A Few Good Body Weight Exercises

Body weight exercises are often overlooked when it comes to a workout routine. Most people incorrectly assume that you have to use weights to get a good workout in. While this might be the case for elite Olympic power lifters, it's not true for everyone.

The good thing about body weight exercises is that you can do them wherever you are at. If you're on the road a lot traveling for work or for pleasure you can do them in a hotel. If you're really adventurous you can even do body weight exercises at the airport or while you're waiting in line. The beauty of them is that you can do them from the safety of your own home or even at the office. The benefit is that you can do them no matter where you are at.

The first body weight exercise that is probably the most popular; is the push up. There are many different ways for you to do a push-up ranging from the standard push-up to inverted push-ups and everything in between. If you have trouble doing a standard push-up than you can get on your knees and do a push-up from there as this makes it easier. You can also stand against the wall and do a wall push-up.

Body weight squats are great way to increase your leg strength. There are also numerous ways to do a body weight squat. Some of the ways you can do the squats are; quarter squats and full squats. The difference between a quarter squats and a full squat is that on a quarter squat you only go a quarter of the way down.

A full squat has you go all the way down so that your quads are parallel to the ground. Make sure that when you do these your knees never go over your toes, this is to ensure they don't put any undue pressure on to your knees.

Sit-ups are other great body weight exercise. The amount of different stomach exercises that you can do are many, so I'll touch on just a few. The most basic stomach exercise is to sit up. However, you can also do crunches, toe touches, V sit ups, and finally leg ups. I would like to make a small note that you can do sit-ups until you're blue in the face and still not have six-pack abs. This is because you'll need to have proper nutrition also with your exercising. Having good genetics never hurts either.