Friday Fitness: At Home Fitness
Friday Fitness: At Home Fitness
No one can deny the fact that we need to workout, and regularly. In this day and age with all the science and research we have supporting the fact that regular movement is essential for our health we get to do preventative work when we are young that will pay off as we get older, some of which, includes, building strength and lean muscle tone, keeping our weight in check and ensuring heart health.
Regular exercise also greatly reduces risks factors for chronic disease, including, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other malevolent conditions, like certain cancers.
While there are some people who value the formality of going to a gym at a set time each day for their workout, there are some who have neither the time, the budget nor the inclination to do so. They prefer doing their exercising in the privacy of their home.
9 Benefits Of A Home Gym
1. In bad weather, you don’t have to miss out on your workout just because you can’t
go to the gym.
2. When you’re busy checking emails, you can mount your tablet on the exercise bike or treadmill and read emails while you pedal or run.
3. If you have to watch the kids, you can put the crib or playpen within your line
of sight from your home gym. If you need to supervise your kids as they do their homework, you can do it from the weight bench.
4. If you work from home and you need to be by the phone, you can bring the cordless phone with you and answer calls as they come without missing your workout.
5. If repairs to your home are being done, you can still be physically present and still do your workouts.
6. More importantly, couple time between you and your spouse or partner can be initiated during workouts. You can be workout buddies and feel closeness and intimacy and talk while working out and getting fit. Two birds, one stone.
7. You can also include your entire family in your workout. Children can develop good exercise habits when they see their parents modelling exercise behavior and nothing shows a bigger commitment than a home gym. You can impart life lessons about motivation, patience, industry, dedication, discipline, resourcefulness and goal-setting while you and your children engage in physical fitness exercises.
8. You can have your kids invite their friends over and make fun fitness days, which imparts positive reinforcement of exercise and therefore, ingrains important habits into their lives.
9. You can invite your girlfriends or your sister and other female members of your family for a girls’ workout date at home. That way, you can bond with your extended family and still do your workouts. A healthy meal after the workout would be a good way to bond as well, with everyone doing their part to prepare a healthy and delicious meal, which, of course includes the kids.
All of these are GREAT reasons to build a home gym!
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