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- Free weights – are dumbbells, barbells, and kettlebells. Shoot, you can even use canned foods to imitate free weights!
- Weight machines – equipment with seats and attached handles to weights or hydraulics for the pushing or pulling effect.
- Resistance bands – these are like giant rubber bands. When stretched, they provide resistance. They are portable. You can take them practically anywhere. You don’t need a lot of space to work out with bands. They provide resistance throughout the whole movement of the exercise.
- Your body weight – you can use your body weight for squats, push-ups, situps, planks, and chin-ups. Using your body weight is convenient, especially when traveling or at work, and of course, you do not need a lot of space to exercise using your body weight.
Now that you have your choices for resistance, you may ask yourself which option to use.
You should first talk to your doctor about your willingness to exercise.
Do what the doctor recommends.
If your doctor tells you to do whatever you want, I recommend using your body weight for starters and working your way up to bands and then weights.
I’ll be talking about the exercises you can use with each of the methods in a later post. Stay tuned….