Has anyone had success with Ian King’s
bodyweight only method?
http://t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=459685
I am going to Europe for 6 weeks, and will probably not be able to hit a gym on a regular basis, and figure bodyweight exercise in the park or room will be a nice change of pace…
nobody… not even ickymoley?
i’m going to Eurotrashland for 10 days tomorrow. THANKS for the idea. i was planning on some sprinting, pushups, pullups, etc. anyhow. oh yeah, and lots of Swiss Miss.
BFG
You can get a good workout doing bodyweight exercises. Pushups are great, especially Rocky pushups (the one arm ones), dive bombers, and close grips. And Handstand pushups are excellent, though I think I used to wide of a grip and fucked up my wrist (be careful with them, falling hurts!).
one leg squats are murderous, as well as the one leg deadlifts. You wont get massive off them, but I they will keep your strength up to par, and maybe even help out with balance and what not. As I tell everyone, its always better than doing nothing!
As others mentioned, you can get some great workouts using bodyweight only. This works especially well while on vacation or not being able to hit the weights. You can make it as easy or as hard as you want.
I’ve had breaks in training where I only used bodyweight and a few kbell exercises. It helped maintain size and conditioning, but over time, you will lose strength.
As for exercises, stick with a variety of pushups, chins, handstand pushups, one-legged squats and deadlifts, sprints, burpees, jumping jacks and other bodyweight GPP exercises. If you can take a towel and jump rope with you, you’ll be able to get some great workouts (towel chins anywhere you can hang from). And if you have room for a kbell or dumbbell, you’ll have even more diversity.
Lever progessions for ab+lat training.
One word:
ISOMETRICS!!!
Try holding the 90 degree angle on a pushup for as long as you can, do a few sets of that. Check out some of CT’s articles on training without weights. Holding a 90 degree angle on squats is also a tough thing to do. You can also hang off of a tall stairwell or something and do pull ups, or isometric poses in the pull up position. Just get creative, good luck!
[quote]GriffinC wrote:
One word:
ISOMETRICS!!!
Try holding the 90 degree angle on a pushup for as long as you can, do a few sets of that. Check out some of CT’s articles on training without weights. Holding a 90 degree angle on squats is also a tough thing to do. You can also hang off of a tall stairwell or something and do pull ups, or isometric poses in the pull up position. Just get creative, good luck![/quote]
There a big difference between a static hold and a maximum force isometric contraction. Static hold with body weight will increase muscular endurance but aren’t much good for strength.