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Adding Muscle Mass And Muscular Endurance With BodyWeight Exercises!
When it comes to exercise programs, different fitness gurus will have varying opinions on what exercise programs are most beneficial.
This really should be expected. There is no one, single exercise program that fits everyone. So, variations are to be expected. Variations alone, however, are not worthwhile simply because they are different.
The exercises must still be based in realistic principles. While this is a noble sentiment, there are those who simply will not prescribe to it. For example, some insist body weight exercises do not build muscle mass. This is just a flat out inaccuracy.
This is not to say that these individuals speak negatively about body weight exercises. In fact, many of these critics are strong proponents of body weight exercises.
Their disagreements centers on the notion that body weight exercises are primarily for muscular endurance. (Hence, their popularity with athletes).
However, for increasing muscle size, free weights need to be employed. Again, this is only a partially accurate assessment. Body weight exercises most definitely increase muscular endurance IN ADDITION to increasing muscle size. Really, you can't have one without the other!
Where does this inaccuracy come from? In the 1960's, certain body building coaches eliminated barbell squats in favor of body weight squats. The end result was disastrous.
No bodybuilder won any competitions without employing barbells in their squat exercise regiment. This (partially) led to the fallacious assumption that body weight squats do not put on mass.
Well, they most certainly will not put on the enormous amount of mass required to win a Mr. Olympia contest. That is a given. However, the notion that they do not build any mass under any circumstances is absurd on many levels.
Actually, it is an assumption that goes against basic principles of biology!
When you place stress on a muscle, it will grow. If you perform high reps of body weights, stress and resistance will be placed on the muscles. (Resistance comes from gravity pulling on your body weight).
Of course, adding a 200lb barbell will increase resistance and expand muscle growth beyond what body weight exercise alone can provide. However, to assume that bodyweight exercises will have no effect on muscle growth is just flat out inaccurate.
In terms of functionality, in our opinion muscular endurance is a superior type of strength. By developing your muscular endurance using bodyweight exercises you will become lean, toned and have a much greater control over your body.
As opposed to the bulked up body builder who struggles with chin ups, or any other type of exercise that challenges his endurance.
In a nutshell for the real life athlete, bodyweight exercises are by far the most appropriate type of training ever devised. Ask Daniel Craig, aka James Bond, Michael Jordan or Pretty Boy Floyd Mayweather.
About the Author Bodyweight exercises are the holy grail of effective and fast strength and fitness training.
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