One Sunday morning back in May, I was driving home from the gym in my hometown of Stratford (while visiting my parents), and I saw an old friend out for her Sunday morning run.
I stopped her to see how her Turbulence Training workouts were going...and she couldn't say enough about the February Circuit Workout I had put together last winter.
"It was the first program that ever changed my body," she said.
And this was coming from a girl who was already smoking hot and had been working out for years. So it was great to hear that the TT workouts were able to take her to the next level.
In fact, her feedback was one of the main reasons that I put together the Big 5 Fat Loss Circuit Workout and the June 30-Minute Bodyweight Circuit.
Bodyweight circuits are tough to beat. They are so convenient and effective at helping you build a lean, sculpted body, that its hard to justify the daily drive to the gym where you pay big bucks for your monthly membership.
In fact, on a recent fitness internet radio interview, I argued that overall, bodyweight circuit training was the BEST form of exercise.
Here are 5 reasons why bodyweight training is the best overall type of exercise you can do to burn fat and sculpt your body.
1) Bodyweight training is a hybrid of strength training and interval training.
Put a bunch of bodyweight exercises into a circuit, like I did with the June workout, and you'll burn fat and sculpt your body fast.
2) Bodyweight training increases "fitness/stamina/endurance" - or whatever you want to call it.
This is great for athletes, fighters, fitness competitors, and even for folks that just love doing handy work around the house.
3) Bodyweight training increases strength and can build muscle if that's what you are after.
You just have to choose the hardest exercises, like Pistols, pullups, bodyweight rows, decline close-grip pushups, and chinups.
4) Bodyweight exercises can carve out a set of six pack abs while keeping your low back safe.
I'm not a big fan of abdominal machines found in most commercial gyms. And neither is the world's expert on low back pain - Dr. Stuart McGill - who I once visited in his lab.
He showed me over a dozen bodyweight exercises for the abs and low-back muscles that build a six pack but don't hurt your back, like crunches and sit-ups will do.
5) Bodyweight exercises work your mobility.
We aren't meant to do the same things over and over again. I know that you'd get more fat burning, bodysculpting results by doing bodyweight circuits rather than intervals or worse, cardio, on one of the Elliptical machine contraptions.
Plus, your body will move better when you do a variety of exercises, rather than risking overuse injuries doing the same movement thousands of times in the same workout.
Bodyweight training is simple, fun, fast, and effective.
Give the June TT Workout - The Bodyweight 30-Minute Circuit Challenge - a try and let us know how many reps you can do.
Post your score in the TT Member's Training Forum,
Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Author, Home Fitness Workouts
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