Get Creative! Strength Training Without Weight Is Practical Stuff!Strength Training without Weight, Possible? It's possible. Just use your bright imagination to come up with weight substitutes. Right. I know this is one "hot" question pertaining to strength training you want answer to..... Of course you know that using weights to strength-train is the fastest and most efficient way to increase strength and boost up metabolism. However, sometimes, out of no choice or forced to, you would have to train without weights, for a while. Like you're caught in these situations..... Perhaps you've no access to a gym? Or have no space in your home for a home gym ? Or it could be because you travel a lot in your work and wouldn't want fuss working in a hotel gym and prefer to have a simple no-frill, no-weight workout in your hotel room? Or could be you're like me who want increased strength, endurance and definition that strength training offers but who don't particularly fancy growing a lot of muscular bulk? Whatever the reasons, you can still do a decent routine of strength training without weight. How?
Well, I've got "nontraditional" way of training without using weight.... You need a small piece of exercise or resistance band though.....But still no fear here, as the band can be thrown into your bag (if you're traveling), be carried around anywhere you go! I'm talking about exercising using bands . The band provides a variable resistance, meaning the amount of resistance changes throughout the range of motion of your exercise. Cool, huh?
I can be quite "traditional" too when comes to strength training without weight...... My motto is - Get creative! How about making your own weights? Like putting some heavy books on your back and do push-ups? How about using a chair to do hamstring exercise? Place a chair in front of you. Lie on your back with your heels on the chair. Your Knees and hips bent at 90 degrees. Pushing down through your heels, raise your hips up towards the ceiling. Pause at the top and then lower your hips. Do 12 reps. Try out calf exercise on the stair- Stand on the edge of a stair step so that your heels are hanging off (on the balls of your feet). Allow your heels to drop below horizontal and raise up as high as you can onto your toes. You can also do this exercise one leg at a time. Do 12 reps. Your couch cushion can do some strength training for you too! Put a couch cushion on the floor. Lie on your back on the cushion, your knees bent so that your feet, butt and lower back are on the cushion, but your upper back and shoulders are on the floor. Cross your arms across your chest, lift your shoulder blades off of the floor. Pause, lower and repeat. Do 12 reps. This is good crunching for your abs!
What I'm trying to show here is this, if you can't find weights around you, doesn't mean you can't do strength training..... Improvise! Soup or vegetable cans can take your dumbbells' place. Old detergent bottles filled with sand or water can be good substitutes too. There, your strength training without weight is up and running. So next time, when you're in a hotel room, you've the choice to do Pilates, or to whip out your band and do a hard, hard band workout or using chair, cushion in the room to workout..... Still good training, right? Bookmark this page? Click one of the little buttons below and you're done. Back to top
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