I am coming up to the 18 month anniversary since I started taking my health and fitness seriously. That’s right, far from being a bloater throughout my twenties, I did, however, manage to totally not eat right. And barely exercise.
Fruit strudel with ice cream… for breakfast; I’d arrive at my 9am lecture clutching a bucket of coke; chips, beans and cheese for lunch; culminating in a fatty burgery mess from the student bar for dinner.
OK, so that was my student diet. It improved in my late twenties. Slightly.
Miraculously, I managed to remain thin-looking throughout this ordeal, although I have since confessed that I was carrying it in a place where nobody could see it: My waist. Yes, due to many genetic factors, my body chooses to store its fat in one place and one place only – my gut.
If I’d carried on like that, I’d have had one heck of a bowling ball down my t-shirt top come my late thirties. I’d probably be heading for all sorts of nasties such as diabetes as well. I needed to improve my diet and I needed an exercise and workout plan.
I stumbled across Scooby’s Home Bodybuilding Workouts and seriously have never looked back.
Packed into Scooby’s site are loads and loads of workout plans, from beginner to expert, complete with demonstration videos of each suggested exercise. What’s more, and the clue is in the title here, the exercise and workout plans are designed for you to do at home, using minimal and cost-effective equipment. It’s like a double-win and really is a resource to behold!
The site is nicely laid out, with heaps of content – from exercise tips to low-fat recipes on the cheap. Sure, he makes affiliate commissions on some click-through sales, but he’s pretty honest about that at every step of the way, which counts as a plus I feel.
My exercise and workout plan, devised from the site, currently consists of:
- 20 minutes of cardio per day. In winter either bike to work or run the beach after work. In summer and parts of spring and autumn, swimming in the sea joins the options. Beach running is my favourite type of running – I go barefoot at every opportunity. More on that at a later date, though!
- Three sessions of resistance training per week. Up until recently, I had been focusing on different muscle sets per session, but now I am moving on to three full body workouts a week. Essentially the Intermediate plan from Scooby’s website, but with a couple of minor changes. For instance, I prefer the best scientifically proven abs exercise from Greg Brookes over crunches.
If you’re looking for some decent exercise and workout advice for free, then you have found it. This is truly the place to go.
