Total Bodyweight Transformation

Other Forms of Exercise That Incorporate Bodyweight Training

Bodyweight training has a great number of advantages. This is a way to work out that will allow you to increase your ‘strength to weight ratio’ thereby becoming more agile, more acrobatic and more powerful. You’ll be fast like a coiled spring and strong in a functional way that equates to real-world usefulness.

But there’s no such thing as a perfect training modality. And one of the biggest complaints you’ll often hear from people who use bodyweight training is that they don’t like it because it’s ‘boring’. Doing press ups can get old fast and unfortunately just isn’t quite so challenging or exciting as lifting 100K over your head. It doesn’t turn heads in quite the same way and the progress can often feel a lot less rewarding.

But that’s why it’s such a good thing that you can use bodyweight training as part of a more fun or interesting activity or even sport. Let’s take a look at some of the great ways you can incorporate bodyweight training into your routine without it feeling like a dull workout. Here are some great examples…

Rock Climbing (Bouldering)

Rock climbing is one of the most fantastic bodyweight workouts there is. It is incredibly fun and rewarding whether you’re going to do it seriously or just for fun. It involves using your forearms and grip strength to cling to the tiny cracks in the rocks. With this it can quickly build Popeye-like proportions. From there, you’ll be using your lats and your biceps to pull up the wall and scale it like Spider-Man. Better yet, you’ll also be holding yourself in position for long periods of time using your legs alone. This quickly builds a lot more quadriceps and hamstring strength so that you’ll be getting a truly full body workout.

Bouldering is a great way to get started with this. Bouldering effectively means that you’re climbing smaller rocks that present a challenge for how to get to the top. There’s no rope and you use a crash mat – so you can turn up at a climbing center and just get started!


Other Forms of Climbing

Don’t have a climbing center near you? Not sure you fancy the idea of climbing up the nearby cliffs? A great alternative is something called ‘traversing’ which is essentially sideways rock climbing. Here you never get that high up and as a result you don’t need a rope. As long as you have some kind of natural cliff or wall you can try it yourself!

Or how about climbing a tree?

Hand Balancing

Hand balancing is a lost art that is highly rewarding and challenging. Being able to go from a pike position to a handstand requires a ton of muscle power and control, as well as balance. When you pull it off though, you’ll have a party trick that’s far more impressive than lifting 100KG and that you can actually do at a party!

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Exceptionally skilled Kung Fu Master in Chinese Kung Fu Wu Su - Northern and Southern Style Kung Fu. With 30+ years of training and practice in internal and external hard styles of Chinese Kung Fu as well as specialized discipline techniques such as Iron Body, Golden Forearm, Copper Elbow, Cotton Fist, "Steel Wrap in Cotton", "Needle Hide in Cotton Pillow" and Steel Leg.

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