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Pull up bar alternatives
Your choice of a pull up bar will very much depend on the set up of the house or flat you live in. For most people, this will mean a doorway pull up bar. However, wall-mounted, joist mounted, or...
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Dip bars alternatives
A dip station or dip bars will allow you to follow the later stages of the dip progression.The one pictured here folds flat and locks for under-bed storage and makes an ideal home station. It is...
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Announcing the launch of StartBodyweight.com
StartBodyweight.com launches today and it has been an exciting journey!The website offers a free strength training program based on bodyweight progressions which I have been testing and refining...
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Start Bodyweight now has its own page and support group on Fitocracy, the fitness social network.Join Fitocracy HEREOr go to the Start Bodyweight group page to join. Also, keep updated about new...
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Flexibility for deep squats and one legged squats
picture by trokilinochchiSquatting down with both feet firmly on the ground (not on the balls of our feet) is a basic, everyday human posture which an increasingly large number of us, particularly in...
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There is now a Start Bodyweight team on SparkPeople.For those you who are already on SparkPeople or if you are interested in a busy diet and fitness social network, you can join the team...
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The crow stand
The crow stand (a.k.a. the frog stand) is a classic pose found in yoga. It is usually performed to develop hand balancing skills, and -in gymnastics- and as a building block towards the unsupported...
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Elbow levers
Double elbow levers are essentially a hand balancing skill where the body is held horizontal to the ground supported by your elbows. The exercise will challenge your core and...
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L-sit
The L-sit (a.k.a. floor L-sit) is a core exercise which places quite a lot of stress not only on your core muscles, but also -isometrically- on your hip flexors and on your triceps. It is a good idea...
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Dragon flags
Dragon flags are an old Bruce Lee favorite which target the core muscles, but also can be quite taxing on the lats, triceps and forearms, depending on how you hold the bench.This progression will show...
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Back levers
Back levers involve the posterior chain, the core muscles, and the shoulder flexors (particularly the anterior deltoids). They are an intermediate bodyweight exercise which can be performed on rings,...
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Muscle up progression
I am not very naturally explosive at all, and it took me a long time to manage my first bar muscle up.Though deceptively simple, the muscle up is quite a complex skill, involving two main compound...
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Ab wheel rollouts
Ab wheel rollouts provide a great core workout with the use of a simple device: the ab wheel. Though the exercise may look deceptively easy, performing ab wheel rollouts from your feet is a challenge...
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Handstands
One of the main aims of many of those who come to bodyweight training is to learn how to do a handstand.A solid freestanding handstand is by no means an easy feat however, and it will require many...
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Basic routine infographic poster
To download the Start Bodyweight basic routine infographic, with all 8 bodyweight progressions and an overview of the routine, click here.You can also download the PDF version here.Finally, you can...
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Twelve principles of bodyweight training
1. Master your bodyIt’s not about how much you can lift, but whether you can move and control your own bodyweight in the first place.2. Progressive overload does not discriminate. It does not matter if...
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Get lean with bodyweight exercises
This is the story of this site’s banner: the story of an article that was never written. And it all started with my cat!I must confess, I have limited amounts of energy: I let work get the better of me...
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Embodied knowledge and bodyweight training
Long Jump, 1887, Eadweard MuybridgeAs I walked down the street, the stranger nodded at me almost at the same time as I nodded back. There was a moment of instant recognition, the way riders usually...
View ArticleStart Bodyweight on reddit
I have been finding it increasingly difficult to answer all the questions asked through this website, as well as the facebook group and my personal messages.I decided to create a subreddit, as a forum...
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Weights vs bodyweight exercises
Here are a few questions I see cropping up time and time again, and I hope this article will help settle them once and for all:- How does weight training compare to bodyweight exercises? - Is...
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Front planche on a rope
When my circus and aerial skills instructor showed this technique to me, she called it a 'front planche on a rope'. The name seems a little misguiding to me -and I am not sure it is even the common...
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Make a donation to the startbodyweight programme
It has now been 4 years since I launched StartBodyweight.com as a free online resource for the bodyweight strength training community.Thank you to those of you who have helped shape the programme into...
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Movement manifesto
Our bodies are 200,000 years old. Genetically, physiologically, anatomically, we are undistinguishable from the first Homo Sapiens ever to have walked the earth.Among the animal kingdom we are almost...
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