Workout Without Weights

Hey guys, and welcome to my blog!

My name’s Steve, and I created this blog to talk about working out and how to workout without weights… how I think it’s a far superior alternative to typical gym membership, and where you can find some great “workout without weights” exercises.

How’d I get into this stuff? Well I used to be big on the gym. I wasn’t a gym rat, but I went regularly to keep in shape and to try to sculpt out my body to how I wanted it to look. My results were ok… but one thing I absolutely hated were the tedious workouts I’d do. My chest workout would consist of some bench press and butterflies… well what’s that essentially? Pushing a weight up and down… over and over… up and down, up and down. Chest workout… bicep workout… back workout… my whole workout routine… all the same tedious stuff… I hated it.

I soon started to lose motivation to go to the gym because I’d just dread the tedious workouts. Moreover I started to learn about fitness started to question all this boring crap I was doing? How good was my chest workout and my bicep workout for me really? Sure I was building muscle, but was it USEFUL muscle? The more I learned, the more I knew there was a better way to workout.

You see when you do a chest workout like bench press, you’re isolating some very specific muscles to lift that bar up and down… you’re not using many of your stabilizing muscles, and you’re not using many different muscle groups at the same time… you’re isolating your chest and some arm muscles. What you’re doing essentially is creating a giant slab of muscle which doesn’t translate very well to real world applications. In real life you DO use many stabilizing muscle when lifting or moving things… you do use different muscle groups together… it’s not just up and down up and down along one plane of motion.

Alrighty guys… that doesit for my first blog post. Hope you enjoyed it and got something useful out of it. Stay tuned and let me tell you where you can get some great workout exercises without weights AND workout at home without weights… AND build real world strength… not giant slabs of useless (well not completely useless) muscle.