Exercising at home is a very basic thing that you can do begin doing if your house is far from a fitness center or if you are trying to cut down on the expenses of using a fitness center facility. Sometimes, work or family commitments are also the reason why people begin to exercise at home.

Apart from having the benefits of not having to pay extra costs, the freedom of doing your workout on your own time, reducing traveling time back and forth to the fitness club, or even the ability to exercise at home while watching your favorite TV show or listening to your favorite CD is a bonus. However, disadvantages include not being motivated enough, lack of equipment, and having no Fitness Instructor to assist in guiding you.

Exercising at home can be done by creating a combination of many simple exercises whether to help you tone and firming your muscles or even doing an aerobic type of exercise in order for you to burn down on your fat. There are also several simple ways for you to workout in your home like doing laundry lifts or even stair climbing. This article will show you some of the simple workout that you can do at home to stay healthy without the need to go to a fitness center.

If you have a staircase in your house, you can do simple workouts by climbing the stairs. For example, you need to stand at the bottom of your staircase and do a warm-up session of walking on the spot for at least a minute. Once you have finished, you can start with stepping onto the first stair and back down where you need to repeat this movement only ten times. Next, you need to walk in place again for at least fifteen seconds before starting to walk up your first two stairs, then back down again and repeat this workout ten times. After that you need to go up three stairs, come down, walk up two stairs, come down, and finally walk up one stair and come down where you need to repeat this steps for ten times. If you are able to handle this type of workout, it is recommended that you continue the pattern up to ten stairs if you have enough energy. If you feel tired or dizzy, either stop or try doing it slowly.

An exercise that you can do using something that most people have at home is the laundry basket. This is particularly helpful for those who want to keep their arms toned, and have a laundry basket that is full. With this exercise, you can raise the basket on top of your head before you try to lift it upwards and back down at least by doing three repetitions of fifteen lifts each. By doing this exercise, you will be able to work on your shoulders, upper arms as well as upper back muscles. You can also do the workout by laying down flat on your back and lift the basket up and down from your chest