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Workout Programs For Fitness - Jideon F Marques
Part 1
OVERVIEW
SUSPENDED BODYWEIGHT TRAINING: TAKING YOUR PERFORMANCE TO THE NEXT
LEVEL
Every few years there seems to be a new fitness gadget in the gym that catches people’s eyes. One of the more interesting ones to have come along is the suspended bodyweight trainer. Brands like TRX and Lifeline have reignited suspended bodyweight training, taking old-school
exercises that were originally only done on rings by gymnasts and making them new school.
There’s a reason that almost every gym in America has added suspended bodyweight trainers. Suspended bodyweight training is both fun AND helpful. It turns stale exercises into challenging ones that will help rip your core. Even people who have no idea what they’re doing can try one out and feel the burn in their abs and glutes. Just imagine what a little instruction and training can do!
If you’re looking to learn more about suspended bodyweight training to enhance your exercise repertoire, you’ve come to the right place. This book will serve as a guide to using devices like the TRX, rings, and other suspended bodyweight straps and will
provide examples and explanations of exercises that will help build strength, stability, and flexibility for personal benefit, as well as for a variety of sports.
Suspended bodyweight exercise is the cornerstone of many modern training programs for professional athletes in virtually every sport imaginable, including football, baseball, basketball, combat sports, triathlon, and swimming. Athletic programs worldwide use suspended bodyweight training to supplement their strength and conditioning routines, and with good reason — suspended bodyweight training is unique in that it challenges the stability of the performer, allowing you to improve your function through neuro-reeducation. By learning how to automatically stabilize your core, your apparent strength will surpass your previous plateaus. You’ll become stronger and more toned, with a better overall build.
What’s amazing about suspended bodyweight training is that anyone can do it. As a trainer for collegiate and professional athletes, I’ve used it to help give athletes more core feedback. As a physical therapist, I’ve used it to help make exercises easier for rehabilitating patients. Essentially, suspended bodyweight training allows you to instantly adjust an exercise’s difficulty to whatever is most appropriate for your fitness level, whether you’re a baby boomer who just wants to get up and down the stairs without pain or a college student who’s working toward bulging biceps.
To give you a more meaningful workout, this book will help you understand basic exercise concepts. As an educator and a doctor of physical therapy, I try to make sure all of my patients know why they’re doing something so that they can protect themselves from injury in the long run. By knowing and learning about suspended bodyweight training, you’ll not only be able to ramp up the exercises as you progress, you’ll also be able to modify them to fit your needs. With this book’s easy-to-follow workouts and exercises with step-by-step instructions, you’ll get not only what everyone wants, but what your trainer and physical therapist say you need: toned muscles, a strong core, flexibility, and, most importantly, a fun and challenging workout.
SO WHAT REALLY MAKES SUSPENDED BODYWEIGHT TRAINING DIFFERENT?
I’m one of the biggest cynics there is. Being in the fitness and health industry, I’m bombarded with the newest, craziest fads you can think of: supplements that will help you get ripped with minimal effort, diets that promise to make you as fit as a caveman, vibration plates that will shake your fat off, electrodes that will let you work out while you sleep, and even magic bracelets that claim to align your energy. Hey, if it works for you, that’s great, but I don’t want to waste my time with something that doesn’t make sense and especially something that doesn’t work better than the placebo effect.
What’s the placebo effect? It’s is when you believe something works — you’ll have a psychological feeling that it’s actually working, even if what you took (sugar pill, magic bean, etc.) was a total sham. I want something that really does work. I want something that has been proven with science to work. Not only that, I want something that I can
feel working immediately. That’s when I’ll stick to it. With suspended bodyweight training, not only will you see results immediately or within the first few weeks, you’ll continue to see gains in your training as you progress because of the amazing amount of flexibility and variability that you’ll achieve.
When I first started using a suspended bodyweight trainer, it was just another toy. Ok, cool, I can do this exercise and that one…not bad. But the more I used it and the more familiar with it I became, I was able to do new exercises that worked my body like I had never felt before. My old workouts were like my first car: cheap but practical, and took me where I wanted to go. Adding suspended bodyweight training to my workout was like my dad giving me the keys to his brand-new BMW and saying, Go crazy, son!
Now, all of a sudden, the good old push-up became a challenge again. I was able to add a ton of variety to my workouts, which not only made them a lot more fun, but worked my core at the same time. I guarantee that if you do the prone plank and jack knife exercise with a suspended bodyweight trainer, you’ll feel your abs shredding and your fat burning in less time than it took you to read this paragraph.
Still skeptical? Find any certified exercise physiologist or your physical therapist and ask them about the importance of building a strong core and stability training. Read up on scientific journals that pick apart everything. While scientists can’t agree 100
percent on global warming, all health practitioners agree that you need a strong core, which is key for decreasing lower-back pain and boosting sports performance.
WHAT’S SUSPENDED BODYWEIGHT TRAINING?
Suspended bodyweight training is a way of using your bodyweight and gravity as the primary load for resistance. This means that you’ll get all the resistance you’ll need from your body alone. The beauty of suspended bodyweight training is that it can make your normal exercises both easier and harder. At its easiest settings, a suspended bodyweight trainer will make it easier to perform basic movements such as a squat. Can’t do one push-up? No problem — use the suspended bodyweight trainer to take off 50 percent of your weight. Want to do 100 push-ups? Use the suspended bodyweight trainer to increase your