STEPPING IT UP A NOTCH

Some useful pointers on how to get the most out of your home bodyweight training.

CHROMECAST

The living room is one of the easiest places to set up a temporary workout space, and some apps will let you tap into your TV and home entertainment system to make it easier to follow the workouts you need to do.

EQUIPMENT

While there are a heap of exercises you can do using nothing but your body, adding a set of dumbbells, a yoga ball, medicine ball, resistance band or bench to your workout can dramatically increase the amount of muscle building exercises you can do.

MUSIC

Listening to music during workout is known to help you push yourself further, especially when you are responsible for your own pacing, so tap into a streaming service or one of the training app’s onboard local music feedback app.

SCHEDULES

It’s one thing to have particular routines that you do, but some of the better apps will allow you to create a personalised schedule with differing routines to allow parts of your body to recover while you work on other areas to maximise the amount of training you can do in a week.

COMMUNITY

Join friends or groups that are doing a similar training schedule to add some competition back into your ‘personal’ training sessions.

GOALS

Use complementary applications like My Fitness Pal or the Fitbit app to track your weight and body fat percentage to let you track how your fitness sessions are impacting your body.