What's a fun, cheap, solo workout someone can do at home?
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
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- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
Get some resistance bands, they're fairly cheap and you can do about a thousand different exercises with them.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Bench and dumbbells with weights.
You can do bro splits adapted to dumbbells and skip legs (no one actually cares about legs
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Personally I don't think that workout can be fun by itself, there bound to be exercises that you will hate but you can have fun while exercising. -
Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
Gonna be tough with no feet. If you have a place to hang some rings they’re cheap and you can do a bunch of stuff with them. If you can do an unloaded squat, in volume, that opens a lot too.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
Calisthenics.
If you have a little money to spare, get some good exercise bands.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
You might have a look at Darebee workouts/programs. Can search by 'upper', 'abs', etc to cut out a lot of stuff your foot might have trouble with.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
Pilates! You can grab the book return to life for pretty cheap and it gives a breakdown of the classical mat work. It can be done on a yoga mat or some plush carpet pretty easily.
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Bench and dumbbells with weights.
You can do bro splits adapted to dumbbells and skip legs (no one actually cares about legs)
Personally I don't think that workout can be fun by itself, there bound to be exercises that you will hate but you can have fun while exercising.Strengthen your legs for yourself, not anyone else
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
Check out FitnessBlender.com. All home exercises and all free. However, for myself I found that I needed more structure so I bought a few plans like for $10 even though their videos are free. The scheduling kept me more accountable
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Strengthen your legs for yourself, not anyone else
With leg injuries it's better to be cautious, especially if someone isn't even able to hike or ride a bici.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
Try Pornhub... bonus points for being a Canadian site if you're boycotting US stuff /s
Jokes aside, try the basic stuff that don't require a machine, like planks. Just make sure it doesn't put any
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With leg injuries it's better to be cautious, especially if someone isn't even able to hike or ride a bici.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Absolutely, just saying they are still important to work on for people who can, even if you are more likely to be complimented on arms, abs, etc.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]If you're looking for low impact, there are lots of great step workouts on YT that I like to use whenever I need to shake things up a little. My go-to is Get Fit With Rick.
Doing pilates is good exercise as well if you can't put any weight on that foot.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
Piggybacking onto this one, but with a specific ask: same as OP but:
- limited mobility
- spinal issues, no to low impact on spine
- aimed at reducing belly fat, and
- increasing muscles supporting spine eg core
- upper body strength as a stretch objective.
Genuine ask. Appreciate any advice.
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Piggybacking onto this one, but with a specific ask: same as OP but:
- limited mobility
- spinal issues, no to low impact on spine
- aimed at reducing belly fat, and
- increasing muscles supporting spine eg core
- upper body strength as a stretch objective.
Genuine ask. Appreciate any advice.
Belly fat is unfortunately just calorie reduction. You can't target fat on specific parts of the body, just overall.
Improving core strength with no impact on the spine is tough, as most core exercises will likely engage the back and spine. I would try to implement standard, good form push ups if you can. Planking is also an option, but again form is king. Do them properly, for less time instead of "cheating" with loose form if you want to make improvements.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
Not sure how well you'd do this with a bad foot but I've felt better doing bodyweight fitness. Works your core and calisthenics.
What I like about the routine is you can start at level 1 and once you're comfortable you can increase the difficulty. Nearly all of it is equipment free. Maybe resistance bands or a pull up bar.
Push ups:
- standing wall push ups
- incline push ups (kitchen counter works well)
- traditional push ups
- more
Try the build up. Even just the stretching and basics would be a good work out if you're out of shape.
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Piggybacking onto this one, but with a specific ask: same as OP but:
- limited mobility
- spinal issues, no to low impact on spine
- aimed at reducing belly fat, and
- increasing muscles supporting spine eg core
- upper body strength as a stretch objective.
Genuine ask. Appreciate any advice.
My orthopedic doctor recommended to me exercising with elastic bands (cheap at any drugstore). It's low impact and you can easily control how difficult it is.
Not the exercises I was given but this video gets the idea across
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Weights don't have to be barbells. You can just pick up heavy things. Go to the park and try to lift the stone garbage can containers or rearrange your furniture.
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Piggybacking onto this one, but with a specific ask: same as OP but:
- limited mobility
- spinal issues, no to low impact on spine
- aimed at reducing belly fat, and
- increasing muscles supporting spine eg core
- upper body strength as a stretch objective.
Genuine ask. Appreciate any advice.
As far as increasing strength in the muscles supporting the spine:
these exercises
and these exercisesAs long as they don’t cause you pain. I’ve had a broken vertebra in my low back for over a decade and these exercises help me manage the pain.
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Bonus points for low impact and cheap/free. I have a foot injury and can't run/bike/hike for a bit.
Editing this to say:
- Thank you all for the suggestions, I love the Lemmy community, and,
- I know a lot of workouts can be done at home, and these are all great ideas. However, I bike/hike because I have trouble motivating myself to just work out as an activity. I trick myself using fun, but I don't know how to make indoor excercise exciting.
pushups and planks
