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How to Get an Awesome Workout at Home or the Office

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By gorilla21
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This article tells you how to get a simple workout using the weight of your own body.

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  1. Step 1

    Don't have the money to pay for a gym membership? Then that is absolutely no problem here. You don't necessarily need weights to get in shape. In fact, you don't need any equipment what-so-ever. All you need is the determination to succeed, and a capable body of doing the necessary exercises.

  2. Step 2

    Here are various exercises you can do at home:

    Push-Ups: Push-ups are one of the best exercises in improving upper body strength and endurance. They hit the triceps, biceps, shoulders, chest, deltoids, abdominal muscles and as well as your overall core. And not only do they improve your strength and endurance, but they can also help tone muscle as well.

  3. Step 3

    Pull-Ups: Ok, so maybe this is one exercise in which that it requires a stable bar to be able to do this exercise. If you don't have a pull-up bar of any kind or don't feel like spending the extra cash, you could always find a low enough tree branch or even go to your local playground and do pull-ups on the monkey bars. Hey you might look a little too big to be doing pull-ups on the monkey bars while the kids are at play, but at least you are getting in shape!

  4. Step 4

    Sit-ups: Nothing better than the old fashioned way of building muscle within the abdominal region, sit-ups! And not to mention, sit-ups also can help boost your endurance and build core strength. As for how many sit-ups you should be doing per workout, think not quantity but QUALITY! If you are the untrained trainee, you can start off with 2-3 sets with 20 repetitions each.

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