How do you work out?

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I did not want to respond initially, although one comment had me wondering about this. But now I feel like if my advice is helpful to anyone, then it was worth it. Please throw it away if you feel discouraged by it.

I have tried many things in my life when I was young. Several sports, weight lifting for around half a year, and then when I got into computers, I stopped. Until last year.

I got in quite good shape thanks to doing very basic things like yoga, excessive stretching and doing some weight lifting at home. But then I have read a few materials that described the concept where one exercises without using external weights, and I find myself more and more attracted to them.

Basically, the idea of benching a lot of KG's might be fascinating to some, but it literally adds dead weight to your body. You will not use those muscles to defend yourself, you will not use those muscles to climb trees, you will not be having a healthier circulation (because it IS a dead weight), you will just be able to perform a specific task over and over and over, at the expense of your body's long term health.

If you want to be strong and healthy, do not use weights. Use natural methods like pushups, leg lifting, climbing, climbing the stairs, stretching and endurance training. Use and build your body as a whole, do not pick and favor specific muscles. Ask yourself: what do you want to do with this? You do not want to fight or intimidate others? Then do not let yourself feel bad if you do not follow the mainstream body builder road. One can be strong without those tools.

I will get back to all of you once I am in a more advanced stage in my training, cause I would want to back these ideas up with some more experience, but I can safely say that after 3 months of one specific weightless training, my chest/shoulder area is stronger than it ever was, and it does not necessary look like that is the case, if we only look at the muscle increase. Which is not non-existent, but still, not as much if I were simply increasing the weights on those parts of my training

Balance and movement is the key in this one, as always. And do not neglect your legs.