You don't need to leave your home to exercise. Maybe you're suffering from gym burnout, or you just can't be bothered to get a gym membership. Either way, exercise has never been simpler!

These 6 exercises are tailored to help you build muscle from the comfort of your own home with just one surprise piece of equipment: a chair!

The squat is an incredibly simple yet effective lower body exercise. While it's great on its own, you can jazz it up using a chair.

Here's how you should do it:

This exercise will primarily work your triceps and pecs. To do a triceps dip, you'll need a chair and good balance.

Here's how you should do it:

The chair lift is an exercise that works your back and shoulders. It’s a simple movement, but it can be made more challenging by raising your feet or adding weights to your hands.

Here's how you should do it:

Here's how you should do it:

The main precaution is not to let your front knee go past your toes or touch the floor when you lower yourself down into a lunge; we want to keep both knees behind our toes throughout this exercise. Also, try not to let your back knee touch down either—it should stay off-the-floor throughout each rep of this move.

Here's how you should do it:

Here's how you should do it:

Having a desk job and no gym membership are not reasons enough to slack. Get in shape even if you are pressed for time, and try squeezing in a couple of these simple exercises. As these take very little time, you'll be amazed at how much better your body feels after just one day on this routine.

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