Workout Without Weights

Hey what’s up. So here we go with my second workout without weights post.

So like I said, the more I thought about it, the more going to a gym and pushing some piece of iron up and down seemed like such a meathead thing to do (sorry if I’ve insulted anyone, hehe… but hey I used to do the same thing).

Think back to say before the 1950’s (I don’t know when exactly man started doing traditional workouts, but I think it was somewhere around that time). Did people get fit and muscular by doing bench presses and bicep curls? Did the Greeks in 300 BC get their “Greek God” bodies by doing these types of workouts? Of course not! They got sculpted and ripped, and got “real-world” strength by getting a REAL full body workout. And think these guys weren’t ripped and cut? Go check out any museum with sculptures from the time period… those are some RIPPED guys with some damn incredible bodies. The term “Greek God” is used to describe a certain body type for a reason.

You know what really set me off though? When I started reading about the “300 workout”. You know the movie 300 (yes… coincidentally they were portraying Greeks, hehe)? Ya… well the workouts those guys did to get in shape for the movie. Guess what? Most definitely NOT a typical gym workout, or anything resembling one. No… these guys implemented some old fashioned hardcore workout exercises… and lots of workouts without weights and exercises without weights. They implemented some very unconventional exercises… exercises which would isolate all those little stabilizing muscles you have… exercises which would get muscle groups working in unison… like they do in the REAL WORLD.

What’s so funny about this too is that after the movie came out, everyone wanted a body like the 300 guys. This was seen as an ideal body type to many, and it was done WITHOUT the typical gym workout that most people do.

People underestimate the good old pushup or chinup… these are not useless exercises… and there are MANY variations of each you can incorporate into your workouts without weights.

Am I saying just do pushups and chinups? Of course not… you have WAY more options than you may think you do… and you can get ripped and get practical real world strength at the same time.

That does it for this post… stay tuned for more of my workout without weights blog!