Lockdown is a crucial step, to minimize the spread of COVID-19, but will it have an impact on our health and wellbeing? Research says that being inactive is terrible for your physical and mental health, so staying active during this hard time is important. Being physically inactive can result in lower blood pressure and cholesterol and significantly increase the risk of heart disease & diabetes. Performing some physical body exercises and activities helps maintain bone density and muscle mass, it keeps your immune system stronger and flushes out bacteria from the lungs and airways, which help the body fight infection and viruses.

Before this quarantine, most of you were going to the gym for exercise or go for a run in the park but to maintain that fitness and body you should now workout at home. So here are some easy and effective exercises you can perform to keep that body fit and healthy:

1. Deadlift

All you need a thicker resistance band for performing deadlift at home. Targeting legs and back deadlifts are extremely practical and effective exercises you can perform at home. Stretching both ends of the band at once will generate huge resistance.

2. Military Press

One of the best shoulder exercises, you can perform Military Press at home using a resistance band. If you’ve struggled to manage the balance of barbell practicing traditional barbell military press at the gym, you should definitely try this exercise at home as it will enhance your strength due to the smoother resistance.

3. Resisted Push Up

Resisted pushups will squeeze out your chest like anything. Just fix the band behind your chest and push off the floor, slowly raise your body up until your arms are straight. Then return to the starting position and Repeat.

4. One Arm Row

Fix your resistance band to the door handle and you’re ready to go. Bend forward and pull the band towards yourself, squeeze the back muscle until it comes close to your lower chest.

5. Chest press

Resistance band chest press is another great exercise for your chest. You can perform chest press by fixing the resistance band at the door, and then stretching it towards your chest, squeezing all chest muscles. For best results press out explosively and return back slowly.

6. Lunges

This single-leg bodyweight exercise works great for your hips, quads, hamstrings, glutes, and core. Promoting functional movement, Lunges increases the strength of your legs and glutes. It can help you develop lower-body strength and endurance. It effectively targets your lower-body muscles without placing added strain on your joints and quads.