We have spoken a lot about body-weight training in recent weeks as it’s very easy to get into. However, body-weight training does require a significant amount of self-awareness when it comes to making sure you are doing it properly and getting the most benefit out of it. Let's have a quick recap of body-weight training. Body-weight fitness is a form of exercise that uses your own body weight as resistance.
It has been shown to be effective in improving muscular strength, endurance, fat loss, and bone density.
This type of training has also been shown to improve balance, coordination, agility, and flexibility.
It can also be used to create a variety of fitness regimes for any person with any fitness goals.
What is the issue with overly rigid body weight training?
Strenuous and inflexible body weight training can cause the muscles to shorten and tighten, which can lead to injury.
Body weight training is a great way to build muscles and increase flexibility. Flexibility is important for preventing injuries because it helps the body maintain a healthy alignment of the joints.
A lack of flexibility can also lead to stiffness, which often leads to pain.
The goal of body weight training should be to increase strength without overtightening the muscles, while gaining flexibility in other areas that may require it.
Why is flexibility important for your body-weight fitness goals?
Stretching improves flexibility and can provide many benefits to your body-weight fitness goals. Flexibility training helps with injury prevention, muscle soreness relief, improvement of range of motion, and increases strength to better assist you with workouts.
What can you do?
To improve your mobility, there are a few different things that you should be doing on a regular basis: stretching after workouts while still warm, daily stretching routines for runners (to help prevent injuries), and plyometrics (to increase muscle power). We’ll be exploring more about these in future posts, so make sure you keep an eye out.
What are the benefits of greater flexibility in your workout routine?
Being flexible is one of the most important features of a healthy body. It allows for movement and it helps in the development of strong muscles, ligaments, and bones.
Clients that are suffering from chronic pain can use exercises that promote greater flexibility to help them be more active.
For people who are dealing with certain health conditions, exercises that promote greater flexibility are also important because they can increase blood flow to the affected area, which can help promote healing.
Consider greater flexibility in your workouts.
In today's busy world, many people find it difficult to find time to work out. This is a problem for those who are looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle and avoid weight gain. So what can you do?
Begin your work out at home with some simple body-weight exercises. These exercises can be done from the comfort of your living room without the need for any equipment. There are many benefits to using body weight exercises as opposed to equipment-based exercise machines. What are some of your favourite body-weight training exercises?