By – Hitesh Chhabria – Assistant Technical Training Head, Gold’s Gym India
These days it’s like a season of home workouts and if you failed to stock the home gym equipment’s, don’t worry – there are plenty of items in your home that can double as equipment’s.
Lots of household items can be used as exercise equipment, as long as you use your imagination.
- Water Bottles: A one liter water bottle weighs approximately 2.2 pounds, so you can use one in each hand for some lighter weight arm workouts.
Workouts Names:
Bicep curls
Bicep hammer curls
Side lateral raises
Shoulder front raises
Shoulder overhead presses
Bent over rows
Triceps kickbacks
- Backpack: To add some extra poundage to the body weight moves, a backpack can be used and filled with cans and bottles or anything heavy and make workouts more challenging for yourself.
Workout names:
Squats
Step ups
Lunges
Pushups
Deadlifts
Bent over rows
Plank
- Water gallon: The big 5-gallon water bottles for water coolers works the best. Many of these have handles too. They weigh in at 40 lbs when full, so, definitely a substantial amount of weight. The size of them makes them ideal for a lot of exercises of heavy lifting.
Workout names:
Deadlifts
Both arm bent over rows
Sumo squats
Stiff legged deadlifts
Shoulder overhead presses
- Bucket: Bigger the bucket, the heavier it can be made. You can use a pole for a handle and secure the bucket to each end. Or you can lift the buckets by the handle for independent movement on each side.
Workout names:
Squats
Bicep curls
Reverse Bicep curls
Hammer curls
Shoulder front raises
Deadlifts
Shrugs
Triceps overhead extensions
- Suitcase: Suitcases are great because they have handles! They are also designed to carry quite a bit of weight. Fill with books, clothes, water bottles, cans, etc.
Workout names:
Deadlifts
Squats
Overhead squats
Split lunges
Bent over rows
Incline/Decline pushups
Hip thrusts
