Limited equipment/ body weight workouts

Shane-1

Hello everyone,

I have been working out for several years now with mostly free weights. I have just moved to an apartment with a very basic gym, ie a couple of those weights machines - pec deck, lat pull down, leg press etc. It has no free weights. I try to work out to increase bulk and strength, and I love to have variety in my routine, otherwise I get bored with training after a few weeks! Does anyone have any advice on some decent bodyweight work outs or work outs that can be performed with limited equipment?

Thanks for any help you might have

Remmy

If your goal is to bulk up and increase strength you cant get that from bodyweight exercises.

d'Oracle

Shane-1 wrote: »

Hello everyone,

I have been working out for several years now with mostly free weights. I have just moved to an apartment with a very basic gym, ie a couple of those weights machines - pec deck, lat pull down, leg press etc. It has no free weights. I try to work out to increase bulk and strength, and I love to have variety in my routine, otherwise I get bored with training after a few weeks! Does anyone have any advice on some decent bodyweight work outs or work outs that can be performed with limited equipment?

Thanks for any help you might have

http://www.beastskills.com/

http://www.drillsandskills.com/

Might help you pick out some hard stuff to do.

DSACRAWLER

Remmy wrote: »

If your goal is to bulk up and increase strength you cant get that from bodyweight exercises.

BULL**** possibly the most retarded thing i`ve ever heard

you can build muscle with bodyweight training and also strenght. Bodyweight training builds functional strenght i used to do alot of powerlifting i hadn`t touched a weight in 5 months and i went into a gym a few weeks ago and i can now press 20 kilos more than last time and I have been doing only bodyweight the past while so thats complete ****e.

Remmy

DSACRAWLER wrote: »

BULL**** possibly the most retarded thing i`ve ever heard

you can build muscle with bodyweight training and also strenght bodyweight training builds functional strenght i used to do alot of powerlifting i hadn`t touched a weight in 5 months and i went into a gym a few weeks ago and i can now press 20 kilos more than last time and I have been doing only bodyweight the past while so thats complete ****e.

perhaps it was a bit of a blanket statement but unless you get into difficult movements like weighted pullups or dips your not going to build much in the way of muscle bulk,as was the op's wish.

So ''strength bodyweight training'' builds functional strength?cool!Is strength obtained from freeweights not functional?

Transform

please do not start a 'functional' debate.

Body weights are fine to a point but i would still mix it up a bit with weights especially for the legs

kieran dolan

Charles Bronson the prisoner, he is a tank and strong dude, in 2002, he published a book Solitary Fitness (ISBN 1-902578-12-0), detailing an individual training process with minimal resources and space.

rubadub

Remmy wrote: »

perhaps it was a bit of a blanket statement but unless you get into difficult movements like weighted pullups or dips your not going to build much in the way of muscle bulk,as was the op's wish.

There are plenty of unweighted BW exercises which are incredibly tough. Some gymnasts do very little weighted work, but can be big.


I would highly recommend getting some gymnastic rings.

http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode3/229

How strong is it possible to become with bodyweight exercises? Amazingly strong. In fact I would go so far as to say, done correctly, far stronger than someone who had trained for the same amount of time with free weights. Want some concrete examples? One of my former students, JJ Gregory (1993 Junior National Champion on the Still Rings) developed such a high degree of strength from my bodyweight conditioning program that on his first day in his high school weightlifting class he deadlifted 400lbs., and this at the scale breaking weight of 135 lbs. and a height of 5’3”.

After this I was curious and wanted to measure JJ’s one rep max on weighted pull-ups. We started fairly light with 10 lbs. or so. I continued adding more weight while JJ performed single rep after single rep. Unfortunately I didn’t know about chinning belts and chains at that time and the cheap leather belt we were using broke at 75 lbs. Once again, I repeat, at 75 lbs. and JJ had never performed a weighted pull-up in his life. But he had performed years of my specialized bodyweight conditioning exercises. How much could JJ have chinned that day? We will never know for sure, but I will tell you that at 75 lbs. JJ was laughing and joking with me and did not appear to be noticeably bothered by the weight.

TommyKnocker

Wow, That french gymanst has an amazing upper body physique.

Brad Pitt eat your heart out


Best Regards,

M