How to Build Muscle Without Using Dumbbells
It is pretty easy and effective to build muscle without weights if you can think outside of the box. It is quite funny how many people believe that it takes weights to build impressive amounts of muscle. But in the back few years, the fitness industry has had a revival of body weight training. Not only is it possible to build muscle without weights, there are groups of people more impressive physiques than what you find in the typical gym environment.
No Need for Weights, And You Can Still Have That Great Body
If you’ve been tuning into the Summer Olympics, then you have seen the male gymnasts. Are there any better bodies out there? These guys are ripped and lean and their bodies are incredibly strong. They don’t spend hours lifting weights. All their training is body weight resistance. Not only do they have large muscles, they have incredible muscle definition. Excess body fat will melt away as one uses their own weight as resistance, no need for free weights at all. Exercises are always harder to do when a person is carrying extra weight.
Can I get really big if I don’t use weights?
True, the men in the body building contests do lift free weights. And if that’s your aim, then trying to build muscle without weights is not for you. But for most of us, that’s not what we want to see. That overly worked look was the in-thing for a while, but went out of style once the 90s came around. People realized how unnatural and unhealthy this look was. It pays to be maintain a medium body weight with exceptional muscle tone. Once you put on too much muscle your strength to weight body ratio goes down dramatically. A gymnast is much stronger pound for pound than a bodybuilder.
In Order to Gain Muscle You Must Be Successful at One Arm and One Leg Exercises
To really progress using body weight exercise it pays to add resistance or simply make an exercise more challenging on the muscles being worked. You can pick up a weighted backpack to do your push ups. Or tie on a weight belt to make it more challenging and increase your resistance. But what will work even better is doing your push ups using only one arm. Try chin ups with only one arm. Do one legged squats. The less equipment you use is to your advantage.
All you need are 4-5 body weight exercises to build muscle without weights
Becoming proficient at hanging leg raises and pistol squats, along with the one armed chin up and push up will give you that incredible body you desire. After you master these basic lifts maybe work on mastering hand stand push ups. Once you can do these with ease, you will know that you can building muscle without weights. Your body will reflect all your body weight resistance work.
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