How Can I Stay in Shape at Home With Minimal Equipment?

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How can I stay in shape at home with minimal equipment? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Carol from Instagram asks, how can I stay in shape at home with minimal equipment? I have few free weights, a mat and an exercise ball. What do you think? Hey, it's J.J. and I've got the perfect person to answer this question. I motivational speaker, healthy lifestyle expert, and former celebrity fitness expert Danette May here with me to answer this. Now, you may know her for her books and her media appearances, maybe her delicious Cacao Bliss product. But did you know that she's also an adrenaline junkie who loves challenging her body in unique ways, including Spartan races? She'll be right back to answer this question. Stay with us.

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I love this question about minimal equipment because I'm all about the minimal equipment. I love making my body the gym. My body weight is the weights. I love doing body weight exercises because then I know I'm not overextending and I'm not creating injury in my body by over lifting my my strength level. I can use my body weight and really progress to the next level. So if you have a mat and free weights and an exercise ball, you're doing pretty dang awesome. And there are so many things you can do and it can be really fun. You can create a whole circuit around that. So I always just you guys. There's no shortage of free workouts online. Literally. You could type into YouTube body weight workout or at home workout. You can go to danettemay.com and you can find so you can go to my YouTube channel and find tons of workouts. You can do bice stuff for your arms, stuff for your abs, your legs. With free weights. The mat's just gonna kind of give you a little support on your back and on your knees when you're going down and up. And the exercise ball. There's so many fun things and I love to do stuff with my abs with the exercise ball. But you can also do some balance things, really working on the quad activation and the glute activation. If I was demoing it, I would but look up on YouTube exercise ball movements and then just start from there. I love giving people the freedom to understand that you can find so many resources at the touch of a finger if you have a computer or phone that there's just no excuse not to get healthy. It's just making it a priority. Look within yourself and say it's time. Like it's time for me to own that I can't delegate my health. It's time for me to become my best friend, for me to be my biggest advocate and for me to step into feeling better. I deserve to feel better, therefore I'm going to take care of myself. I I'm sending all my love to everyone listening. Thank you so much for tuning in and have an amazing day.

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