Errin Esquerre

The Gym-Less Workout Errin Esquerre

As everyone is stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, without access to our usual workout studios or fitness equipment, we're getting creative with our exercises. While there are countless household items that double as workout equipment, it's also worth noting that you can weight train without weights. Seriously. Olympic weightlifter Allan Contreras, a coach at Future training, knows this firsthand. As someone who competes (in the Olympics, no less) by lifting heavy weights, he's in the same situation as the rest of the world, unable to train in the usual, out-of-the-house manner. What's an Olympic weightlifter to do? Work with his own body weight. "I turn to some of my go-to bodyweight exercises, which I do three times a week in the morning," says Contreras, noting that they help to wake his body up and work all of his muscles. The moves that he turns to work together for full-body strength, gets his body working on multiple planes (think lateral movements), strengthen his stabilizer muscles, and all essentially make his body more primed to take on heavy weights again once he's able to do so. Keep scrolling for his go-to at-home workout-zero equipment needed. This book will tell you about it!