The most effective way to lose weight and keep it off is combining a healthy diet and exercise! Exercising consistently helps you burn body fat, build strength and muscle, improves your mood, and lessens the risk of disease. If you are someone who doesn’t have time to hit the gym everyday or prefers working out at home, you can still get a good sweat and burn some serious calories! Here are 5 of our best exercises that you can do at home to lose weight.
Walking
Walking has proven to be one of the most effective exercises for weight loss as well as the easiest to get started. Walking is a low impact and simple workout, that helps improve endurance, leg strength, heart health and balance. Walking 10,000 steps per day burns up to 600 extra calories per day! Getting outside to walk around your neighborhood or finding paths or hills to walk on will certainly help you increase calories burned per day and help lead to weight loss.
Step Ups
Step Ups are a great combined strength and cardio exercise that involves your entire lower body and really gets your heart going and your legs burning! Step ups can burn up to 200 calories every 10-15 minutes if done at a high intensity and can improve your lower body and back strength. This exercise improves posture and keeps your heart in good condition. Find a steady box or some stairs close by to get started. If you’d like to step it up (pun intended) then hold some weights to increase the challenge!
Yoga
If you are someone who prefers low-impact, joint sparing exercises but still want to build strength and lose weight, yoga is an excellent option! Yoga can not only help you lose weight, but it also improves your cardio health, muscle-tone, respiration, flexibility, and overall metabolism! While this practice is a great source of exercise, it also helps relax your mind and reduce stress. Pull out your yoga mat anywhere you have room in your house and get to work!
Incline Push-ups
Incline Push-ups are one of the most popular exercises and they can be done from pretty much anywhere. Adding incline can make one of the most difficult exercises (the push up!) a bit easier to accomplish. Incline push-ups are a body weight exercise which means that you are gaining strength by using your own body weight. They exert large amounts of energy and are a great way to lose weight and sculpt your upper-body. Push-ups target your chest, shoulders, biceps, triceps, back, and abs. By strengthening your core, you are building stability! Start by pushing off a kitchen counter, then move to the standard push ups on your knees. In no time, you can start practicing push-ups on your toes!
Squats
Like push-ups, squats can literally be done anywhere! However, squats target your lower body. They are great at strengthening and building muscle in your quads, hamstrings and glutes. Squats help you build mobility and balance while also activating the biggest muscles in the body!Exercising at home has its perks of being convenient and time efficient. There are so many different workouts out there that can help you lose weight right from your living room! Get creative, mix up your workout routines, but most importantly, just make sure you are moving your body every day!
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