Make Most of Your Beginner Home Workout with These Exercises

There's a perception that home workouts can be quite challenging because working out every day requires a high level of motivation.

When you work out in a group or class, motivation comes rather easy, as you see other people work out. However, to do it at home every single day can be quite a challenge, especially if you're low on motivation.

Some ways to motivate yourself can be to draw up a plan of which days you are going to work out and for how much time. Following a low-calorie diet can also improve motivation to work out. You can also put up posters and pictures as self motivation; if you look at a photograph of how you want yourself to look, it can be highly motivating.

In this article, we will give you a few beginner level home workout ideas that you can incorporate into your routine. Remember that you must divide your workouts into upper body, lower body and core if you want to be successful in losing weight. Keeping a few minutes aside every day for cardio is also a good idea.

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Beginner Home Workouts

Check out the following home workouts for beginners that you need to try:

1) Glute Bridge

The bridge is an excellent home workout for stimulating the abdominals and posterior chain. As a pre-workout routine, it's superb.

Instructions:

• Spread your arms out to the sides, and lie on your back with the knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
• By driving through your toes and stabilizing the abs, you can lift your pelvis off the floor and squeeze your glutes at the top, simulating a full hip extension.
• Reverse your motion, and repeat from the start.

2) Chair Squat

Looking to get a leg workout at home? Try this excellent exercise that will strengthen and tone the quadriceps. The squat is a staple in every home workout, helping improve overall strength in the body.

Instructions:

• Your feet should be hip-width apart in front of a chair and toes pointed outwards.
• You can do a forward fold by bending at the hips and knees and lowering yourself till your bottom touches the chair.
• To get back to the starting position, drive up through your heels.

3) Knee Push-up

Push-ups are one of the best chest workouts at home that you can do. This variation of the push-up is a common inclusion in beginner home workouts, as it helps develop core muscles in preparation for a more advanced push-up.

Instructions:

• Raise yourself up onto your knees into a high plank position.
• Keep your body in a straight line from head to knees as you stoop by bending at the elbows. Hold a 45-degree angle with your elbows.
• Come back down, and push up again.

4) Bicycle Crunch

Try this abs workout at home if you're looking to build those muscles. Although the core will be engaged in most of these strength-building activities, a dedicated ab exercise will never hurt anyone. This is one of the best home workouts for the abs, requiring no equipment, and is easy-to-do.

Instructions:

• Lie flat on your back with the legs extended in front of you like a table. Make a U-shape with the elbows, and place the hands behind your head.
• In a crunching motion, straighten your right leg as you bring your right elbow to your left knee.
• Relax the grip just a little bit. Keep your left leg bent and right one straight, and bring the left elbow to your right knee.
• Repeat to complete the required number of sets.

5) Superman

This is an excellent starting point for beginners looking for a back workout at home. Superman is an excellent home workout, working out the back muscles, especially in the spinal column.

Instructions:

• Put your arms and legs out in front of you, and lie on your stomach.
• With your head still in a neutral position, lift your arms and legs off the ground as high as you can using the core and back of the body.
• Hold for a full second at the peak, and slowly return to the bottom.

6) Forearm Plank

This may be a surprising inclusion in a beginner home workout routine, but the plank is a necessary exercise that everyone must do. If you cannot perform the forearm or high plank initially, start with knee planks (just like knee push-ups) to slowly build up your endurance.

Instructions:

• Plank position is when you're up on your forearms. Maintain a direct line from head to feet at all times.
• Try not to slouch in the hips and lower back. Continue that for 30 seconds to one minute.

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Apart from the aforementioned exercises, you should also include cardio workouts at home to maintain your heart health and burn some extra calories. Full body home workouts are not very difficult to plan. All they require on your part is some motivation, dedication, and commitment.