Who you gonna call....

Excuse Busters!!!

Does this sound familiar? "I can't workout because I don't have any equipment...oh well, pass me the remote. What's on Lifetime?"

It's easy to rationalize your way out of exercise with that excuse. Nice try, but....

As long as you have the necessary parts, and they function properly, you'll be able to do these 3 basic exercises, and still have a very effective workout. Will it be as much fun as working out with me...h*lllll nnnnoooo - but, it will be effective none the less. :)

The BIG three at-home workout:

Push Ups, Crunches, Squats. What about cardio, you ask? Fear not - I have a plan for that as well.

Push ups and squats are compound exercises, meaning more than one joint is moving. Compound exercises are most effective because they stimulate more than one muscle group at a time. The more muscles you can involve the better.

Before I get into it, I'd like to explain what I mean by having properly functioning parts. (It's not dirty, I swear) If you have any issues with your knees you would replace squats with wall slides. Wall slides are the exercise where you would lean back against the wall with your legs not quite parallel with the floor. Hold the position for 10 seconds, and then lower, hold for another 10 seconds, repeat until your legs are slightly over parallel.

Warm up. You have a few options. chair sits, simulated jump rope, march in place, step touches. Do this for 3 minutes.


Start on the floor with push ups. You can either start on your knees, or on your toes. Do as many as you can. Remember this number, because you're going to try and top it for the next circuit. If push ups on the floor are too difficult , do them on the wall, or on the end of a countertop.

Move right into crunches. Start with regular crunches. Same as above. Do as many as you can.

Stand up and do either squats or wall slides. If you are doing squats, do as many as you can. If you are doing wall slides do 4 slides total.

To incorporate cardio, if you have stairs in your home, use them. Run up and down the stairs for 3 minutes. If you don't, try jumping jacks or marching in place, for 2 minutes.

Rest for 90 seconds. Then start again with the push ups. Try and beat the numbers from the previous circuit.

On to crunches - beat your previous number.

Squats or wall slides. Stay with 4 wall slides. For the squats, beat the previous number. Also, if you have chosen to do the squats you can change to sumo or plie'. (your legs are farther apart and toes are pointing outward)

Repeat all (excluding warm up)

Complete 4 circuits.

It doesn't get any simpler than this, so you have no excuses. Step away from the remote and just DO IT!!!!