Bodyweight exercises and what they can achieveWelcome to unique bodyweight exercises the home of improvement through exercise using only your body and the will for change. Here you will find all the information you need on the benefits of body weight exercises as well as many tutorials describing the most basic to advanced exercises such as the dragon flag.  So what can bodyweight exercises do for you? How about build amazing strength, superb fitness, huge muscles, improve your sporting performance and increase your health and vitality. In fact, what ever your training goal you will find the answer training the natural way. why don’t more people take advantage? Well several reasons, one being that fitness is now a huge industry and therefore only promotes the ideas that will earn big bucks. The philosophy of many gyms being as Cuba Gooding Jr said in the film Jerry Maguire, show me the money. In short, if everybody knew that you have everything you need to train in your own home, gyms would go out of business. So remember, if you want to improve your health or become as fit as an athlete, lose a few pounds or achieve drastic weight loss, gain a bit of strength or become almost superhumanly strong. You do not need a gym to do it; you can train anywhere using your own body as the resistance as seen here with the Lalanne push up.  You can even develop the amazing strength that enables you to do the Lalanne press up using only one finger and thumb of each hand.  In fact, I believe the programs most gyms have in place today have the opposite effect of the fitness goals people desire. Why? Because running endlessly and doing set after set of weights to burn fat not only weakens your body and lowers your immune system but it does not work. All it does is erode your enthusiasm to such a level that most of us quit, and the sad fact is, we then consider ourselves failures for not achieving the goals we started training for in the first place. There has to be a better way? So what is the answer? Bodyweight exercises, this is after all the most natural way to train, it is what nature intended. Have you ever seen a cat pick up weights and do a quick chest workout? No, it does not happen, but you do see cats stretching, jumping, climbing and running around like there is no tomorrow because they need to be fit to survive, so get fit with natural exercises such as the awesome one arm chin up.
 The benefits of bodyweight exercises Fitness, you can start this program at any time, regardless of your present condition and if you want to, you can take it to a point were you are almost as fit as an Olympic athlete but give it time before you start counting your gold medals. Weight loss, these routines are simply the best thing you can do for losing either a few pounds or changing your physic completely. You can start at a level that suits you and then progress as you get fitter and stronger. For example, you can start doing your press ups against a wall until you develop more strength. Remember, your body is an ingenious creation that tries to protect you at all times. So when you are doing these exercises your body’s metabolism will do its best to make sure you lose fat and therefore make the exercises easier and less likely to injure you. This is the complete opposite to weight training were because you are lifting heavy weights your body’s natural inclination is to get bigger. Strength, if you want to increase your strength just a little or even build extreme strength, it can be done easily and safely with these training methods. What ever strength goal you have in mind, bodyweight exercises are the key. By simply changing the position of your body and therefore the leverage, you can create exercises which even advanced trainers would struggle to do. I promise you can build a level of strength that will leave your gym buddies open mouthed and full of envy when you do exercises like the advanced bench dip.
 Muscle, if you want to build muscle try doing hand stand press ups against a wall and see how much your shoulders grow. Once you can do 8 to 10 reps (the current thinking on building muscle) simply start doing them on one arm and build up again. When you can do 8 to 10 reps of one arm hand stand press ups I congratulate you. You are then in my opinion an extremely strong athlete but if you want you can make the exercise even more difficult by including a static hold at the bottom of the rep. So remember when it comes to bodyweight exercises you are only limited by your imagination. What about sport, boxing or martial arts? For sport these exercises have no substitute because they are so adaptable. For example, if your sport requires more strength but no gain in weight, it is easy to achieve with this program. Also bodyweight exercises improve speed, coordination and flexibility so they are a great inclusion to any sports training program. Take boxing as an example, as someone who boxed for many years I can tell you that these exercises are the cornerstone of most training routines and coaches know the benefits of exercises such as the full hanging leg raise.  What about training for women? Yes, you’ve guessed it! Bodyweight exercises are the absolute best way for women to train simply because most women have far less time than men. It can be very difficult for busy working mothers to find time to go to the gym or even to have 30 minutes a day for one training session, but everybody can find 5 minutes at some point in the day to do a quick bodyweight circuit. Do a few of these 5 minute sessions in one day and before you know it you have the start of your very own training program. Another reason why these exercises are great for women is because most women either want to lose weight or control it and as I said earlier, your body will always try to protect you, so when you are doing bodyweight exercises your body’s natural inclination is to burn fat and therefore make even exercises such as the L-seat easier next time you train.  Remember only bodyweight exercises develop the power to do press ups on your thumbs.  Finally, if you are thinking of joining the armed forces consider this, when judging your strength and fitness the instructors have you do bodyweight exercises like pull ups, press ups and sit ups. They do not judge you on how much weight you can lift because they know that real strength is bodyweight strength and they know how important this is in real situations. I once took part in a fitness competition where the king of the gym could not even do 7 pull ups, do not let this happen to you, build strength the natural way with exercises such as the full ab wheel rollout.  Or progress to the worlds best ab exercise the legendary one arm ab roll out.  Remember bodyweight exercises cost nothing and you do not need expensive gym memberships or equipment. The information here is totally free so no more excuses. What are you waiting for? Start your journey to the new you today with safe, simple and effective exercises such as the one leg squat  And build a body that is as supple and strong as you desire.   
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