Apartment Workouts

In this day and age, it can be difficult to find time to get to the gym and maintain a healthy exercise regimen. And it can be challenging trying to fit exercise equipment in the limited space in your apartment. However, there are many ways you can get a workout in your apartment. Here are a few tips from ApartmentGuide.com to keep your heart rate up and your weight down.

Exercise videos
Made big during the 80s, exercise videos are a great way to get a structured exercise routine going. Today, workout options available have gone far beyond the Jane Fonda workout. You can find exercise videos that include aspects of dance, yoga or martial arts. Get a few different ones and you can vary your workouts to keep from getting bored.

Exercise bands and balls
While you may not have room for big, bulky exercise equipment in your place, you can still get a great workout using exercise bands and an exercise ball, also known as a Swiss ball.
Exercise bands use the principle of resistance to help build and tone muscle. In as little as 10 minutes you can undergo a moderately intense workout.

The abdominal muscles and back muscles are the focus of exercise ball fitness programs. You can even get a workout by sitting on an exercise ball instead of a chair while working at a computer or watching TV, since this position requires you to engage the abdominal and back muscles and maintain proper posture to remain balanced on the ball.

Video games that get you moving
Video game consoles have moved from providing sedentary entertainment that wasted hours to immersive systems that encourage you to get up and off your couch and moving around.

The latest illustration of this is the revolutionary Nintendo Wii. It uses a unique control system that requires you to swing your arms around, mimicking the motion in real life that’s required in the game. With a game that’s active enough, such as Wii Sports, you can get a respectable aerobic workout. The Wii Fit balance board takes exercising while gaming a step further with games designed to increase your strength, fitness and flexibility.

Another good option for video game based activity is Dance Dance Revolution. In Dance Dance Revolution, a player must move his or her feet to a set pattern, stepping in time to the general rhythm or beat of a song. The more steps you hit, the higher your score, and generally the more intense your workout. Playing this game can result in some serious exercise if done for extended periods.

Move it and lose it
When you’re home, just remember to keep moving. Stand in the doorway and do leg kicks while dinner’s cooking, or stretch and do crunches/leg lifts/handweights in reps during commercials on TV. Buy some dance music and dance around your apartment. Anything that gets the heart rate up will burn calories.

Around your apartment community
If working out inside your apartment just isn’t doing it for you, there are probably other options for activity in your apartment community. Many apartment communities have small gyms or weight rooms on the grounds or offer discounts for gyms nearby. Check in with your leasing office to see what they offer. Some communities have pools or tennis courts residents can use to get in some activity. You can also walk around your apartment community or building.


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