Weight loss workouts don’t have to be intimidating and you definitely don’t need a gym membership to do them. All you need, is basic equipment such as stability ball, a set of dumbbells, a gym bench, a pull-up bar if you have a place for it. But you can definitely get started with just your own body weight to perform weight loss workouts at home.

If you have enough room in your living room or your basement where you can perform squats, lunges, push-ups, planks, side planks, if you are strong enough, pull-ups or body weight rows, then you are definitely in pretty good shape to create a few weight loss workouts without the need to step outside your house.

The most important aspect of weight loss besides having a sound nutrition, is to perform physical activity that targets open major muscle groups and joints in the body. This means a movement like a squat in which several of the larger muscle groups and joints have to move to perform this exercise. Compare that with a set of barbell curls in which only a small group of muscles have to perform.

There is a place and a time for curls, but not in weight loss workouts. For weight loss our main interest is to trigger all the muscles in the body this will burn more calories and elevate your metabolism which in turn will translate into our higher amount of weight loss and for longer period of time.

There are a lot of different body weight training systems that you can perform at home; yoga, tae bo, but the most effective one that we have seen in a long time is Craig Ballantyne’s turbulence training for fat loss. This program is so effective, that even Jillian Michaels from the biggest loser TV show has recommended at. You can find more about turbulence training online.