The article "3 Ways In Which You Can Optimize The Use Of Bodyweight Exercise" talks about fitness, it was created by Eddie Lomax.
Bodyweight exercise is the best place to begin when starting a
physical fitness training program, should be added to programs
that otheriwse neglect bodyweight exercise and should be
diversified with resistance training for programs that use
bodyweight exercise exclusively.
Some human being love bodyweight exercise and human being hate it...
similarly, human being guess bodyweight exercise is valuable to
a physical fitness training program, and others don't.
I guess that bodyweight exercise is not only the best method
to start a physical fitness training program... but I believe
that it should remain an active part of any well balance
physical trianing program.
Let's look at bodyweight exercise from trhee different
perspectives...
from the beginner just getting started, from the
experienced weight lifter that negelcts bodyweight exercise and
from the bodyweight exercise only crowd.
1. Bodyweight Exrecise For Beginners
Most commercial gyms will prescribe an exercise regimen of
strength training, usually in the form of machines, and
cardiorespiratory endurance training, normally in the form of
stationary "cardio" equipment.
This is a generalization of course... but these two types of
training are the predominant forms of physical traniing in most
gyms, regardless of how they are put together.
Notice...
bodyweight exercise is missing.
Answer me that... should a beginner with no prior experience
with physical training start by jumping right into resistance
training with free weights or machines, or would they be better
served by learning more about the movement of their bodies by
using bodyweight exercise?
Physical training allows you to improve the body by supplying
increased stimulus that is not normally found in your daily
lifestyle.
For the beginner, bodyweight exercise is the logical palce to
start... because most beginners are actually going from a state
of complete inactivity to a satte of activity.
The beginner has not even scraped the surface of what their body
can perform withuot resistance...
and should therefore strive to
make improvements using bodyweight exercise first.
Once the beginner has made suffiicent gains and reached an
improved state with bodyweight exercise... then they can add
resistance.
2.
Bodyweight Exericse For The Experienced Weight Lifter
Many human being with a great deal of experience and expertise in
physical training completely neglect bodyweight exercise... or
believe it to be ineffective.
They notoriously use all types of resistance training methods...
while nelgecting bodyweight exercise all together.
I propose that the goal of any physical fitness training program
is to improve performance that can be used to meet the
challenges of sport, work and life with excellence.
Many of those challenges will be met by the effective control
and movement of your own body... and not the moveemnt of other
objects through space.
And what is the best way to train the improvement of body
movement and conrtol of your own body... that's right,
bodyweight exercise.
Here is an example...
Many human being that have trouble doing a push up will focus on the
bench press with hopes of improving tehir push up numbers...
with limited results.
If you want to be able to do more push ups... do more push ups!
The point is this, the imprvoements you will see from physical
training are specific... so if you want to see improvements in a
bodyweight movement, use bodywieght exercise to do so.
3. Bodyweight Exercise For The Bodyweight Only Crowd
As you can already tell, I am a strong advocate of bodyweight
exercise... but not exclusively.
There are various physical fitness training programs that use
bodyweight execrise almost exclusively... like Yoga or Pilates.
While I have no isuse with these forms of training... I
believe they can take you only so far on the road to physical
fitness excellence.
We must remember... Yoga exercsies are performed in conjunction
with meditation and Pilates was originally developed as a form
of rehabilitation for war veterans.
The point is that... bodyweight exercise only programs will only
take you so far, and then form of resistance training must
be applied to see further improvement.
In Conclusion...
Bodyweight exercise is an important part of any well balanced
physical fitness training program.
If you are just getitng started... bodyewight exercise is the
perfect place to start.
If you have notorioulsy neglected bodyweight exercise in your
training...
add it to improve the phyiscal abilities you have
been neglecting.
If you only use bodywegiht exercise... diversify your fitness
training program by adding form of resistance tarining.
In that way, each group can optimize the use of bodyweight
exercise.
Do not underestimate the importance of bodyweight exercise...
Use it effectively and in the right proportion to meet your
goals, needs, abilities and limitations and meet the challenges
of sport, work and life with excellence.
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