Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex by Marcus Aubrey

Author:Marcus, Aubrey [Marcus, Aubrey]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2018-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

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The Tools of the Trade

BODY WEIGHT

HISTORY

Body-weight exercises have gone by another name for millennia: calisthenics, an ancient Greek word that translates roughly to “move your ass already” and describes the discipline of using your body’s weight as a way to develop strength, stamina, and your overall physique. Calisthenics used to be a huge part of physical fitness, especially for women, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and remains a key part of physical training in the military.

ADVANTAGES

Body-weight exercises are inherently joint friendly and safe because the loads you lift (your body parts) are never more than you can normally stabilize. They are also crazy convenient and practical, since you need very little space to do them in and you don’t need a gym to scale them up or down in difficulty. Whereas with weight training, you need to add weight to progress, body-weight movements can be progressed and regressed as necessary by simply changing the angle of your body. Pushups can be done with hands on an incline to make them easier or with feet on an incline to make them harder. Leg exercises can be done with both or one limb at a time. Tools like the suspension trainer make this easier, but all the basic exercises can be done and modified with body weight alone.

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