Body Weight Exercises for Resistance Training

There are many benefits to body weight exercises and training. One of the biggest reasons many people choose this kind of exercise is because it requires no machines or extra weights. Most people can lift their own body in one way or another in exercises like the push up, crunch, squat or pull up.

The degree of difficulty comes from the angle at which you perform the exercise. The push up for example can be performed on the knees for easier difficulty or for more resistance the feet could be placed on a weight bench causing the angle of difficulty to increase. The changing angle causes more weight to be concentrated downward on your arms because of gravity. The concept of adding more resistance can be applied to squats by simply doing one legged squats with the aid of a bench.

Different exercises can be combined and performed in intervals with short periods of rest between each exercise, or sets of exercises. This type of training is called circuit training and helps improve cardiovascular fitness along with muscular endurance. Circuits could be as small as four exercises or as much as 15 depending on how much work you're willing to do.

Although body weight exercises are simple and cost little to no money, adding weight training to your general exercise is recommended for developing a higher level of strength. keeping this in mind, all kinds of different types of exercises should be performed to promote total body health.


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