Home Workout Routines To Build MuscleWith home workout routines you can build muscle mass and strength, increase muscular endurance, promote fat loss, improve your health, and even make yourself more desirable - all in the comfort of your home and all without weights. To take into account the fact that you can't control the amount of resistance you use, exercises focusing on a range of muscle groups and levels have been selected. Home workout routines allow for a valuable workout technique called circuit training. In circuits, you do one set of each exercise in the routine before doing a second set of any exercise. Start with five to 10 minutes of continuous large muscle group activity like jumping jacks, running up stairs or skipping. Then do each exercise on your circuit-list in succession, pausing only long enough to get ready for the next one. Start with 12 repetitions of each exercise, eventually working your way up to 20. When you've completed the circuit - cool down for a few minutes either by resting or doing some light cardio - then do the entire home workout routine circuit again. Crunch 1. Lie with your knees bent and your feet flat on the floor. Fold your arms 
across your chest or hold your hands behind your ears. (Don't interlock
your fingers behind your head.)2. Use your abs to lift your head and upper torso while keeping your lower back pressed firmly against the floor. Pause with your shoulder blades at least five centimetres off the floor, then slowly return to the starting position using a controlled movement. Push Up  1. Support
your body with the balls of your feet and with your hands, positioning
your hands slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.Straighten your arms without locking your elbows. 2. Lower your torso until your chest is just off the floor. Push yourself back to the starting position. Chin Up  1. Assisted chin-up: if you find it hard to do even one chin-up from the hanging position (which is usual among beginner and even intermediate exercisers), stand on a chair and push off slightly with your legs. Note - Chin ups are essential for home workout routines so if you don't have one, you can make a pull-up bar by hanging a piece of piping from the crossbeams of your garage. Or, if your kids have a sturdy climbing frame, you already have one in your garden. Chair Dip  1. Hold on to the seat of a sturdy chair behind you, with vour knees bent and your feet flat on the floor - as if you were seated on another, invisible chair. 2. Keep your back arched close to the chair as you slowly lower your body until your upper arms are parallel to the floor. Your torso should remain straight. Pause, and then press back up to the starting position. This is a great exercise for any home workout routine to really tax your triceps. Lateral Raise  1. Grab a pair of water bottles filled with sand (or two full paint cans) and stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, your knees slightly bent and your arms at your sides. 2. Maintaining a slight bend in your elbows, lift your arms up and out to the sides until they're parallel to the floor. Pause, then slowly return to the starting position. Split Squat 1. Stand with one leg 90 to 120 centimetres in front of the other, with  your toes pointed
forwards. Your front foot should be flat on the floor, but only the
ball of your back foot should be planted.To help yourself balance, line up each foot with its corresponding buttock, not with the other foot. Keep your torso erect. Rest your hands behind your head. 2. Bend both knees to lower your body straight down until your back knee is five to eight centimetres off the floor and your front leg is bent at a 90-degree angle -with the thigh parallel to the floor and the lower leg perpendicular to the floor. Your torso and rear thigh should form a straight line. Return to the starting position. Finish the set, then switch your front and back legs and repeat. After several home workout routines, it might be time to invest in some cost-effective dumbbells and try out some of our other weight workouts or dumbbell workouts. Return from Home Workout Routines to Free Workout Routines
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