to building muscle strength, and the dumbbells give you the opportunity to focus on your movement and technique.

3. Farmer?s Walk

This exercise probably sounds a lot more relaxing than it actually is. Start off by grabbing one of your heaviest dumbbells in each hand. By heavy, we mean something close to maybe half of your total bodyweight. Hold the dumbbells at your sides and stand up as tall as possible with your shoulders straight back. Walk forwards quickly using brief, short steps. This move is outstanding for hitting your front deltoids, upper traps, and shoulder stabilizers. It?s also particularly tremendous for improving grip strength, which will improve your success with other lifting exercises too.

4. Lateral Raise

Start by holding a light dumbbell in each of your hands, and slowly lift the weights outwards to the sides of your body until the amount to approximately shoulder height. Try not to lift the dumbbells any higher than this and don?t cheat yourself by swinging the weights back and forth. Pause for a moment, then lower your arms back towards your sides as carefully and slowly as possible. Remember, you?ll build more muscle by fighting against gravity. This is a great exercise when it comes to visibly developing your shoulder. It helps to isolate your medial deltoid, which helps you develop shoulder mass and width.

If you do a few sets of these it will not take you too long to be a little stronger and fitter than Walter White in Breaking Bad.

5. Plank

Start off by organizing your body as though you?re about to start doing press-ups. However, instead of resting your weight on your hands, use your forearms instead. Tense your glutes and abs and make sure that your back is as straight as possible, then hold the position for as long as you can, without permitting your hips to fall down towards the floor.

Constant crunches can put a lot of pressure on your spine, whereas planks offer the perfect opportunity for building your core in a way that keeps you free from injury and gifts you with the six pack you?ve always wanted. Crunches, when done incorrectly, can also give you a set of distended abs ? which doesn?t look good! Yes, you will certainly still look better than Homer Simpson though.