Need A Home Workout Plan? Try DIY Home Renovations!

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Either the house can look good or I can look good.

What if I told you you can have both!?!

Many times a remodel is more than just updating the look of a room. You are also working your butt off–literally!!!

Exhibit #1: Weight loss.

Here is my husband pre and post our first home remodel. A few extenuating circumstances led him to pack on a few pounds beforehand.

Still a goofball and with crazy ideas involving lots of demo, hard work and never ending days, he was a changed man when the remodel was over.

Notice he looks smaller and healthier despite wearing an additional sweater, jeans and a beard!

Exhibit #2: All dressed up…to go to Home Depot?

Rocking a lighter colored wardrobe Trinity look, I am dolled up and ready to attend the wedding of dear friends.

Less than twenty-four hours later I look thrilled to be back on the remote job site. The pearls are a nice touch!

I’ll admit to recycling the hair one more day–remember we are working out here so it’s cool. It looks just as classy as the travertine tile surround I’m setting in the bathroom.

Lesson learned: A beautiful hairstyle full of bobby pins will not make it past the old school metal detector check when going through airport security. It is a sure way to set off the alarm and get a TSA pat down!

Exhibit #3: Toning it up!

Two months of stuccoing the outside of a house hauling eighty pound bags of stucco does more than create a smooth coat on the exterior. If done in the spring you are GUARANTEED a bikini body just in time for summer!

Nope. No picture proof of that one. You’ll just have to trust me. Instead, you can imagine what squatting, lifting eighty pound bags, mixing the stucco mix with water, and hauling it up a rickety scaffold does to a body. There are also the hours of holding a hawk while wielding a drywall knife in the other hand. At the end of the project your arms, core, glutes, and legs are ready for some summer sun.

Picture proof of a smooth coat stucco exterior and a rickety Frankenstein scaffold.

Why your DIY home workout plan is the way to go!

This is no “15 minute workout!” Try 15 hours on a weekend day or whatever you are willing to put in after work because you are excited to make progress. It’s a sneaky way of working out.

Is anyone ever truly excited to know today’s workout includes 10 sets of 10 burpees? Maybe your mind has a hard time wanting to do anything knowing exactly how much pain is involved ahead of time. However, when your mind is preoccupied with a task you don’t even think about the physical workout. 100 squats in a home workout plan? Try 1000 squats installing baseboard. How many squats do you REALLY have to do? Who knows. No one is counting.

The one time you do think about the byproduct of your DIY home renovation project is when you wake up the next day and realize what hurts!

With all these projects it doesn’t matter what you eat either. You burn it all off! You still need some cardio thrown in the mix, but there is no need for weightlifting at the gym.

This post is also not going to show up in a Google search for “at home workout plan without equipment.” You need any number of tools to get any project done. Hammers, shovels, and pneumatic nail guns are your go-to workout equipment (obligatory mention of my beloved wet tile saw here).

With all this extra activity you are leading a healthier lifestyle. This means if you don’t fall through a ceiling (or other unfortunate events) you might even visit your doctor less often.

So we’re talking a savings of time going to the gym, no gym memberships, no dieting, no food guilt, and a house and body that both look amazing. Of course the gym membership is getting poured into the project itself and maybe some extra donuts, pizza and beer. However, in the end you’ll probably get it back with the sale price of your house.

Are you convinced to tackle the next hardcore DIY project? Summer is already here, but a bikini body is welcome year round.

Saying this is a home workout plan is a strong use of the word “plan”. Is there really a plan? You know you have to complete a task. You don’t know how many squats that means. Depending on the speed and quality of your work maybe 50 or maybe 50,000. You do what you gotta do to get the job done.