Fitness Without Equipment

Fitness Without Equipment
In this day and age most of us who want to get fitter,
stronger, or lose weight know that in order to achieve our
goals we must participate in some type of exercise program.
One of the problems is that of choosing what sort of
fitness equipment we should be using or buying. There are a
number of choices on the market today, including elliptical
trainers, rowing machines, exercise bicycles, steppers,
weight machines, free weights, cable machines, and so on.

Now you have two choices when it comes to using fitness
equipment. First is to purchase a piece of equipment,
depending on the quality of what you want, buying can be
pretty expensive. The second choice is to become a gym
member. This will give you a wider of choice in the types
of fitness equipment you can use, but even this option can
be expensive.

Now there can be many reasons that could make it difficult
for you to take advantage of either choice. Perhaps you are
in a position in your life at the moment where you cannot
afford to purchase any fitness equipment or afford to join
a gym. You may not have any space at home to use any
fitness equipment, or have the time to travel to a gym 3 or
4 times a week. You may feel uncomfortable or not have the
confidence at the present time to join a gym. All these
reasons will result in one thing, and that is not
exercising, and not achieving the vision you may have of
yourself for the future.

Now I am going to be brutally honest with you. All those
reasons are just excuses not to exercise. You justify not
exercising with these excuses and this makes you feel that
there is some substance behind why you cannot exercise. The
fact is that there is no substance behind these excuses,
because when you focus on why you can't do something your
mind will come up with lots of reasons for that point of
focus. However if you focus on a regular basis on why you
should exercise, your mind will come up with reasons and
ways for that as well. You can reach extreme levels of
fitness without equipment.

The truth is that we associate great bodies with fitness
equipment and we have the perception that fitness without
any equipment is not something that can be achieved
successfully. This is a million miles away from the truth.
You don't need any fitness equipment to become fitter,
stronger, or slimmer. Your own body is one of the best
pieces of fitness equipment that you have. You can reach
extremely high levels of fitness using nothing but your
body.

Take a look at the sport of boxing. It is only over the
last few years that boxers have started using weights or
weight machines to train. A few years ago 99% of their
training consisted of using their own body for their
training. Boxers would get up in the early hours and run
the streets, not use a treadmill at lunch time. They would
spend many hours a week doing push ups, sit ups, chin ups,
stretching, shadow boxing, and a whole host of other body
weight exercises. Boxers are warriors and they reach
warrior status without any equipment. Boxers have the
fittest and most durable physiques in sport.

To become a soldier is no mean feat, the training is
extremely tough. The bulk of a soldiers training consists
of exercising without equipment. They spend hours running
over rough terrain carrying equipment and heavy backpacks.
They spend months doing circuit training consisting of
swimming, push ups, chin ups, sit ups, and various other
exercises. Nobody can say that a soldier is not an
extremely fit individual.

There is a huge choice of exercises you can use, where your
body is the only piece of equipment you will need.
Depending on the method of training you use, just 15
minutes a day will give you fitness levels far beyond what
you have at the moment. Pick a set of exercises that hit
different body parts and make a circuit out of them.
Circuit training will improve your strength, fitness, and
endurance. Pick your own circuit or use the one below

Free squats (30 seconds) Rest (20 seconds) Push ups (30
seconds) Rest (20seconds) Crunches (30 seconds) Rest (20
seconds) Squat thrusts (30 seconds)

This circuit last just 3 minutes and it will work your body
hard. Do as many actions of each exercise in a 30 second
period and do not have any more than 20 seconds rest. Try
it once and see how you feel. Call this one circuit, and
when your fitness improves do another circuit later in the
day. There really is no limit to how far you can go on this
circuit, the fitter you get the more circuits you keep
adding. Just try one to begin with to get used to it and
think on that one circuit is just 3 minutes out of your
whole day. 3 minutes is not a lot compared to the benefits
you will get from that time. Now you know that you are
capable of reaching a high level of fitness without
equipment.

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