Indoor Exercise

One of the easiest ways to give your muscles a gym-quality workout at home is self-resistance. This is a simple matter of working out by exercising against your own strength.

For instance:

• Sit in your chair with hands on either side of your knees. Press your knees together with your hands while giving resistance with your thighs. This works a bit like a fly press.
• Press your palms together, fingers pointing up, thumb at your chest. Press hands together and slowly extend them forward, turning fingers outwards as you go, then back in. This works the same muscle group as a push-up.
• Put your hands on your knees while seated, palms down. Attempt to lift your knees while pressing them back down with your hands. This simulates crunches.

You never know what you're going to get with Texas weather come November, but whether it's too hot out for a run or too cold, there are some simple indoor aerobic exercises you can use to get your heart rate up.

• Stationary sprinting. You already know how to run in place. With stationary sprinting the idea is to lift your knees high and go as fast as you comfortably can.
• Squat thrust. Stand up straight, feet at shoulder width. Squat with your knees, hands on the floor and feet kicked back straight behind you into a push-up position. Then back up and back down for thirty seconds at a time.

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