Did you eat and play hard during the vacation? Then, it is time to take care of your health with the CAH. To exercise, you can register at a gym or enjoy sports with your friends. But what if you were tired of your busy school life and couldn't find time for yourself? It’s time for some Home Training! Home training are simple exercises that can be done at home, not at a professional sports facility. New words such as 'Home-T(Home training)' and 'Hometness(Home+Fitness)' have been coined, and home training is gaining huge popularity among young people. As a result, sales of various home training equipment are booming and a huge amount of media content that are related to this is pouring down. Then, let’s find out why home training has become popular, and what some home training methods are.

According to a survey of 831 adult men and women conducted by Job Korea and Albamon, 57.3 percent said they do home training regularly. There are three main reasons why home training is trendy in various social classes regardless of nationality and age. First, you are not restricted by time or place because you can take care of your health at home. This comes as a great advantage, especially for busy modern people. In the case of office workers, it is not only difficult to find time during the day, but sometimes they cannot exercise due to unexpected variable situations such as dining out or working overtime. For exercise facilities such as fitness centers and swimming pools, there is a set operating time. Also, it can be uncomfortable because there are many other people at certain times. However, if you train at home, you can exercise as much as you want in your free time. Second, the cost is low. As mentioned earlier, expensive gym memberships will be useless if unforeseen circumstances prevent us from exercising. Also, for students and social beginners who do not make much money, home training can be a hobby with much less financial burden. Even if you don't have professional sports equipment, you can get enough exercise at home. Lastly, you don't have to worry to other people watching you. Many people may find it burdensome to do strenuous exercise in public or feel shy about group sports such as aerobics and music boxing. However, because home training has the advantage of being free from such an outside perspective, it is possible to exercise in the most comfortable state. In addition, according to respondents to the survey conducted by Job Korea and Albamon, there were other reasons such as 'because there are many home training contents that can be easily followed' and 'because they are free from fine dust or rain and are not weather-bound'.

Searching for 'Home Training' on YouTube finds about 25 million videos. This can only be seen as a measure of the global popularity of home training. Most of these videos feature ordinary people or trainers, which show you how to exercise easily at home. Since these are home training videos, most were filmed in a living room or on the side of the room inside the house. They often also introduce you to exercises you can do without professional exercise equipment or simple exercises using chairs or towels in your house, so you can do it by yourself. 

Let’s now look at a few popular home training YouTube channels. The first is 'Thankyou Bubu’. It introduces in detail a variety of exercise methods that beginners can easily follow. This channel is popular as the entry barrier is low. The exercises are generally recommended to people living in apartments because the movement is not very intense and its noise is low. The next is 'Fitness Blender' with 5.7 million subscribers. Since coaches of men and women offer different home training exercises, we can learn how to exercise according to respective gender. It is especially suitable for those who enjoy calm and static exercise because it does not have any special background music. Lastly, it is ‘Popsuga Fitness’. Each video has a very different feeling because it invites a variety of guests to show different sports. Some critics say that the intensity of the exercises is high, but the satisfaction of subscribers is high because they are able to do dynamic exercise in a fun and exciting atmosphere. There are countless other home trainers on YouTube, so watch the video and find a channel that fits you well.

With home training in vogue, the retail industry is also releasing a variety of home-training devices. With Fila, Homeplus introduced a female fitness device called Filafit. In addition to clothing products such as leggings and T-shirts, a variety of sports equipment have also been launched to help you enjoy exercise at home. These include yoga mats and stretching bands, fitness gloves, gymballs, foam rollers, etc. There is also a home training game that has been gaining huge attention online recently. It is called ‘Ringfit Adventure’, which is a console game that was released on Nintendo Switch. First launched in October last year, Ringfit was so popular that despite its fairly high price, it was sold out of stores nationwide. It is a game where you wear an enclosed thigh strap and lift the pilates ring to follow the motions. The advantage of the device is that it is fun to exercise because it is played in a game format.

Unlike professional sports facilities, regular homes tend to have weak sound insulation. Therefore, if you exercise too much in your home, it is highly likely that you will experience noise conflicts between floors. In fact, Park, an office worker who lives in a multi-family house in Yongsan, Seoul, is said to be suffering from severe home training noises for an hour every evening. Special personal attention is required to prevent this problem in these days when noise between floors is a sensitive issue. It is recommended to minimize noise by placing interlayer noise abatement mats or exercise mainly in motion that does not include jumping positions. There are also concerns that home training could hurt your health. This is because for beginners who are not familiar with exercise, they can take the wrong posture or over-exercise when they do home training alone. Kim Sun-jin, a professor at Seoul National University, explained, "Since home training does not provide a level-by-level explanation, it can be dangerous if you follow the moves blindly". In addition, she advised that home training will help those who have worked out in the past, and those who don't need to be careful by consulting experts. Therefore, sufficient stretching should be done before and after the start of exercise. Also, choosing the right strength when choosing exercise can improve exercise efficiency.

The number of people who enjoy home training is expected to increase further in the coming years due to the increasingly individualized social trend and the rise of single-person households. If you keep the previous precautions and proceed with regular home training, you will be able to stay healthy and fit. Why don't you make a new exercise plan using home training for the new semester?