Strength training with no weights?

I like these ideas.

What about going old school and using cans of food, books, bottles of water, that sort of thing as your weights? If you're looking to start out at 5 lbs. and under, you should have a fair number of household items that would work. Of course, body weight works, too, and is more convenient. If you want to up the difficulty, do your movements as slowly and smoothly as you possibly can and concentrate on absolutely perfect form.

Eh, if you do the right Yoga, you can build quite a bit of muscle.

Do yoga like this, in the presence of a calorie surplus, and you WILL gain muscle mass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loszrEZvS_k

Nobody really disputes that gymnasts can build muscle; there is an awful lot of crossover between gymnastics and yoga.

Basic beginners yoga though, not so much.

If you have never ever done any strength training and have no muscle, it's very believable to add muscle with yoga. Especially over a long period of time.

and while eating more calories than your body needs.

Going up into a handstand without kicking up (called a handstand press) requires a ton of shoulder and core strength or extreme shoulder and compression/pancake flexibility (even then, its still frickin hard). If you can't really stack yourself up near perectly vertical (forget touching your toes, flatpalming between your heels), it gets difficult fast.

Your average dude will find a handstand press every bit as difficult as a 1x BW overhead press, if not harder if flexibility is a serious issue.

i'm not even close to being able to do one, and I can bang out 10 handstand pushups without issue.

Eh, if you do the right Yoga, you can build quite a bit of muscle.

Do yoga like this, in the presence of a calorie surplus, and you WILL gain muscle mass:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loszrEZvS_k

Now THAT's awesome. Interesting - no a hint of a six pack but undoubtedly a strong core. I am working towards hand and headstands without kicking up as shown in this video.

Also - for those intersted in a good solid power style full yoga routine; try Mark Gonzales:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLi93EIHx5o

She also has a healthy amount of body fat, which would contribute to not seeing her abs fully. I'm stuck with the same vague line going down my front. And I just saw the video of her earlier, how absolutely gorgeous! We also do not know if her only training is yoga. And as a person who is into yoga, there's definitely core involved, but her legs and arms did most of that work. I just saw this video earlier, it has me inspired to lift weights to get my leg and arm strength up quicker lol.

Strength from weight lifting does not translate into that sort of work very well at all. Moving objects is very different than moving yourself. The more advanced you become at either, the more true this is.

There is a ton of crossover between yoga and gymnastics, gymnastics does seem to have a more defined progression system for strength gain. Either way, to get strong enough to do that sort of work, do that sort of work.

Going up into a handstand without kicking up (called a handstand press) requires a ton of shoulder and core strength or extreme shoulder and compression/pancake flexibility (even then, its still frickin hard). If you can't really stack yourself up near perectly vertical (forget touching your toes, flatpalming between your heels), it gets difficult fast.

Your average dude will find a handstand press every bit as difficult as a 1x BW overhead press, if not harder if flexibility is a serious issue.

i'm not even close to being able to do one, and I can bang out 10 handstand pushups without issue.

I could do a head stand no problem without kicking up doing exactly as she did, very slowly, legs to gut. Even as a puny puny weakling.

Going up into a handstand without kicking up (called a handstand press) requires a ton of shoulder and core strength or extreme shoulder and compression/pancake flexibility (even then, its still frickin hard). If you can't really stack yourself up near perectly vertical (forget touching your toes, flatpalming between your heels), it gets difficult fast.

Your average dude will find a handstand press every bit as difficult as a 1x BW overhead press, if not harder if flexibility is a serious issue.

i'm not even close to being able to do one, and I can bang out 10 handstand pushups without issue.

I could do a head stand no problem without kicking up doing exactly as she did, very slowly, legs to gut. Even as a puny puny weakling.

jealous

Learn how to do pushups and pullups (you can do inverted ones till you're stronger) first.

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With nothing but a pullup bar you can do GREAT strength training routine that is 100% bodyweight based. But you have to not be afraid to progress as you get stronger to moves that are not only more strength intensive, but also more balance/coordination intensive.

I've put on 10lbs of muscle doing yoga every day. It uses your own body weight to build muscle.

There is no need to be snide, immediately. Having a bad day, are we?
If she says she has begun doing yoga and she has gained 10 pounds of muscle, how can you prove it is not related?

Building muscle is incredibly difficult, even harder for a woman. Building 10lbs of muscle lifting heavy weights without roids would be a challenge, doing it using yoga is quite honestly unbelievable. Feel free to do some research before criticising people who are correct in their disbelief. :noway:

You have no idea where she started. Ten pounds of muscle in someone who was sedentary and eating junk isn't all that amazing. Well, at least the measurements show that because the don't take into account changing bone density.

Now, ten pounds of muscle in someone who was already working out, that is another story.

Further more, that research stuff you were talking about does show impressive strength and LBM gains through yoga.

A great site for body weight exercises and instructions on how to do the various exercises that people talk about is:

Al Kavadoi's website "We're Working Out" - he is very informative and has great step by step instructions. He also has stuff that gets really advanced.

http://www.alkavadlo.com/

I've put on 10lbs of muscle doing yoga every day. It uses your own body weight to build muscle.

There is no need to be snide, immediately. Having a bad day, are we?
If she says she has begun doing yoga and she has gained 10 pounds of muscle, how can you prove it is not related?

Building muscle is incredibly difficult, even harder for a woman. Building 10lbs of muscle lifting heavy weights without roids would be a challenge, doing it using yoga is quite honestly unbelievable. Feel free to do some research before criticising people who are correct in their disbelief. :noway:

You have no idea where she started. Ten pounds of muscle in someone who was sedentary and eating junk isn't all that amazing. Well, at least the measurements show that because the don't take into account changing bone density.

Now, ten pounds of muscle in someone who was already working out, that is another story.

Further more, that research stuff you were talking about does show impressive strength and LBM gains through yoga.

Please point me to these studies/research because I couldn't find any that had actually proof not just hearsay. And 10lbs of muscle is what a beginner (woman) doing a proper training plan and eating at a surplus could hope to gain in one year, and is very amazing - it takes dedication and hard work. I never said yoga didn't show impressive strength gains, I actually said it did (feel free to read all the thread before commenting) but it does not build 10lbs of muscle.

Even the person I was talking about admitted she had not proof it was actually muscle. She just lost some inches but gained weight and assumed it was all muscle.

Edit: this has been discussed and finished with earlier. I will not derail the ops thread further - feel free to start a new thread if you want.

Going up into a handstand without kicking up (called a handstand press) requires a ton of shoulder and core strength or extreme shoulder and compression/pancake flexibility (even then, its still frickin hard). If you can't really stack yourself up near perectly vertical (forget touching your toes, flatpalming between your heels), it gets difficult fast.

Your average dude will find a handstand press every bit as difficult as a 1x BW overhead press, if not harder if flexibility is a serious issue.

i'm not even close to being able to do one, and I can bang out 10 handstand pushups without issue.

I could do a head stand no problem without kicking up doing exactly as she did, very slowly, legs to gut. Even as a puny puny weakling.

:flowerforyou:

TRX system is pretty darn good. Try that!

www.trxtraining.com