7 reasons to switch to home workouts and forget the gym

In recent years, home workouts have been gaining popularity due to various restrictions on going to the gym. Now that gyms are closed again, this topic is becoming relevant again. Let’s try to understand the benefits of working out at home and see if it’s possible to completely switch to this type of exercise.

supervisor and master trainer of World class gym, master of sports in jiu-jitsu in Russia.

Regularity is important in training, so it is better not to stop training altogether, but to adapt it to the current conditions.

Can home training replace going to the gym?

Doubts about the effectiveness of home training arise in many people. Lack of motivation, lack of desire, lack of training equipment, lack of household chores are the main reasons. But the trainer believes that training at home is a good alternative to the gym.

Elena: Training at home can replace going to the gym, if your training goals are realizable without equipment from the gym. Also, if you have the opportunity to work out regularly at home and have the necessary equipment. Now we can say that it is not so much the exercises that are important, but physical activity in general, so home workouts are in any case better than nothing.

Pros and cons of switching to home workouts

There are many advantages to working out at home. But it all depends on your exercise experience and discipline.

Pros of home workouts

• Continuity of the workout process.
• You can work out as a family.
• Saving time and money.
• No need to leave the house.
• Ability to plan your own training schedule.
• You can try different online workouts and familiarize yourself with something new.

Elena: In home training, due to limited space and equipment, you can pay attention to what you rarely do in the gym – breathing and pelvic floor muscles, posture and feet, stretching.

Minuses of home training

• It’s harder to get yourself to exercise at home.
• Not all exercises can be done at home due to limited space and lack of equipment.
• When practicing without an instructor increases the possibility of injury.

Elena: If you have enough experience of training in the gym, then at home, the technique of doing exercises is almost unaffected. After all, the main task of the coach, which we solve at the beginning of the training process – the development of motor skills (that is, increasing the pool of exercises for correct execution) and mastering the technique. It is important to understand: a coach is needed not only to control the technique, but also to help complicate and diversify the training process, to create new bunches and variations of exercises. This may be lacking in home training.

How to choose exercises?

The difficulty of exercising at home also lies in the choice of exercises. There are so many video workouts that you can get confused about what will be most effective and suitable for the characteristics of a particular person.

Elena: Exercises should be chosen depending on your experience, fitness and objectives. The effectiveness of an exercise will be determined for each person individually. Often what suits one person may not suit another. The universal option for everyone is to use exercise primarily to increase activity.