Strength Training Without Weights

Don't have any money or time to use machines or free weights? Don't fret because you can always do strength training without weights!

You want to try strength training without weights? As mentioned earlier, major parts of a strength fitness program is the use of free weights and strength training machines. But sometimes you just have a little bit of time during lunch or you can't afford gym membership or your own private gym. And that's ok, because strength training without weights works too. There are many exercises that can be incorporated into a regular strength training regimen but also ones that can be used on their own to target specific areas of your body.

You can find out about these different strength training without weights exercised in videos, books, classes, or even on the web. What makes these exercises work is resistance rather than weight. In some of these exercises, gravity works as the force that your body is working against. Exercises that incorporate the use of gravity include abdominal crunches, push-ups, chin-ups, lunges, chair dips and squats.

But if you want something else to do when short on money or time, there are many time and space saving devices that can be used in weight-free strength training. One such device is resistance tubing. This multi-use equipment is a tube connected to two handles on the end. It can be used for different exercises like "bench presses", tricep curls, bicep extensions, and knee crunches. There is also a chin-up bar which can b placed in a doorway and used to do chin-ups and pull-ups.

The genius of these devices is that the work-out equipment is rather small, cheap and incredibly easy to use. And there, we also see how strength training without weights can be used for both upper and lower body work-outs.

So be sure to check out our pages about Strength Training Exercises, Weight Loss Training Strength, Strength Training Routines, and High Intensity Strength Training elsewhere on this site.