Do You Really Need A Gym Membership To Build A Solid Physique?

You can save a fortune and still get into the best shape of your life

Most of us don’t have enough time or desire to go to the gym regularly, which leaves us with the reason for not buying a gym membership. This prevents us from getting the physique that we can have, leaving us to stay unfit and unhealthy.

But what if we can do all that workout at home with minimal to no equipment? Would you still say no to the workout? With the constantly evolving fast-paced life, it is going to become a necessity soon.

And the best part about these bodyweight exercises is that most of them are compound exercises i.e, they train more than one muscle group at a time, thus training more in less time.

With that said, let’s see how we can get into the best shape of our life just by the comfort of our house. It’s not going to be comfortable, though, and a workout should never be comfortable.

Back and biceps

What do you do to train your back and biceps? You pull, right? Now let’s replicate the movement with our own bodyweight.

Pull-up is one of the best exercises to train these parts of your body, and if done right, it will engage your core, which will help you with stability.

You can easily find a pull-up bar (or anything with the help of which you can hang) in your house, backyard, or a park or ground near your house.

Now, let’s see how to engage one muscle group more than the other:

1. For more back engagement, you can do pull-ups with palms facing opposite to your face.
2. For more biceps engagement, you can do pull-ups with palms towards your face.

To make these exercises difficult, you can do the L-sit variation of them, in which, instead of keeping your legs perpendicular to the ground, you will keep them parallel to the ground.

To make them even more difficult, you can do their explosive variants, like the clapping pull-ups.

Chest, Triceps, and Shoulders

What do you do to train your chest, triceps, and shoulders? You push, right? Now let’s replicate the movement with our own bodyweight.

Push-up is the go-to exercise to train these parts of your body, and if done right, it will engage your core, which will help you with stability.

Now, let’s see how to engage one muscle group more than the other:

1. For more triceps engagement, you can do close grip push-ups i.e, diamond push-ups.
2. For more shoulder and upper chest engagement, you can do decline or pike push-ups. You can do pike push-ups by lifting your hips upward towards the ceiling and bringing your hands a little bit closer to your legs.
3. For lower chest engagement, you can do normal or elevated push-ups.

You can add explosiveness to make these exercises more challenging, like doing a clapping variation of all the above.

Abs

There are a lot of options when it comes to training your abs.

One of the most popular exercises for training your abs is plank hold. There are many other options like sit-ups, leg raises, and boat hold. There are some difficult core exercises too, like, while hanging, toes to the bar and while lying down, dragon-flag.

For this article, let’s go with the plank, but you can feel free to explore new ab exercises.

To increase the difficulty of planks, you can lift one leg above the ground or increase the distance between your elbows and foot by decreasing the angle made by your elbows with the ground.

For training your obliques, you can do the one-sided planks keeping your obliques engaged, or you can also do Russian-twists as shown below.

To increase the difficulty of Russian-twists, you can remove the contact of legs with the ground by lifting them, and by lifting something heavy with your hands.

Legs

The squat is the one-stop exercise to train almost all the lower body muscle groups, i.e, quadriceps, glutes, hamstrings, and calves. And if done right, it will engage your lower back and core too.

Now, let’s see how to engage one muscle group more than the other:

1. For more quads and calves engagement, you can do jump squats.
2. For more hamstrings and glutes engagement, you can do the Bulgarian split squat by lifting one leg behind your body and keeping it on an elevated surface having a height up to a little bit above your knees.

For making the squats more difficult, you can lift a heavy object and then perform the squats, or make it even more challenging by doing the single-leg squats.

And there you go, you have a battalion of exercises to get into the best shape of your life that you can perform with the comfort of your house.

All these exercises can work wonders for you if you are consistent with your workout plan and have an eye on what you put into your body i.e, nutrition.

Thanks for reading!!

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