How to Convert 10 Household Items into Exercise Equipment

It is extremely challenging for most to deal with competing New Year’s resolutions. The first one being to save more money and the second one-to lose weight-requiring you to pay for an expensive gym membership. While we don’t want to underestimate the value of quality exercise equipment, we would like you to open your eyes to the great fitness resources you have laying around your home.  To learn how to convert 10 household items into exercise equipment, read on.

Use 10 Household Items for Exercise Equipment

The kitchen houses several useful household items that can easily be converted into exercise equipment.

1. Put an empty gallon of milk to good use by filling it with water until it reaches your desired weight. You can also fill two half gallons to create a couple of free weights with ready-made handles.

2. A 3-5 pound bag of beans or rice are the perfect size for any type of biceps or triceps curls. You can place them on your ankles while seated and do some leg raises.

3. Water bottles are also a perfect size for bicep curls. Another excellent advantage of using water bottles is that you can rehydrate yourself after a great workout.

4. When careful, soup cans are another good source for basic strength training. Increase your repetitions if the weight of the cans are too light and be very careful not to drop these on your feet.

5. Take a chair and use it to balance when doing some complicated yoga moves. You can also use for step-up exercises for an added challenge and a chair is always the type of useful exercise equipment that can help you get a good stretch.

Take a stroll around your home and you will find some other household items that can serve you well in the home fitness department.

6. A pair of hole-less socks can be filled with beans, sewn closed and then used as ankle weights. It’s a great way to use socks that have lost their match.

7. Stack up some books on the floor and do a variation of the traditional push-up. Heavier books can also serve as weights.

8. If you have access to stairs you have a huge at-home gym advantage. They can be used for cardio as you run up and down them. You can also use them for squats and lunges.  You can also do incline or decline pushups.  Stairs are a household item that give the feel of all-in-one exercise equipment .

9. Back yourself into a wall and sit parallel with your tush off of the floor for a very difficult squat variation. You will definitely feel the burn the longer you hold the pose.

10. Your kids can be a great source of calorie-burn. You can place your smaller kids on your stomach while you do crunches.  Playing tag in the yard with your children is also a fun way to get your exercise in with the added bonus of spending quality time with your family.