How to Achieve Your Fitness Goals With Bodyweight Exercises For Strength, Stamina and Endurance

Achieving your fitness goals happens fastest when you combine a plan with effective training methods, a training partner and a vision of your goal realised.

Lets break it down -

1) A bad plan is better than no plan - get something written down for you to start working on. Pick something that you can realistically achieve. No matter how incomplete your goal seems to you write something down. Now it exists, and is something for you to work on. For example running a mile in under 6, 7, 8 minutes - whatever works best for you before the 20th of december 2008. Choose a date,

2) You want someone to hold you to your plan, a training partner is ideal. Training becomes more fun and you inspire each other to get the job done. Its no longer just about your goal, but about helping your buddy to realise theirs too. The fact of the matter is that you will always do more for others than you will for yourself - weird, but true.




3) Select a training method that suits you best - for most people this tends to be a combination of light cardio with bodyweight exercises. Too much cardio places excessive wear and tear on the joints, leads to loss of muscle tone and for some can be boring. We ideally recommend light cardio such as a fast 1 -2 mile run once or twice a week combined with short and effective bodyweight exercises 2 - 3 times per week.

Bodyweight exercises are the most effective type of training for athletes from Michael Jordan to Arnold Schwarzenegger. For example, Arnie trained with a huge amount of different and varied bodybuilding methods but two of the most consistent exercises in his training arsenal are bodyweight chin ups and dips - no matter what. Whereas, Michael Jordan pioneered many different types of explosive bodyweight leg training in order to dominate the court.

With bodyweight exercises, you work solely with your own body - no weights, and the total body conditioning that results is both fast and effective. The exercises can be done anywhere, and no special equipment is required.

4) See your goal realised - whatever your goal is get a picture in your head of satisfying that goal. Take a few minutes each day to visualise yourself croosing that finish line as the clock ticks, or pumping out your 100th push up, as your buddy cheers you on. Whatever you can see in your mind's eye you will achieve. So have the faith to set a goal, and look forward to achieving it and you will.

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