Bodyweight Exercises 101:
The Secret to Working Out Anytime, Anywhere
With hundreds of challenging bodyweight exercises freely at your disposal, your body is actually the best piece of home gym “workout equipment” in the world…you literally have all the equipment you would ever need to quickly transform your physique.
Two reasons to include bodyweight exercises into your workouts:
1. You burn way more calories with a short bodyweight cardio workout than you do with a boring old cardio workout.
2. Needing little or no equipment, bodyweight workouts give you more flexibility and convenience in deciding when and where to workout.
9 Bodyweight Exercise Resources
I’ve written a lot about how to use your own bodyweight to burn fat and build muscle, and below are some of my more popular posts. Afterward you’ll find one of the best bodysculpting bodyweight workout packages around.
9 Bodyweight Exercise Tips From the Pros
5 Best Bodyweight Exercises for Your Chest [video]
Bodyweight Cardio 3 Workouts You Can Do Anywhere [video]
FREE – Download “The Gauntlet” – An Advanced Bodyweight Exercise Program
Bodyweight Exercise Substitution List
More Bodyweight Exercise Substitutions
Bodyweight Challenge – 250 reps [video]
Bodyweight Challenge – 500 reps [video included]
Ultimate Bodyweight Package Deal
Let’s face it, we’re busier now more than ever, and that why it’s important for anyone serious about losing fat and staying lean and sculpted to have a stash of dependable bodyweight workouts that they can do virtually anytime, anywhere.
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Comments on Bodyweight Exercises 101: »
how tall does the bench has to be to be able to do step up?
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cbathletics Reply:
October 9th, 2011 at 6:47 am
you can start at 6 inches with a regular step for beginners. Then use a regular gym bench if you are advanced.
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sorry is me again. I’m thinking in buying a pull up bar for my door in order to do the inverted rows, question, how tall those the bar have to be from the floor? and Thanks in advance.
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cbathletics Reply:
December 18th, 2011 at 4:00 pm
I don’t know, sorry
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esther Reply:
December 20th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
it’s ok, i just found out is like 2 to 3 feet off the floor. Thanks anyway.
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Yellow
love your workout. They are fun to do and can be done in the comfort of my room. A stupid question i’m going to ask today, when you say to use a medium stability ball, what is the number exactly for the ball? I’m using one, thinking of buying one with the sand on the bottom to stay firm. So thanks in advance, sorry again for the question. Again Love the workout.
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Ok forget the question about the ball. It was stupid and a waist of your time in which i’m SORRY. But here is a question that i need your help. Do you have any advice in how to do more push up? i can do 10 without the need to put my knees in the floor, im always stuck in the same number. and HOW TO DO MORE THAT ONE PULL UP? IT IS A GIRL CURSE NOT TO BE ABLE TO DO MORE PUSH UP OR PULL UPS? I NEED GUIDANCE?
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Bubble-J Reply:
May 19th, 2012 at 5:37 am
Slow down the exercise. For push ups, lower to the floor for 3 counts (say 1-2-3), then hold for 1 count, and push off the floor for 1 count. Apply same to pull ups: 2-1-2 count. Get ready to be sore!
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Esther Reply:
May 24th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I though, I will never get a answer. Again, THANK YOU.
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hey, i wanted to ask. I usually workout at home but i dont have a place to do the inverted rows, but i do have a pullup bar, is there any variation of the pull-up or chin-up i can do instead of the inverted row ?
Thanks in advance
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cbathletics Reply:
April 21st, 2012 at 4:30 am
Yes, sternum pullups. Pull your chest up to the bar while leaning back slightly.
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Bodyweight exercises are simple, yet profound on the effect they have on your body composition and metabolism!
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cbathletics Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
Truly
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I saw your ad for the 50 trainer certification today and had a few questions before enrolling. I am a certified trainer who has stopped training locally in order to make my business all web based. I own and operate 2 diet centers currently and would like to take the training part of my business online along with producing dvd series. Will nay of these topics be covered in the program. How much of the program is geared towards nutrition ? I am a certified trainer.
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cbathletics Reply:
December 11th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
Hi Ed,
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Thanks,
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