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So you want to lose weight and get in shape, but you don’t want to leave your house…
As your fitness Yoda, I will teach you a great Beginner Bodyweight Routine you can do anywhere: in your living room, at a park, or in a galaxy far, far away….
Click the sections below to get right into the action:
- Why Bodyweight Circuits Kick Ass.
- Beginner Bodyweight Workout Video.
- An Important Note About Nutrition.
- Download the Beginner Bodyweight Workout Sheet.
These are the types of workouts we build for our busy 1-on-1 Online Coaching Clients! We provide personalized instruction and custom workouts, professional accountability, and expert guidance from us at Team Nerd Fitness!
Why BodyWeight Circuits Kick Ass
What makes bodyweight circuits work so well?
Every bodyweight exercise involved utilizes multiple muscle groups, gets your heart rate pumping, and burns tons of calories.
Essentially, circuit weight training, or circuit bodyweight training, burns more calories than interval training, and that in turn burns WAY more calories than steady cardio. When you strength train, you burn calories.
Then, your body needs to spend hours and hours afterward rebuilding your muscles, which in turns burns even more calories (they call this the ‘afterburn effect).
As we cover in our Coaching Program and the NF Academy, our nutrition will account for 80-90% of our success or failure when it comes to getting in shape, might as well spend our time exercising being efficient and strong, right?
Want to make better food decisions? Read our Beginner’s Guide to Healthy Eating.
If you’re trying to lose weight, spending hours doing cardio on a treadmill is a really crappy, boring, inefficient use of your time.
If you’re a busy person (and I know you are), why spend hours doing something when you can be MORE efficient and build a better physique with less time?
Enter the beginner bodyweight workout.
I’m going to take you through a basic home workout today that can be completed anywhere – in your house, apartment, out at a park, in your basement, on the moon, wherever.
Speaking of which, you can print out this Beginner Bodyweight Workout and follow along at home when you sign up in the box below:
- Complete this workout at home, no equipment required
- Avoid the common mistakes everybody makes when doing bodyweight exercises
- Learn how to finally get your first pull-up
Beginner Body Weight Workout Video & exercises
This is the Beginner Bodyweight Workout (Do 3 Circuits):
- 20 Bodyweight squats
- 10 Push-ups
- 10 Walking lunges (each leg)
- 10 Dumbbell rows (use a milk jug or other weight)
- 15 second Plank
- 30 Jumping jacks
In a circuit routine, you’ll do each exercise in succession without a break in between (if you’re able).
Once you’ve finished all exercises in the circuit, do it again.
If you’re still able after the 2nd run through, go for a third.
Because all of these exercises come one after another, you’re bound to get tired – and that’s okay! We all start somewhere.
And it’s okay if you don’t know how to do a push-up! We cover it extensively in this video:
I also want to make sure you know how to do a proper bodyweight squat!
It’s better to stop and take a break than to do an exercise incorrectly.
If you can’t do all three circuits without stopping, great! That gives you something to work towards.
Before you start, don’t forget to WARM UP – Never ever ever ever forget to warm up. Make sure to get your heart rate pumping and get your muscles warm or you’re just asking for injury.
You can run in place, jump rope, do a few push-ups, pedal on a stationary bike, do some punches and kicks, jog up and down your stairs, and/or twist and swing your arms and legs to get them moving!
After you’ve completed your workout at home, feel free to cool down and stretch after. All of your muscles have been contracted from lifting and need to be stretched back out and rebuilt.
How to do the Beginner Bodyweight Workout Circuit correctly:
Do this routine 2-3 times a week, but never on consecutive days.
You don’t build muscle when you’re exercising, you build muscle when you’re resting, so try not to do a strength training routine (of the same muscle groups) two days in a row.
I like to follow a pattern of strength training on one day, then 20 minutes of interval training on the next, then strength training, then interval training, and so on.
Alternatively, pick one of these fun exercises to do on your off days instead!
For the body weight squats or lunges: if you can’t do them properly yet, it’s okay to put your hand on a support to keep your balance.
How to Squat: think of it like sitting down onto a chair. If you can sit down onto a chair, and then stand immediately right back up without having to lean forward, you are in balance and doing your squats correctly.
How to Lunge: keep your eyes ahead and your upper body completely vertical. I had a slight bend at times in the video due to trying to exercise and explain at the same time.
I used a milk jug for my dumbbell, but you can use whatever is heavy enough for you. Find something that is challenging to lift 10 times in a row.
Note: We have helped hundreds of 1-on-1 Coaching clients get started with strength training and other awesomeness – but EVERYBODY starts with bodyweight training like this article!
An Important Note About Nutrition!
Along with this bodyweight routine, you need to make sure you’re eating properly!
A good workout and crappy diet won’t get you results.
After all, one of the rules of the Nerd Fitness Rebellion is “you can’t outrun your fork” and you can’t out train a bad diet!
This means if you don’t ALSO fix your relationship with food, then all the exercise you do won’t be helping you lose weight and building muscle.
If you are trying to lose weight, then you need to fix your nutrition first and foremost. Eating healthy is key!
We’ve actually developed a 10-level nutrition system and mindset blueprint in the Nerd Fitness Academy, but let me break this down into some basics:
- Eat natural, whole foods whenever possible.
- Leave the soda, candy, and junk food out of your system.
- Sugar is worse than Jar Jar Binks – cut back on sugar and liquid calories wherever you can. The stuff is in everything!
- Swap out the grains on your plate for vegetables when you can.
- Make sure you get enough protein each day (meat, chicken, fish) – this helps with rebuilding muscles and things like that.
The raw honest truth: how you eat will be responsible for at least 80% of your success or failure.
I’m not kidding when I say that. If you don’t develop a healthier relationship with food, no amount of exercise will get you there.
So if you’re doing this workout program because you’re interested in losing weight, know that training is only 10-20% of the puzzle!
The WORST is dutifully doing this workout routine for months or going to the gym for years and not getting results because you didn’t eat the right way!
That was me – I spent 6 years without results because I didn’t know how to eat correctly to go along with my training!
If you don’t have months or years to make mistakes, and just want your own Yoda to tell you what to do, you’re in the right place!
We’ve been helping busy people like you train at home and make better food decisions without hating life! It’s our 1-on-1 Online Coaching Program, and it might be a great fit for you.
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Download the Beginner Bodyweight Workout Sheet!
Strength training is one of the pillars of Nerd Fitness – it makes literally every part of life better.
Strength training will improve your physique, help you lose fat and build strength and muscle, and it can be done quickly, anywhere.
So don’t forget to join the Rebellion…
We need good people like you!
You can sign up in the box below to get the Beginner Bodyweight Workout sheet so you can print out the sheet and train at home!
- Complete this workout at home, no equipment required
- Avoid the common mistakes everybody makes when doing bodyweight exercises
- Learn how to finally get your first pull-up
Do this routine a few times a week and note how much better you get at it.
Now, if you’re ready for another challenge or want more specific instruction, let me tell you quickly about this program we have!
If you want step-by-step guidance on how to lose weight, eat better, and get stronger, check out our killer 1-on-1 coaching program:
One final note: If doing just one circuit of the workout was really challenging, no big deal!
Write down how you did, and try to do just 1 more rep or exercise next time through.
The whole point is “do a bit more than last time.”
You can do this, and we got your back!
-Steve
PS: If this routine is too easy for you, I have an Advanced Body Weight Circuit too. You’ve been warned 🙂
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