If you've made a New Year's resolution to shape up, the odds are against you: A full 80 percent of resolutions are broken in the first two months. So, how do you avoid becoming a statistic?
Resolutions often fail for logistical reasons. It's easy to make a big fitness goal, but harder to fit all your workouts within a packed schedule. Between the drive, the locker room, waiting for equipment, and the workout itself, the gym can take a significant chunk of time out of your day.
Enter the home workout. Removing at least some of the obstacles standing between you and your goals makes it way easier to stick to your plan.
These three workouts—created by fitness pros who know what it's like to be crazy busy—are a great place to start.
Jumping into fitness for the first time? Don't write a check your mind and body can't cash. Make an unglamorous but realistic commitment to comple one or two home workouts each week. Walk or do easy cardio in between.
Those with at least some fitness experience can shoot for 3-5 workouts a week. To challenge yourself, experiment with tougher variations of the prescribed exercises or add extra rounds.
If you're looking for a full home-workout program, check out Home Body, Ali Holman's 20-Minute Fit, or Total-Body Dumbbell Fix in the Bodybuilding.com app. These at-home programs are fully trackable and come with nutrition guides and tons of motivation!
1. Beginner Home Workout
This sequence, created by fitness athlete and social media phenom Lais DeLeon, is the ideal workout to give your lower body a push.
"I love this home lower-body workout because I can get a great pump in my legs and glutes without any equipment or complicated exercises," she says. "I do this workout in my hotel room when traveling and often add a hip circle band and dumbbells if I want to increase the intensity and difficulty."
