"Burak Ilter" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:In article <[email hidden]>, 2larry2@
2maximizesoftware2.com says...
Quoted message said:No. Seriously. Why wouldn't you want to maximize your training
time? Why
fart around with half baked solutions when weights is the most
productive
solution for strength training? You can lift weights without getting
big.
I do know that I can lift weights without getting big and I go to gym
1-
2 times per month. But I do the remaining 7-10 sessions at home using
calisthenics.
I really lack the motivation to go to gym and lift weights there. But,
I
have not found yet any serious alternative to weights for upper body.
The only suggestion from this thread is the "Naked Warrior" which
offers
one-legged squats and one-arm push-ups. I currently can do neither of
course, but they may be worth a shot.
There are, of course, other bodyweight exercises with which you can
build strength, size, or both. Just look at gymnasts, who train without
weights for the most part. It's all about leverage and making the
exercise the right level of difficulty, then following an appropriate
schedule for your goals.
Pullups are easy to do at home - if you have suitable ledge or doorway,
grab on and pull, otherwise get a "door gym" or similar which, for about
$30, lets you do pullups in almost any doorway. A tree branch works
just fine, too. If pullups are too easy, start using one hand plus a
few fingers of the other hand, and work towards a one-armed pullup.
http://www.ringtraining.com offers rings you can take with you - install
them at home, take them to a local playground, whatever works for you.
Wall-supported handstand pushups are another great exercise - when you
can do them all the way to the floor, start working on doing them on a
couple of chairs so you can go even lower.
Get yourself an "ab wheel" for $10 at the local sporting good store and
start working on wheel rollouts, first kneeling and then standing. If
you do these right (see Pavel's "Bullet-Proof Abs",
http://www.kbnj.com/bpa.htm for instruction), you will work a lot of
your body, not just your belly. http://www.kbnj.com/Inverted_Wheel.rm
for yours truly doing this on a slight decline.
Grab the rafters in your basement and start working on pulling yourself
up this way - place a scale beneath your feet and try to get the number
to be as low as you can. Buy yourself a gripper for $20 from
http://www.ironmind.com and start working on your grip.
Or do what I do - get a kettlebell and the Russian Kettlebell Challenge
(http://www.kbnj.com/rkc.htm) and learn how the Russians managed to make
do with very little. The book includes lots of strategies for getting
stronger with a single, fixed weight, and a single kettlebell, while it
will cost you more than a similarly-sized dumbbell, is still the best
bang for the buck you'll get in a home gym, in my opinion. And you can
use the kettlebell with the Naked Warrior moves - hold it while
one-legged squatting to increase the resistance.
The limitation in training without a gym is our imagination, not the
lack of weights.
-S-
http://www.kbnj.com
