How to Workout and Lose Weight (For Free!) in 2016

[Anonymous]

So you have made your New Year's Resolution to lose weight and now the new year has begun and you're sort of scratching your head and wondering how the heck you're actually going to do it. Well, I hate to break it to you, but it's not going to be easy. Yes tv commericials, and every other internet website has convinced you there is some magical way to drop weight, but if you want to lose weight and keep it off, you have to take the hard road and put in, GASP!, actual work to achieve a healthy weight which you can sustain for the rest of your life. Let's get over the first hurdle which has you thinking that the only way it can be done is if you have a gym membership or pay a trainer. Not so. You can lose weight for absolutely no money at all and no gym memberships.

Here are several ways in which a free workout can be achieved

• Free workout apps for iPhone/Android: This site breaks down some of the best apps of 2015 from diet help, to exercise apps, to tracking exerise/weight apps, etc. https://www.healthline.com/health/diet-and-weight-loss/top-iphone-android-apps#2


• Library: At most of your local libraries, they carry exercise Dvd's which you can of course check out for free with your library card. If you can't find them in your local library, ask a librarian to help put them on hold for you so that the dvd can come to you via your local library.

• Youtube: I cannot express how many 100% FREE workouts there are online. Go to youtube and simply type in a search for "free full workouts." You can find your more well knowns, like Beach Body, Jillian Michaels, Shaun T, to various trainers from gyms across the country who put together their own workouts. Look for workouts you already like to do like hip hop dancing, yoga, or weight workouts if you already own a set or two of dumbells or bars, but don't be afraid to try something new that you haven't done before like Bollywood dancing, agility drill workouts, or ballet barre. It's free so even if you end up hating it, you don't have to feel like you wasted money on it. Youtube workouts are chalk full of variety, so look and you'll find it.


• Best Website: One of my absolute hands down favorite websites was created by a couple who wanted fitness to be accessible to everyone for free. There are hundreds of full workout videos. You can pick your desired difficulty level, which muscles you want to work, what type of training you want to do, the equiptment you want to use, etc. The workouts are music free so you can listen to your iPod or the radio while you workout. Check them out at, https://www.fitnessblender.com/

  

  
  
  
  


• Go to the Playground!: Most people have a neighborhood park close to them. Turn that into your gym. Seriously! Check out this page for some workout tips: https://greatist.com/fitness/bodyweight-playground-workout or this video:

• Just About Anything can become a workout: People often think that you must dedicate 1 solid hour at just one time a day to working out or you aren't doing anything, but the little things add up. If you only have 15 minutes to walk around during your lunch break, take it. Park your car further away from the building, bike or walk to work, actively play with your kids or your pets, do some squats and crunches while you're binge watching tv. EVERY LITTLE BIT COUNTS!

If you are serious in 2016 about getting your health on track, you don't need a gym to make that happen. People have been working out and finding ways to be healthy long before there was a 24 hour fitness on the corner! Stay positive, eat as healthy as you can, and workout for free and hopefully by the end of this year, you won't have to make getting healthy your new resolution for the next year.

[AleDeEurope]

Nice take. Lets see if this year I'm not too lazy and start working out more often. I wanna be regular, not work out for a week then stop and 2 months later start again xD

[myTake Owner]

Good luck to you!

[Anonymous]

Excellent take. Thank you for this!

[myTake Owner]

you're welcome

[ichot]

If it's a goal oriented workout (ahem.. almost all are), you'll need more than youtube/dvd/blog videos. There's a reason why personal trainers aren't extinct even with an over abundance of exercises to do. Because people can't give two crap about theory and application. That information is out there but it certainly is boring and dull.

I have always exercised out doors and there are literally no people out here. Sure I've witnessed a couple curious folks, but they all vanish after a week. I doubt most beginning folks will have the motivation and drive to in a sense.. publicity humiliate themselves. And honestly, I prefer it this way. Don't need a line for the ONLY ONE ACTUAL pull up bar and parallel bar in a 10 mile radius. Some cities are installing public outdoor facilities in an attempt to get their fat citizens to have access to exercise equipment. Honestly, no one uses it. Just becomes another children's playground.

/rant

[ichot]

by the way, the "best website" goes to this.

https://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html

[myTake Owner]

This take isn't for those who don't care. I could have written an entire take about the best gyms in the country and as you intuit, some 2-3 people would have taken it to heart, joined up, and stayed with said gym long term and most would disappear. I know from personal experience having done the gym thing for 5 years and having been without a gym for just as long, that it doesn't matter what remedy, youtube video, diet plan you hand someone, they have to be motivated and willing to do it. You mention that people won't don't care about theory and application, so sure you can show up to a trainer to help you accomplish both, but you still actually have to show up. But just as with the gym, one or two people will decide they want to do this, and do it right (points to self, points to my friend), and they'll be glad they have a park to themselves or can find free available workouts to do at home 24/7 a day if they choose.

