Our Get Ready for the Gown section will help you get in shape and healthy for your wedding day and beyond. Our fitness and nutrition experts will provide you with a plan to get you gown ready!
Get Ready for the Gown!
Personal Trainer Chante Pemberton suggests great equipment to use at home for your workout.
Working out doesn't have to cost an arm and a leg.
You are busy, so I have shown you ways to get quick workouts. Now, I want to share how you can make a small investment in equipment and use your home environment to be an inexpensive gym.
Many brides are fortunate to have their family pay for the wedding, but in many cases couples are taking on the expense. If this is you, here are some tips and ideas on creating your own home gym.
If you are really cutting corners, things like milk jugs with sand in them can create great hand weights. Dumbbells can be purchased inexpensively at some of my favorite stores like TJ Maxx or Marshalls.
While in my local grocery store I found an elastic with handles on an end cap by the mixed nuts for only five dollars. These can also be found at local discount stores as mentioned before. This is a home gym in itself. Arms, legs, chest, back and shoulders can get a great workout with this simple piece of equipment.
WED The Magazine
Using a few spaces in your home can add some variety in your workout and allow you to consistently work some key areas of your body, legs, butt and arms. You can use the side of your bath tub to do dips and work triceps. If you have steps you can use them to lunge onto, step up and down raising your heart rate in-between sets and stand on the edge and do calf raises. Doing sit ups and pushups are always easy to do at home as well.
{See WED Issue 1 for easy pushups at home.}
The best investment of any equipment in my opinion is the twenty dollars I spent on my stability ball. A 33 cm ball is appropriate for the average height woman and easy enough to be utilized by taller individuals as well. This can be used for improving the all important core muscles, improving balance and is great for a variety of sit-ups. As shown in the first issue, it can be used for pushups and it is a great replacement for a flat or incline bench for moves like chest press, seated bicep curls, overhead triceps extensions, and many shoulder exercises.
So go get that ball and Get Ready for the Gown!
Vol. 1, No. 4
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