Exercise Routines for Women

If you're just starting out with a regular exercise routine, you may want to try something low impact. This will be less stressful on your joints, especially your knees and ankles. You'll still get a great workout but there's nothing more stressful than starting up an exercise routine that's too difficult and becoming frustrated so early on.

Exercise routines for women who have been sedentary for awhile or have not had time to workout with some frequency are easy to come by. You don't have to go hog wild at the start, no matter how eager you are to get fit. Remember, simply adopting a routine at all is a huge goal in itself.

I've had a gym membership for years - 9 years and 8 months to be exact. I got a great deal through my employer for $12 per month. However, it cost me another $30 a month to sign up my husband and cover the option for daycare for the kids when they were younger. I haven't been to the gym now in over 6 years and, yes, I'm still paying for that darn membership. I have the forms - FINALLY - to cancel the membership but they just don't make it all that easy.

Really, all I need is a set of weights and a treadmill and I'm good to go. Now that my kids are older, it's easier to exercise at home anyway.

The following exercise routines for women can be done at home and this first one focuses on how to use your own body weight for an exercise routine with no equipment.

To really get the most from an exercise routine, you need to change up the exercises to continuously challenge different muscle groups. Your muscles "remember" exercises so after awhile the same exercise routine isn't really giving you the same benefits it did when you started. Here's a six week program with lots of variety and you could easily perform these routines at home.

For a calorie burning routine that will keep your metabolism churning for quite some time after, try this total body exercise routine for women.

When you don't have a lot of time, or if you're trying to take your exercise routine to the next level, exercises that work multiple muscle groups at one time squeeze lots of work into shorter periods of time. You'll really feel this one all over!

This is a really thorough workout with some really cool exercises. The trainer walks you through the entire program in a shortened version. You could easily follow along by pausing to do the entire set instead of the shortened set and get in the full workout.

This works your arms, legs, glutes, abs, and gets a little cardio in by being such a fast-paced routine. Great routine to have handy on your laptop and take with you on the road if you travel.

It's a fact, many women want nice, toned arms - makes wearing tank tops and sleeveless dresses a whole lot more fun. Getting those arms, however, can take some additional concentration on your arm exercise routines. Here's a routine devoted to just arms.