Tips to Enliven Your Home Workouts

#1 – Dress to Impress YOU: The last thing you want is to feel frumpy and unattractive while you’re exercising! By putting on some of those form-fitting athletic pants and tops that cling to your body, you’re creating a good state of mind to pay attention to muscle contour, tone, and strength. These athletic clothes also help your body to breathe while exercising and allow for the range of motion you need to follow through with effective home workouts. One of the most rewarding things about investing in quality exercise apparel is that it reveals the transformation of your body that occurs during your healthy lifestyle journey: in just a few weeks of consistent home workouts, you’ll begin to notice significant improvement in how your body looks in those form-fitting clothes!

#2 – Listen to Music: Sure, you’ve heard how music can help motivate you during exercise, but music is also a form of sound healing that sends positive, enlivening vibrations throughout your body. These vibrations help make your body and mind more open to being healthy and strong. In fact, a 2012 research study published in the Nutrition journal shows that music significantly helps to regulate and increase metabolism!

#3 – Give Yourself Healthy Rewards: After your home workouts, do something healthy for your body, such as an herbal bath or home massage. Oftentimes, unhealthy habits are connected to unhealthy thinking habits about rewards, and moving away from a reward system that involves food can create new, healthy habits. A little lavender essential oil in a warm bath relaxes, opens pores, releases toxins, and helps rid your body of excess water weight. Circular self-massage with oils like jojoba, almond, and even castor oil also increase circulation and oxygenation in the muscles, while feeling wonderful at the same time! By rewarding yourself with healthy habits like this, you can enliven the experience and results of your home workouts!