Exercise Without Use Of Weights
Posted in Exercise on October 26th, 2011 by PauloWe mostly associate weight lifting with exercise and sometimes view exercise as only weight lifting. But it doesn’t mean you have to lift heavy weights all the time. Getting stronger and faster is something we would want. Most of us think that it is only through lifting weights taht you can achieve this goal but you can always gain that through other means of of exercise. Here are some tips You can follow.
Push ups can be an example of an exercise that can build your muscles without lifting weights. This is a body weight exercise that strenghten your chest and arms. Body weight exercise use your won weight to help build muscles and they are weights-free. Pull ups can also be done. There are three forms of push ups you can do and they are the regular one, the wide push ups and the inclined push up. Next, you can try lunges to strenghthen your lower extremity muscles without the use of weights. This is another form of body weight exercise. Other exercises for leg muscles can be calf raises, leg raises and squats. Make sure you perform the lunges and squats on a straight back as you can be prone to back injury.
Body weight exercise can also be used to streghthen your core muscles and abs. Examples of them are sit ups, crunches, bicycle crunches and the reverse crunch. Make sure you exercise every area of your abdomen and avoid targeting just one. Warm ups are very important whenever you do any exercises so also involve them in your activities. Warm ups can help loosen your already tight and inflexible muscles. It should be done on whatever form of exercise and should be done for the first five minutes. Once you’ve done so, you can start doing it faster.
You can also do interval training. This is the alternating of short and fast bursts of speed with a recovery period that you can while performing your exercises. A good example would be to run on a slow pace for four minutes and sprint for one minute if you are doing running exercises for 30 minutes. This is fairly easy to do. Lastly, sleep within the recommended hours to help your muscles rest and recover so they can get stonger. You regain your strenght and speed every time. Make sure you sleep eight hours every night which the recommended time for recovery for your muscles and enough time to replenish your energy. These are simple ways you can follow to strenghten your muscles without having to weight lift.