Why Training at Home Will Make You
Feel More Efficient with Your Exercise
Time and Workouts 

Training at home could be the right answer for those who are interested. With some thoughtful attention to design factors, the effectiveness of this type of training could rival that to working out in the gym. 

The first and maybe the essential item to consider is owning the right equipment. Whether or not you have a training partner to train with can also make home exercising as powerful as working out at the gym. Of course, we are talking now about the ideal situation of affording a gym in your own house.

Even with having these basics covered, some practitioners, especially the more extrovert ones, might miss the stimulating environment, shared experience, and communication that they can find in a gym setting. 

Most people training at home end up setting aside a room or just a corner of a room for fitness. And, most of the time, they train alone. Since these are the most common situations, we'll deal with them now. Anyway, the main goal of your design is disruption-free training at home. One big benefit of exercising at home versus the gym is avoiding interruptions because the gym is too busy, too far, too expensive, etc.

As for equipment, training at home requires as little as just your body to an adjustable bench, two dumbbells, a barbell, free weights, and a fixed bar for pull-ups. With that kind of assortment, you can do all of the basic exercises like squats, bench presses, pull-ups, and sit-ups. It also gives you the ability to do plenty of diverse activities to avoid the boredom of doing the same old routines all the time.

Pluses and minuses of training at home

The main plus to training at home is the freedom to choose when you train without any restraint. Moreover, by setting up your at-home gym correctly, you can mix more supersets or circuits to make your exercise time even more efficient. You'll also save time, since you won't be distracted by casual conversation, waiting for machines to free up, or having to adjust the weights of the person before you for every exercise.

If you train at home without a partner, a drawback will be the amount of weight you use in some exercises and the risk of injury from using a maximum load. Many exercises can be loaded to the max without any risk, even if there is no partner to assist you like pull-ups, dips, shoulder presses, barbell curls, dumbbell curls, etc. 

Not everyone can afford or has the room at home to make way for their own gym. Don't let that be an excuse for not training at home. Household items like a mattress, chairs, and a towel can substitute for equipment and your body weight for resistance. There are many bodyweight exercise plans on the market to help you build strength, lose weight, or improve your endurance.  Exercises like push-ups, squats, sit-ups, and lunges mobilize and strengthen your stabilizing muscles to develop coordination and balance. They can also be very demanding when done in supersets. They work well and are popular among trainers. Special forces use them for training and testing troops, as they require a lot of power and discipline to execute. 

If you'd like to learn more about training at home, check out Stew Smith's collection of 90-day mobile-exercise programs at TriadXP.com. They're great for building tactical fitness and overall fitness. His training collection has something for everyone from the beginner to the elite athlete. And, because these are TriadXP workouts, you know the training cues you get from your mobile device will save you time and make your workouts so much more efficient.