Continue from 7 advantages of body weight exercises, today numbers 3 and 4... 3.) Natural Fat Regulation Every ounce counts when you step into the world of progressive calisthenics. Any excess body fat will make exercises more difficult and advanced movements impossible until you get to a certain strength-to-weight ratio. Your brain understands this and naturally tries to adapt to the challenge. Its job is to make movement as efficient as possible which means to lose excess weight and gain more strength. This is the reason why calisthenics training produces such lean athletes that also possess such a high level of strength-to-weight ratio (i.e. gymnasts and martial artists). Training with external resistance can often produce the opposite results. You can easily move more weight without becoming stronger when it comes to weight lifting. Putting on excess weight can limit the range of motion or lower your center of gravity allowing you to technically move heavier weight without getting any stronger. Picture the typical gym rat that seems to be stuck in bulk mode all year round. Body weight exercises naturally regulates bodyweight as you progress. 4.) Full-Body Strength Calisthenics training works the body in the manner nature intended. Much like with nutrition, we are rewarded when we stick to our genetic script. Your body evolved to work as a whole, synergistically using integrated units to produce the most efficient movement possible. This includes skeletal muscle, tendons, joints, and even the nervous system. Modern-weight training often breaks this format up and trains the body in small muscular segments. This strays away from the way you are built to move and can result in injury and/or disproportionate strength. Calisthenics moves your body through various planes of motion in a compound fashion. It also strengthens the various levels of the body that are in charge of movement from muscle to tendons. This is the way you were meant to move and is the reason why calisthenics/ body weight training can build such impressive levels of strength without the need for external equipment. PrimalForme is bring the art of body weight exercises back to you, get PRIMED! Instagram: instagram/primalforme
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:02:58 +0000