Benefits of Bodyweight Workouts

by Genista Bodyweight workouts (meaning workouts done without machines or weights) have many advantages over other forms of exercise that is unknown to most people. To the ignorant, bodyweight exercises like push-ups etc are old-dated. Why do exercises like this when the local gym has equipment available for you? Surely these modern machines must offer a more advanced workout and be more effective? Surprisingly, the truth of the matter is, however, they don t. I will explain why as followings.   Whether you are weight lifting in a gym or using a machine, you are typically isolating the muscles in order to perform the exercise. This is unnatural, as the human body has evolved with all of the muscles working together all of the time. When you train them separately, you run the risk of having one muscle group becoming proportionally stronger than another group. When they are forced to work together in the real world, you run the risk of injury. This is why a bodybuilder s body typically
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