The fitness industry wants you to believe that you need an endless range of equipment to reach your workout goals.
They try to convince you that you will not be able to achieve that high level of fitness you always wanted without using treadmills, elliptical trainers, chest press machines, leg curl machines and other contraptions.
--DO NOT believe it!- It is possible to reach your fitness goals with nothing but your own bodyweight! Body weight exercises can help you build strength, muscle mass, endurance, cardio health, promote fat loss while protecting you from injuries.
With bodyweight exercises, you prime your nervous system to increase freedom of movement and assimilate new skills more rapidly.
Variety of exercises is enormous - not just the usual push-ups and sit-ups, that get boring quickly.
What many people don't realize is that the most important indicator of true strength is how you can handle your own body weight.
Because exercise machines do all the stabilizing work for you, your muscles get stronger, but your body doesn't learn to do that stabilizing work for itself.
So guess what happens when you fall down or dive for that fly ball? You get hurt because your body does not know how to move to handle the situation correctly.
Body weight training will help protect your body from such injuries! I too believed that you have to go to the gym, or at least have a home gym in your garage or basement to be able to get a proper workout.
I was very skeptical at first - I thought that this kind of workout may be boring and not challenging enough.
But training with your own body weight can be as easy or as challenging as you desire - it is suitable for people of all fitness levels.
It is also much safer than most of the exercise equipment out there.
PLUS, it gives you flexibility to train ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, on your own schedule.
And best of...
all it can be lots of FUN!