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7 Exercise Substitutions for Faster Fat Loss Without Going to Gym

To to start with everyone moving towards better health and Beach Body. And, in this self-care people first choice is joining a gym for exercise. Those highly equipped gyms with fantasy new school machines will easily make your body drooling until you start using them. And yes, they all offering you a good package and transformation dreams.
But, Transformation doesn’t come from machines, packages or from dreams. Transformation comes with a dedication to yourself.

Many people think joining a good gym is the first need to start their journey.  Nevertheless its a good choice for self-care. But what to do when you are not around to your favourite machines.

In fact, I Body weight exercises getting more popular nowadays instead of using exercise machines and one of the big reason is, It’s a functional movement and our daily life depends on our movements and mobility.

Function Movement

Now, the term “Functional movement” gets thrown around a lot in the fitness industry. However, it simply reflects activities and movement patterns in your daily life. Every such movement requires the use of your full body, right? So why eliminate it and train in a fixed range of motion with machines?

You see, the shiny, expensive machines at the gym may seem like the right idea, but it’s not necessary to get a time efficient, fat burning workout.

Want to be able to keep up with your kids for hours? Plus lose a ton of fat, build a better body, and not to mention, feel totally awesome?

Try these 7 simple exercises will help improve your coordination and core strength so you burn more calories and feel a million bucks. Moreover, you could do all of these at home or even when you are travelling around for some days.

1. Hip Machines – Lateral Lunges

Why? The fixed range of motion on the inner/outer thigh (aka adductors/abductors) machine targets one area on your hip. But there’s nothing remotely like these movements in real life! These muscles are designed for stabilizing – so that’s how you should train them.

Try lateral lunges instead. This exercise targets your glutes, inner thigh, hamstrings and quads – plus requires core engagement and integration. You will improve your hip mobility, lower body stability and burn more calories in the process.

Lateral Lunge
Lateral Lunge

2. Chest Press Machines – Push Ups

Why? Go for push-ups. This move is simply a moving plank (one of my favourite core exercises).

If you can’t do a full push up yet, make that your first goal. Start with an incline (raise your hands, rather than drop your knees to the ground). No girly push-ups, ok? Knees to the floor and you lose core involvement, which is a major component of a full push up.

Push Up
Push up

No problem busting out a ton of push-ups? Challenge yourself – try decline push-ups, Spiderman pushups or suspend your feet from a TRX and do Atomic Push Ups. Oohh my abs hurt just thinking about it. 😉

3. Incline Leg Press – Squats

Why? The leg press machine puts a ridiculous amount of force on the discs in your lower back. The expert research on this topic speaks for itself.

Dr. Stuart McGill has dedicated his whole life to researching lower back disorders and is a professor of spinal mechanics at the University of Waterloo. His book “Low Back Disorders” has quality research that suggests the 45-degree leg press machine could seriously damage your lower back.

Trx Squats
Trx Squats

Learn to love squats. Your bodyweight is the perfect resistance to start with. Work to improve your mobility, and core integration before you add weight to mix.

4. Glute machine – Step Ups

Why? Get a sexy butt without spending an hour at Barre class. Switch to step ups – there are plenty of variations to sculpt a lean, defined butt without stepping anywhere near a machine.

As a bonus, you engage your core at the same time and this movement transfers to your daily life. Climbing the stairs? It will be a breeze.

5. Leg Extension Machine – Lunges

Why? Target your quads, hamstrings and glutes all in one move. Isolating and training only your quads on the leg extension machine not only sets you up for muscle imbalances, but it causes excessive strain on your knee.

Once you have the basic lunge down, progress to reverse lunges and the Bulgarian split squat. Oohh good times. Expect burning quads. Sexy burning quads.

Lunges

6. Bicep Curls Machine – Chin-ups

Why? The bicep curl is an isolated exercise, hitting one muscle group. Maximize your time and hit the whole upper body instead – yes, chin-ups are a tough exercise that requires multiple, large muscle group recruitment.

Pull ups
Pull ups

Struggling to pull your bodyweight? You can use a resistance band for assistance or do negative chin-ups. You will get stronger, burn more calories in less time and your biceps will look lean and sexy.

7. Elliptical/Treadmill Intervals – Bodyweight Cardio Intervals

Why? Getting tired of the same old interval workout? Yeah, I know intervals of “30s on, 30s off” gets awfully boring after a while…

Try doing these Bodyweight Cardio Accelerator Intervals instead. Why? Well, it’s WAY more fun. Plus, this style of workout combines big movements that hit multiple muscle groups at the same time so you boost your metabolism and burn a ton of calories.

You will also notice a dramatic difference in your metabolism after just ONE workout, and your body will start changing in days.

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