[burlen]

Your post is exactly what I was discussing with my brother who is pro-investing in gym membership to getting maximum fitness. I'm of the view that an individual can achieve full fitness through a combination of core exercises, outdoor running and yoga.

[myTake Owner]

For some people, its purely mental. They do strongly believe that for them, the only way they know to get fit is going to a solid brick and mortar gym and working out. It's part of their mental program, where, I go to the gym at this time and do this many reps, but for others who either can't afford it, don't want to go to the gym or know there are alternatives that can be used with or without a gym membership, its much more about getting healthy at any time, any where and not having to rely on a gym to get it done. Ultimately if something works for him or it works for you, weight loss and exercise are only things that can be done by the individual as it pertains to their own health, so do what you have to do!

[Joshua2332]

Good Take. I never understand why people use personal trainers. All of this information is FREE online like you said.

[RedAmulet]

Yeah but if you're wanting to do weights then form is very important and a personal trainer helps with form like a YouTube video never could.

[myTake Owner]

@RedAmulet

[myTake Owner]

@RedAmulet I agree 100% that correct form is important for lifting weights, but I also think anyone with a mirror and the ability to watch a video on form could pick it up. I'm not saying trainers are useless by any means, they are quite helpful to have, but if you see a video on form and follow the advice, you should be fine. Again people have been doing it all long before gyms and trainers.

[ichot]

Because the common person doesn't have a clue how to obtain their goal even with a handful of exercises. No planning, no foresight nor insight. Just a drive that dwindles down when they see no quick result.

If it was so easy to obtain goals, you wouldn't have over 75% of the American population being overweight&obese. .

[myTake Owner]

@ichot A gym is great... if you go, and go regularly. One cannot benefit from either a gym-less program or a gym if they don't utilize them and utilize them properly. As I've said repeatedly, long before there were even gyms to speak of, people were in shape and it had nothing to do with a gym, but we suffer from extremely poor diets AND lack of exercise. A person can do all the gym they want, but don't eat right and how much are you accomplishing towards you health. Quite literally one of the first things I mentioned was that weight loss was hard and there was NO easy way to do it. However, adults know how to walk around a park, they can walk up some stairs, they can play with their kids, a lot can swim or bike. Those require no real form or instructions on how to do it that require a trainer to be present, but they have to do it. Those that are serious will like every person out there who has no gym membership, figure out via books/internet/friends/themselves, how to work on diet.

[Anonymous]

I personally believe to achieve a great body and become fit the best thing to do is just do cardio exercise and lots of it. I do rowing 4 times a week (2 on the water and 2 on the ergos) and its great fun. On the days i dont row i tend to run instead. Its great for general fitness and muscle building. You also get to compete in competitions.

[myTake Owner]

If you're rowing, you aren't 'just' doing cardio, you are doing one of the most strenuous full body workouts that's out there, but if a person is overweight, a lot of cardio will certainly help, but they'll still need to build up their muscles which can happen, as in rowing, because you aren't just sitting there pumping away at the heart, you're incorporating several muscle groups in the process. Either way, it sounds like fun. The last time I was in a boat, was a summer camp canoe yeeeeeaaarrs ago.

[Opinion Owner]

True. Although my point was mainly for things like running which is considered cardio. For me building muscle was and is a bonus. I guess its useful because it helps me row with more power.

[kxera]

I'm digging the dancing! I've been wanting to start a fitness club at my school

[myTake Owner]

there are so many good dance workouts on youtube.

[kxera]

I know. I have an entire playlist of workouts.

[myTake Owner]

if you don't already have a tv or device that can stream youtube on your television, you can buy a cheap HDMI cable (seriously, at the dollar store), and hook up your laptop, if you have one, to your tv, and play your workout playlist on the bigger screen. May be useful if you start that fitness club at school

[kxera]

I already have an internet wireless/wifi television, but the fitness club would just be exercises outside and then projected videos if we do watch them.

[myTake Owner]

cool, good luck with that. I hope you can help inspire more people to get moving!

[kxera]

Thank you!

[PianoheroEmma]

I need this tip for me. Asker, how do I save this article that you wrote about doing fitness for this year in 2016?

[myTake Owner]

I'm pretty sure you can copy and paste it somewhere so you can save it.

[PianoheroEmma]

Thank you! I am sorry to ask you this question.

[PianoheroEmma]

I am thin, but I am afraid to gain weight. Everyone tells me that I very thin, but I feel fat.

[Anonymous]

How to loose weight for free -

Don't eat a metric ton of shit.

Don't sit down 24/7.

Congratulations, you're gonna loose weight.

[kingoficeolation]

Do it for free? I'd expect to be paid!

[orphan]

i workout at my local park =)

[Anonymous]

Nice take 😌