The Best Way to do Workouts Without Weights

What is the most effective and result-producing way to do workouts without weights I hear you ask? Before I discuss some of the techniques used when doing workouts without weights, let’s look at the reasons that many people do it:

To build muscle

To maintain muscle

To do it in combination with your existing weight training to mix it up

As a warm-up or pump-up routine

To get back into training after a layoff or even injury

It may also be because you don’t have time, room, or the spare cash for a gym membership.

Some Techniques

Iso- the tension was a favorite of Arnold Schwarzenegger which involved just flexing the muscle really hard and holding it in that position for at least a count of ten. It has been said that this routine gave him a really chiseled, rock-hard look. Read more »

Fitness: Be A Man of Fitness

Fitness is the essence of a man. Fitness is the ability of a person to do his normal everyday tasks with full alertness and vigor without worrying about fatigue afterward and with extra energy in reserve which can be useful when emergencies arise or during leisure and recreation. Overall fitness must be the primary goal every man must try to achieve. In fitness, no one is ever too young or too old for improvement.

One’s fitness can be improved by engaging in aerobic exercises and strength training. There are three components of overall fitness that every man must focus on working out in order to be in healthy, tip-top shape. These are cardiovascular work, strength training, and of course, these should be coupled with a healthy diet. Staying strong by building muscles. Man’s fitness regimen should include a workout routine that aims to build muscles. Aging causes a decrease in muscle mass of five to seven pounds (2-3.2 kgs) of muscle for every ten years in one’s adult life given that he lives an inactive lifestyle. Truly, the saying “use it or lose it” is very applicable to the muscles. Fortunately, there is a good solution to this. Loss of muscle mass can be replaced by engaging in strength training. Improvement of Man’s fitness by cardiovascular work out. Flexibility exercises, strength training and cardiovascular work out surely help boost a man’s fitness and all these should be part of a man’s workout scheme. But of all these, cardiovascular work is the most necessary. Exercises under cardiovascular work conditions and develops the cardiovascular system and also work out large muscle groups. So if a man does not have much time for working out, devoting whatever free time he might have to aerobic exercises would do him fine. He might have to pass out on developing those biceps but so long as cardiovascular work out exercises are done, then the blood pressure, heart, and cholesterol levels will Read more »

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