Strength Training, cardio, pilates, and yoga: Which form of home workout is the best?

 Strength Training, cardio, pilates, and yoga: Which form of home workout is the best?

Lockdowns during the pandemic, lazy mornings, and a complete of track lifestyle often play with your mind and advocate you to not workout and spend the rest of the day on your couch. BUT, One fine morning, you get up and motivate yourself to be an active person and begin with your workouts at home. The confusion is what exactly is the perfect workout to sweat and get that fat out of your body!. Here are the benefits of different forms of workouts and which works best for weight loss. Let's begin with strength training,

What is strength training and how our body will benefit from this form of workout?

If you ever want to lower your risk of getting injured, improve your performance, and make your bones stronger with growing age then strength training is exactly the form of workout needed for you. The exercises are designed to improve your endurance which helps you to lift heavy objects in your routine life and also maintain balance while working workout. WOMEN out there should always indulge in resistance training as it will give your body a feminine shape. Do not worry, you will not bulk up, those female bodybuilders inject testosterone( a male hormone)  to look a certain way when they participate in bodybuilding competitions. WOMEN WILL BULK UP WITH WEIGHT WORKOUTS is a myth.

Best at-home strength training workouts:

Beginners can simply use 2 kg to 4kg of dumbells, to begin with, their workouts. 

Some of the basic workouts are :

Weighted Squats

Weighted lunges 

Curtsy lunges

Deadlifts

Bicep Curls

What is Cardio and how our body will benefit from this form of workout?

The exercises which increase your heart rate to a certain target zone are also known as aerobic workouts. These workouts keep your heart healthy and reduce stress.  It can be in any form such as Zumba, skipping, running, brisk walking, cycling and even jumping jacks done for 20 to 30 minutes taking a 30-sec gap in between each set. The best basic workout to begin with at home are:

Jumping jacks

High knees

Lateral shuffles

Squats( Normal, sumo)

What are the trendy pilates and how our body will benefit from this form of workout?

Pilates is an overhyped form of workout which is nothing but bodyweight strength training like yoga which aims to improve flexibility and body posture. People looking for low-impact workouts and who do not like to lift weights can practice pilates to target your core, back, and all the different parts of the body. Basic pilates workouts to begin with at home are

Single leg stretch

Planks

NOW, The question is which is the best??? 

The answer to this is ALL of them! always combine all the forms of exercises while working out to improve your bone strength, flexibility, and overall heart health, changing your workout types so that your body doesn't adjust to one form and doesn't yield the noticeable results you wish for.

Happy exercising