Working out at home was the best decision I have made. There are many advantages I will detail later in this article, but just the environment alone is much greater. For the money you put out on gym memberships, just one year would get you some great equipment for your home gym.
This article is designed to help you decide what to order, where to order, some good informational websites, one of my favorite programs, and similar things like that. The ideal place for a gym is in a room, be it a basement, spare room, etc. But if you don't have something like that, a garage will do just fine. Working at home may be for you, but it may not be. But as I said, it's been the best decision I've ever made. Here's a list of equipment you should consider buying:
-Pull-Up Bars, Dips Handles, and Leg Raise Station
These are nice to have around and are a nice addition to a gym. They run for around 100 bucks and a solid piece of equipment. But if you don't have the money, you can buy pull-up bars that attach in your door frame that run for about 15 bucks, and you can just do seated leg raises. The dips you can add them to your power rack for about 30 bucks. This is a good piece of equipment to have at a home gym.
Training
Specific or task-oriented fitness is a person's ability to perform in a specific activity with a reasonable efficiency: for example, sports or military service. Specific training prepares athletes to perform well in their sports.
Examples are:
- 100 m sprint: in a sprint the athlete must be trained to work anaerobically throughout the race, an example of how to do this would be interval training.
- Marathon: in this case the athlete must be trained to work aerobically and their endurance must be built-up to a maximum.
- Many fire fighters and police officers undergo regular fitness testing to determine if they are capable of the physically demanding tasks required of the job.[8]
- Soldiers of the United States Army must be able to pass the Army Physical Fitness Test (APFT).[9]
- Hill sprints, this training requires a level of fitness to begin with, the exercise is particularly good for the leg muscles. The army often trains doing mountain climbing and races.
Menopause and Physical Fitness
The menopausal period in women is frequently associated with many subjective complaints including vasomotor symptoms, sleep disturbance, alteration in mood, lowered libido, and musculoskeletal pain. All of these symptoms could lead to a lower quality of life. Physical Fitness has the ability to alleviate or even eliminate the effect of most of these. Women experiencing their menopausal period should engage in regular exercise to achieve better physical fitness. [10