Strength without weights

Strengthen your body without weight lifting

Do you believe you can strengthen your body without a gym membership, dumbbells, barbells and expensive cardio machines? If yes, you are not in a majority. Even now in 2013, a lot of people believe you can only get strong through rigorous weight lifting, which is simply not true. Not everyone has the time to train in a gym on regular basis, so adding different type of exercises to your workout routine makes sense even if you are regular gym member - who knows; maybe you'll change your mind after reading this article!

Home Workouts

Not everyone enjoy working out from home, but most body weight exercises can be done in a comfort of your home. This type of training provides many great benefits:

You can do it whenever you want
Bye Bye to queues to use weights or machines!
Total Privacy (which means you can make any facial expressions you want!)
It gives you better training environment without distractions
Did I mention you can do it whenever you want without the need to travel to a gym or PAY for it?

I can go on and on as there are so many reasons why working out from home is good for you. But let's get to the point and check out a couple of exercises you can do to improve the way your body looks - at home.

Burpees

Most of us will remember burpees from a school. What you need to do is to get in the squat with your hands on the ground and then get into a push-up position after kicking your feet back. After you've done a push-up, get back in the squat position and jump as high as you can. Get back in the squat position and repeat the process.

This is one of the best conditioning exercises I've came across and it's perfect for those who are trying to tone their muscles or just lose some weight. If you've never done them, start with 50 burpees and try to work your way up to a hundred.

Push-ups

For upper body strength, push-ups are probably one of the best exercises along with pull-ups. Push-ups will help you to strengthen your arms, chest, shoulders and core - all at once. This body weight workout provides best benefits if you gradually increase the number of push-ups you can do. After you've come to the point where you can do more than 40 push-ups at once, make it harder by putting your feet on a bench and hands on the ground.

Pull-ups

The most effective way to work on your upper back muscles is a pull-up. If you've ever tried lat pulldown machine, you'll probably know how to do a pull-up, but there is a huge difference between these two exercises. Primarily, pull-up is much harder (it doesn't mean you'll be able to do a full range pull-up if you can lift your body weight on the lat machine).

This amazing exercise will strengthen your shoulders, back, arms and core. Much like a push-up, but more effective. Keep in mind that your palms should be facing away from you in a pull-up. If they are facing the other way around, you are actually doing chin-ups - which are primarily working your biceps.