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Bodybuilding Without Weights

Bodybuilding without weights is possible, despite the fact that most workouts and programs available on the Internet involve weight training.

The reason that bodybuilding without weights is possible is because you can still stimulate the muscle fibres without needing to lift weights at the gym. Bodyweight exercises are a great way to achieve this.

Bodybuilding without weights might not achieve results as fast as bodybuilding with weights would, but you should still see good results.

The reason that lifting weights encourages fast muscle growth is that it is easy for you to progressively raise the weight each week to increase strength and growth. It is harder to keep track of this progression when not using weights.

But you can still gradually increase the intensity of bodyweight workouts to work your muscles harder each week and thus causing increased strength and size.

In order to build muscle without weights using bodyweight exercises, it is important to increase the intensity of each exercise for muscle building purposes.

Just doing 3 sets of 20 reps of a standard bodyweight exercises such as a push-up is not going to result in muscle gain. Only increased endurance.

 You need to adapt the bodyweight exercises for specific muscle growth puproses.

 Bodybuilding Without Weights – Exercise Examples

So if you want to, for example, build up chest muscles with bodyweight exercises you can peform a more complex versions of the push-up:

Example: Push-ups using chairs

Get hold of 3 chairs and arrange them in a triangle. Put your feet on one of the chairs and one hand on each of the other chairs.

By peforming a push-up when elevated by these chairs, you will be able to get a greater muscle stretch during the exercise, which will stimulate the muscle fibres more than a regular push-up.

Example: Chin-ups for biceps

If you want to build biceps without weights then you can perform chin-ups using a door frame. To increase the resistance you can attach make shift weights to your back/ankles.

Another interesting way to build biceps without weights is to fill an empty milk-jug with water and use that as your equivalent of a dumbell.

Example: Dips for triceps

To build triceps without weights you can perform tricep dips using chairs. Get 2 chairs, place you feet on one of them and you hands (behind your back) on another.

Tricep dips on chairs will give your muscle a good stretch (as with push-ups on chairs). To make the exercises harder, do each rep slower and place books in your lap to increase the resistance.

Bodybuilding Without Weights Summary

In summary, yes, bodybuilding without weights is possible and you can still gain muscle this way.

Bodyweight exercises that are specific to muscle gain are required. In addition to this, you can create your own make shift-weights (filling milk-jugs with water, placing books on your back etc.).

The important thing is to work your muscles hard. Stimulate those muscle fibres to cause muscle growth.

It is not about lifting heavy weights, it is about working the muscles as hard as possible. This can be done without equipment.