Exercising at home?

@myidentitymycrisis Yoga with Adriene on You Tube. Obviously not noisy/high impact but so good for you.

I’m in an upstairs flat with virtually no sound insulation. Any ideas what I can do indoors that won’t make me very unpopular?

I did 30 day shred today. I had forgotten how tough it is if you keep up. Going to keep doing it. Bought the dvd when it came out and had only ever done it once so nice to finally dust it off!

Would highly recommend Les Mills on Demand. I do Body Balance, Body Combat, Barre (a ballet one), Sh'bam (a dance workout) and Body Step.

You pay about £10 per month, but the quality and range is so much better than most of the workouts on You Tube.

Bought myself a skipping rope and have started doing that outside on our patio.

10 minutes of skipping = 30 minutes of jogging, apparently.

I'm used to going to the gym 4-5 times a week although I do admit to doing the same routine quite often.

Seeing as the gyms are shut (and I'm stuck inside for 12 weeks) I dig out JM's 30 day Shred and bloody hell, I forgot how hardcore this is if you stick to it rigidly and don't take any breaks within the half an hour.

I'd better see some difference in 30 days though!

I have cracked out my two Davina DVDs and doing one of them every other day. I am also running every other day and walking my dogs. I am going to be a FitasFuck Raging Alkie by July.

@ItsNotAboutTheChocolate I can recommend the Joe Wicks PE sessions with teens. I’ve done it every day with our 16 and 17 year olds and they are following that up with a group chat yoga and conditioning sessions with friends. Joe Wick has almost killed me but they are really enjoying it, especially doing it live, because they are then up and ready to do some of the mountains of school work they are being set!

I bought a vertical stepper to use indoors. It’s sturdy and pretty compact.
Managed 30 mins today, will try that every day

I already have kettle bells and weights so am using them and have been doing press ups and sit ups. but I do not feel achy or anything so I think it's probably not enough.

I'm going a bit overboard - do Joe Wicks in the morning with the 11 yo, and Jillian Michaels 30 day shred at lunch with my 17yo. A bit of yoga when I feel the stress building too much.

I also run outside every day. I'm aiming to set up the bike roller (currently hidden in the cellar).

Something has to counteract all the chocolate and wine I'm consuming.....

Have a look at Joe Wicks PE on YouTube. Its more of a workout than I thought it’d be. I’d imagine a 16 year old could do any of his workouts too

Insanity is very good.

Do you have any gym equipment at home?

Sorry for the hijack but are there any online classes that would be good for a 16-year old boy? DS going nuts, as am I

Our leisure centre is offering free Les Mills on demand

I've signed up to Davina's 'Own Your Goals' website as it's free for 30 days. Started yesterday with the intermediate workouts and it was good, although I couldn't follow the yoga at the end!

I also follow PureGym on Instagram, it's the gym group I'm a member of. They have free content and the legs, bums n tums class on Monday was really good - much harder than my usual class!

I follow a couple of PureGym "insiders" on Insta, as week as Joe Wicks, Fitness Blender, Blogilates and Yoga with Adrienne on YouTube. It's good to have a few accounts to follow just to mix it up.

Doing my Insanity max30 DVD’s.
Intense , but it works

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I bought one of these today in the hope I can cobble together a body pump routine using it as I cant find weights anywhere else

I love cycling, so bought a turbo trainer for my bike. It's basically a stand, you slot the back wheel into it and then there's a roller thing to provide resistance, and you pedal away. Our back garden is small, but it doesn't take up much room. I got it second hand from a local bike shop for £25.

The FitOn app has loads of free 15-30 min workouts. Some are live, some are prerecorded. I am going to try some of those.

Just joined the Davina website for the free 30 day trial and liking it so far!

I have 2 x 1kg weights, stairs and dance music on Spotify! I just dance madly and badly, run up and down stairs, jog on the spot and stretch and box with the weights for 20 to 40 mins a day. Coupled with 2 x hour long, brisk dog walks daily, i stay pretty toned and it all lifts my mood and reduces my appetite. Completely free!

I've done body combat a few times from youtube

I like Jillian Michaels but you do need to watch as some of them are quite intense if you're not particularly fit to start with - you just need to do more stretching than she does at the end IMO... Banish Fat Boost Metabolism is cardio and doesn't require any equipment at all, but most of the rest you could do with a couple of water bottles or tins of beans as weights. I did the Shred for 2 days on Tues/Wed and still feeling my upper arms.

Have also been doing Yoga With Adriene in the evenings to try and help me sleep!

DS has been doing Joe Wickes PE session every morning and has enjoyed it, and a friend has raved about Oti Mabuse's dance sessions but I'm not co-ordinated enough for dance!

Davina's Own your goals is free for 30 days. It is really good.
I did the intermediate work out and my thighs are feeling it! The yoga is good.