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The Home Workout:

Pros:

1) Purely bodyweight with only home props like chairs and walls as extras.

2) Enough Variety to keep your body shocked and your mind excited

3) FREE!!!!

4) At your own leisure and time

5) You can choose your own background music

6) Guaranteed fat burning.

7) Gives incredible gains in terms of functional strength and flexibility

Cons:

1) The mood isn’t so firm as it is in a gym

2) There is a limit to which bodyweight exercises can show gains and that limit is usually assessed within 8-9 months

3) Not exactly for professional bodybuilders

4) The gains are comparatively slower in terms of muscle mass. I mean comeon, pushups are good but they don’t show results as fast as bench presses.

5) Motivation decreases

My two cents: Go for it for six months before joining a gym. Why? Simply because the gains in strength and flexibility you get in six months can be used to avoid ‘learning time’ in the gym and directly jumps you to a level where you can start on an extremely tough goal.

A) Home Bodyweight stretches/lifts

B) Home Cardio

Diet: Browse in Nutrition category for: Home Diet (Vegetarian option available)

Exercises:

Note: If you are uncomfortable doing the pushups, do them modified for a month. A modified pushup is where your knees are on the ground. Make sure you use high speeds in modified pushups.

Pushup Challenge: Keep your legs on a chair, balanced on a wall or on a resistance ball.

Which workout is correct for you?

If your primarily goal is to lose weight, look out for negative calories and do the workouts here at a very high pace with say 12 reps and more than 2 sets. *take no more than 40 seconds break between sets*

If your primarily goal is to bulk up a bit, look for bulking diets and do the workouts very slowly, stressing yourself to your max, not going for more than 8 reps and 3 sets, take 1 minute rests between sets, include good fats in the diet.