no more gym.... help!!

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partygurlemma

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Firstly... Its been a while since I posted here (about 3 years), seems as though my account was deleted, the same name was available though, so hello to any old timers that might remember me.

I'm panicking a little and could do with a lil help. I am a single parent and have been working part time, so was still able to fit some gym sessions in. As of next week, I start full time, so I won't have any free time to get away and go to the gym.. I am starting to worry a little now that I'm going to end up saggy with no proper shape as I am a gym bunny no more. Ahhhh!!

I have free weights at home, but no weights bench... is it really possible to work the full body with no gym at all??? My fav resistance machine a the gym was the hip upductor and the lat pull down... What the hell am I going to do without these things?

I will be doing 40 mins brisk walk to work and 40 mins back, mon-fri.. I reckon that will prob be sufficient for cardio for the time being, its just the weights I'm panicking about.

Does anybody have any links to full body workout for at home??? What can I do for inner and outer thighs?? I'm gonna miss that machine
 
You can do:

Floor press with DB.
DB overhead press.
1 Hand DB Snatch.
Single leg Deadlift with weight in alternate hand.
Rows..
Chair dips

And Lat pulldown can never match pullups
 
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What can you do for inner and outer thighs? Squats. The inner thighs are the adductors, which are used in any compound lower body movement that uses a stance wider thanhip width apart and has the toes turns out. The other muscles of the thighs are the quadriceps and hamstrings, and they get worked as whole muscle groups, if not as the whole unit of the leg. The outer muscles of the quads and hammies make up the outer thigh muscles. So by strengthening the quads and hammies, the outer thighs take care of themselves. The abductor machine only works tiny little muscles in the hips.
 
partygurlemma said:
Firstly... Its been a while since I posted here (about 3 years), seems as though my account was deleted, the same name was available though, so hello to any old timers that might remember me.

I'm panicking a little and could do with a lil help. I am a single parent and have been working part time, so was still able to fit some gym sessions in. As of next week, I start full time, so I won't have any free time to get away and go to the gym.. I am starting to worry a little now that I'm going to end up saggy with no proper shape as I am a gym bunny no more. Ahhhh!!

I have free weights at home, but no weights bench... is it really possible to work the full body with no gym at all??? My fav resistance machine a the gym was the hip upductor and the lat pull down... What the hell am I going to do without these things?

I will be doing 40 mins brisk walk to work and 40 mins back, mon-fri.. I reckon that will prob be sufficient for cardio for the time being, its just the weights I'm panicking about.

Does anybody have any links to full body workout for at home??? What can I do for inner and outer thighs?? I'm gonna miss that machine
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As for as toning up and fat loss goes...98% of my progress was done without a gym.

Squats..believe it or not trimmed my inner and outer thighs down more effectively than pilates or those machines.

Pull ups can be a used as an alternative to the lat pulldown
DB bench presses on the floor or a mat.
 
so many options

quads go for squats, do bulgarian split squats, pistols, plyo squats for progressive overload

glute ham raise
push ups again there are many varieties for overload spiderman, plyo etc.varieties to hit your delts etc.
Inverted rows if you can find a bar that will suffice
dips
the list goes on and on and on...........
 
sorry I missed the dumbbell part. You have absolutely no limits to what you can do. If you really want that lat pull then get some bands and attach them to your door frame, sit on a ball and pull. Everything you can do with a barbell can be done with dumbbells.
 
you should invest into a squat/power rack and "maximum strength" book by Eric Cressey. Fast and real strength training workouts are in there.
 
Hey, I like to use Mens health Magazine Exercises, you could try Womens Health haha..

As for videos, you should try Toneitup on youtube.. ()

And here's a full body cardio workout that you can do at home:


goodluck!
 
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