What do all these things have in common: the gym, equipment, treadmills, dumbbells, ab rotators, and exercise bikes? The answer is they all cost money. They also take up time to use. Now what do pushups, situps, squats sprints have in common? They are absolutely free, and they just require you to use your body weight. That's all body weight exercise is. It's using your body weight to train your muscles all around your body. The other thing is you don't have to make the time consuming trek to the gym either because you can do these exercises in your own home.
I would like to present to you the 3 reasons why Body Weight exercises beat Weight Training outside the fact that they are free, and less time consuming.
1. Correct Training Style - High Intensity Body-Weight Training
Bodyweight exercises have the potential to burn more fat than weight training can. Why? The key thing is how you apply yourself. A set of various bodyweight exercises one after the other with periods of rest in between acts as a high intensity interval training routine. The impact of this is far greater than exercise in the gym because it gets the whole body to participate instead of working slowly on one particular muscle group such as the biceps in a gym situation. This kind of exercise actually burns fat after the workout as the body needs to build up more fast fuel which is glucose, and it burns fat to provide this.
2. Safety is Always Important
Basically, bodyweight training is far safer than working out in the gym. You never have to worry about dealing with heavy or technical equipment, or overexerting yourself with free weights. It is very easy to get hurt in the gym, and it has happened to me a few times when I used to frequent the gym back in my college days. At home, you can relax into a set of body weight exercises, and as long as you do some simple stretches, your body will be able to handle almost any bodyweight exercise without injury.
3. Body-Weight Exercise Develops a More Natural Body Shape
Unless you are a professional bodybuilder, you can rest assured that the best body shape to impress the opposite sex is a naturally shaped, body that is in proportion. Nobody likes a weird body that might have huge chest and biceps, and tiny legs. Sometimes, weight training focuses too much on certain muscles. With bodyweight training, you can be sure that all your body muscles are being worked out equally, and you build solid muscle mass all around the body. Circulation also improves because you don't make oversized bulked up muscles in one place and undersized muscles in other places.
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