How to stay fit on a budget during the lockdown

Lockdown measures across the UK mean Brits can only leave their homes for a few specific reasons each day. And while one outing for daily exercise is permitted, people are sensibly looking for ways to keep fit while staying at home.

Over the last month, we’ve seen a noticeable increase in Brits purchasing home exercise equipment. Treadmills alone soared in popularity by 2,700% in the UK and 151% globally.

If you don’t want to spend money on new equipment and you don’t have exercise equipment at your disposal, worry not! We’ve come up with the following tips to help you keep healthy at home on a budget during the lockdown.

Take the stairs

One of the simplest steps to stay fit at home is to run or walk up and down the stairs a few times. This is a really simple way to keep active and get your steps in, and crucially it doesn’t cost a penny. Whether you chose, to run or walk up your stairs, it’s a simple and excellent way to get the heart and lungs pumping.

Working the stairs in your home is quick and effective way to burn the calories. Not only that, working out on the stairs will also help your anaerobic health. According to Run Society, stair exercises will help you by building and toning lower body muscles, building stamina and lowering cholesterol. What more could we want!

Make weights

Weights are crucial to many exercises and can greatly improve your health and fitness. In addition to helping you build muscles mass, lifting weights also helps to improve your overall health by burning fat and strengthening joints and bones, for some people lifting weights can even lead to better sleep.

Most people don’t keep a set of weights at home, preferring the gym for these exercises. However, many household items can be improvised as weights. A tin of beans, bags of sugar, and filled bottles of water can all be effectively used as substitutes to dumbbells and can be used to carry out a lot of popular exercises.

These small, improvised weights may not reflect what you’re typically lifting at your gym, however exercising with smaller weights can make your work out just as effective. Small weight exercises reduce the risk of injury but still provide resistance and help muscle and stamina.

Use online resources and apps

For several exercises at home, all you need is some floor space to give you enough room to do your workout. If you’re struggling to figure out what exercises you need to do, help is at hand.

You can access several free online resources to help you with your workout. There are several apps you can download too such as Aaptiv or Fit Bit Coach.

You can find the right workout for you and perform it from the comfort of your home at a time best suited to you. Not only this, you can also get family or friends to join to, so that you have a workout buddy, albeit likely a virtual one.

There are several ways you can pass the time during the lockdown by keeping fit and healthy in your home, without breaking the bank. During this lockdown period it’s important to remain active and healthy.

If you are considering spending the pennies and purchasing home fitness or gym equipment, it’s important that you make sure you research the products and make sure you compare prices to ensure you get the best deals available.