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Try the plank & squat challenges?
Think they were floating about on FB in the New Year....probably some vids on Youtube too. Start of with 20 squats for example on Day 1 and work up to 100. With the plank, start off holding for 30 secs and work up to 5 mins or longer. Loads of variations on it  |
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"Hi im not a gym bunny but i now own a skipping rope and started 3 days ago i can now do 70 straight off ,..any other things i can do at home to get fitter ideas would help ..."
Plenty of HIIT videos on YouTube. It's a great option for cardio as you get a lot of bang for your buck. |
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"Hi im not a gym bunny but i now own a skipping rope and started 3 days ago i can now do 70 straight off ,..any other things i can do at home to get fitter ideas would help ..."
A skipping rope is a great idea - though I’m not sure my knees would take it. May try it though as I need to improve my aerobic fitness. At the moment it’s dreadful.  |
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Ok - any suggestions for people who have arthritis in their knees, hips and lower back who can’t do high impact stuff?
I’m currently taking long walks with the pup - but that isn’t helping me lose as much weight as I’d hoped - and nor does it seem to be improving my aerobic fitness! |
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I found Joe Wicks and Body Fit by Amy on you tube so helpful when starting to lose weight. They both have beginner videos and very easy to follow. And they do everything from HIIT to using equipment  |
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"Ok - any suggestions for people who have arthritis in their knees, hips and lower back who can’t do high impact stuff?
I’m currently taking long walks with the pup - but that isn’t helping me lose as much weight as I’d hoped - and nor does it seem to be improving my aerobic fitness! "
Have you thought about yoga and pilates? |
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Have a look on YouTube, heaps and heaps out there. From walking aerobics to really intense things.
I used Lesley Sansone videos when recovering from abdominal surgery several years ago. It's dated, it's in no way cool, but it works, it's a thing to do. |
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"Hi im not a gym bunny but i now own a skipping rope and started 3 days ago i can now do 70 straight off ,..any other things i can do at home to get fitter ideas would help ..."
If you have a smart phone loads of apps you can download for workout ideas |
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"Hi im not a gym bunny but i now own a skipping rope and started 3 days ago i can now do 70 straight off ,..any other things i can do at home to get fitter ideas would help ..."
Fitness imo is a multi faceted concept
Your op mentions cardio and vascular
For each fitness goal there are a number of approaches some cross over and some not so much so
Potential fitness goals :
Heart health
Strength
Agility
Posture and muscular balance
Aesthetics
Weight loss
Fat loss
Muscle hypertrophy
Hormonal balance
To name a few
So assuming you want heart fitness two basic parts exist
Improving and maintaining
If we are only focusing mainly on the heart and not muscle balance then any activity that you enjoy that you can select the intensity(heart tate) and duration will be perfect
The exercises are actually not so significant what is significant is a structured approach of progressive overload
Thus skipping
It will be beneficial to train both endurance and heart strength
For endurance pick any activity you could maintain for a sustained period
Start with a short time period and increase (mileage time reps skips) slowly over time
For heart strength a similar approach
However it's the intensity and not the time we aim to increase over time
So if it were skipping
Endurance would be
At a a steady heart rate week one 10 skips by week 30 300
For heart strength
Pick a time maybe a minute
Start with 30 skips
Week 30 aim for 100
Eveyone is individual the above is only an illusion not a recommendation as I know nothing about the original start point
The principles for fitness however would be
Start easy / short
Progressively and incrementally intensify / extend over time
The above principle improves fitness
Once a base fitness is achieved regularly training even without the progressions will maintain
I always recommend a choice of poisons ( heart raising cardio exercises) to involve as many muscles in the body over a month as practicable
Again its ALWAYS just the doing of something you can or enjoy progressvly that works best not specifically what the poison is x  |
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