Bodyweight Training and Beyond: Part 3 Upper Body Training Lessons and Workouts for Advanced Bodyweight Practitioners and Martial Artists In November, I wrote a couple of essays with the titles “Bodyweight Training and Beyond.” Part 1 focused only on bodyweight training. Part 2 discussed how to incorporate bodyweight training combined with weighted workouts. I originally had planned to write a 3rd part within a week or two of the previous essays, but I wound up writing so many different articles that the 3rd part went by the wayside. However, as I was writing my last essay on bodyweight training, “ A Seldom Discussed Benefit of Bodyweight Training ,” I ended up with a lot of notes that I realized would make for another good article. So, it’s been too long in coming, but here, finally, is Part 3 of my Bodyweight Training and Beyond series. In this essay, I want to discuss some various bodyweight ideas f...
A Not-Thought-Of, Often Not-Used Benefit of Bodyweight Workouts and/or Home Training There are some real benefits to bodyweight training. You don’t need a gym membership. You can train no matter where you are or at any time, day or night, since you take your “gym” with you at all times. You can train more often—a real plus in my book—since you don’t have to make that trip to the gym that might prevent you from otherwise training. You can train more as in more days per week or more workouts per day. Doing double-split, or even triple-split, daily workouts are viable for the same reason. It’s just hard for most people with any kind of “normal” life—family, spouse, kids, job—to make it to the gym more than once per day. You also don’t have to wait in line for equipment or put up with any of the other annoyances I always found when training in a commercial gym. Most of the benefits of bodyw...