Benefits of Body Weight Exercises! 1. Better mind-body awareness is achieved through bodyweight exercises, because they require that you focus on the minute movements of your body. 2. Many people experience improved agility, speed and functional strength by doing bodyweight exercises. Exercises like lunges, squat jumps and pull ups help build functional muscles that transfer over to real life activities like running, jumping and climbing much better than doing weight lifting exercises like leg extensions, bench press and bicep curls. 3. More muscles are activated during the bodyweight exercise. Consider the idea of laying on a bench to bench-press heavy weight: in this position your chest and arms are doing all the work, because the rest of your body is supported by the bench. Pushup works similar muscles in the chest and arms, but you also need to engage your core and other muscles in order to hold yourself off the ground. youtube/watch?v=POdzasJklxw
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 08:45:12 +0000
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