During the last few weeks an increasing amount of my clients and friends over the world have gotten into a quarantine because of the coronavirus.
The question then is: How should you continue to train during the corona virus?
The simple answer is: Home training.
That’s what I personally do. I have a pull up bar and dip station in my garden together with a kettlebell and 10 LBS dumbbell.
This is all the equipment I train with around half of the year and maintain pretty much all my mass (and even build some if I want to).
The truth however is that you can train to gain mass even without any equipment.
Here are the exercises you can do without any equipment:
- Push ups.
- Diamond push ups.
- Dive bomber push ups.
- Handstands.
- Handstand push ups.
- Burpees.
- Vertical jumps.
- Squats.
- Lunges.
- Leg raises.
- Sit ups.
- Supermans for lower back.
- Pull ups.
- Chin ups.
- Muscle ups.
- Front levers.
- Back levers.
- Straight bar dips.
- Parallel bar dips.
- Shoulder presses
- Push presses.
- Clean and jerk.
- Front raises.
- Lateral raises.
- Rear raises.
- Biceps curls.
- Reverse grip biceps curls.
- French presses.
- Triceps kickbacks.
- Rows.
- Chest flyes.
- Floor presses.
- Deadlifts.
- Squats.
- Lunges.
As you can see, regardless of the level of fitness and equipment you have, you can train hard at home.
This is pretty much how I train most of the year and as long as you structure your training the right way, you’ll make progress without any gym.
Be proud but stay hungry!
Oskar Faarkrog, ISSA Certified Personal Trainer