How to turn household items into a home gym in the midst of coronavirus and office closures
- A bit of imagination and you can vary your workouts by using items like chairs and water bottles while all the gyms are shut
It can be hard to motivate yourself now that gyms are shut and their reopening seems like a distant dream. But there are a few ways you can use your furniture and household items to keep pushing yourself.
So cast your eyes around you flat and get working out.
Chairs
You can use chairs for a number of exercises. Firstly, Bulgarian split squats. Stand with your back to the chair about a metre away, lift up your back leg and place it on the seat. You will find yourself in a lunge position, with your back leg raised.
Slowly bend your front, weight-baring leg, until the back knee almost touches the ground and then straighten the front leg. Bulgarian split squats are a great way to even out dispensaries between your legs, which can lead to injury. They help balance and improve strength in your glutes far more than a normal lunge or squat.
Secondly, you can vary your press-ups by using a chair. If you put both your feet on a chair while in the press-up position, so that your body is raised, it will work your core more than a normal press-up. The strain moves up your pecs and into your shoulders. So, this is a great exercise to improve your upper body strength.