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Home Articles Reviews Videos App Store Book Shop Forum Can You Get Big With Just Bodyweight Training? By Adam Sinicki If you visit the Biomatrix often and watch my Oscar-nominated videos (okay that's a lie, they have never been nominated (yet)) then you will know that I condone using bodyweight exercises in order to get into shape. This has lead many people to e-mail me asking me whether or not you can get into bodybuilding shape using just bodyweight exercises (despite the fact that I always ask them to ask me on the message board). People tend to associate the huge humanisauruses that look like they can lift cars over their head with the bench press, the squat and the deadlift and presume that they'd needed to have spent a lot of time in the gym in order to achieve this level of awesome. The Power of Bodyweight Exercises To these people I have one name: Hannibal is King. If you don't know who that is, then you clearly don't waste nearly as much time browsing YouTube as I do... possibly a good thing. Essentially though, this is a guy who does press ups from one hand while holding onto iron bars, and who can do the human flag for probably hours at a time. Now if you could do these kinds of bodyweight moves, you'd probably find they were just as difficult as any kind of bench press and also used the entire body. Using the entire body this way means that you don't just build muscle, but also burn fat, and that the small supporting muscles in your body get more attention and that results in an incredibly lean but still muscular physique. So if you think that there's nowhere to go once you can do thirty press ups with ease, then how about clapping one handed handstand press ups? Precisely. Until you can do this then just learning to do that with clapping press ups, hand stand press ups, dips and planche (I mean real planche – i.e. no feet on the floor (which is actually called pussy planche...)). You can also work every single body part with bodweight exercises by using a bar for pull ups, and doing things like sissy squats and one legged squats for your legs. A lot of the bodyweight exercises out there people just don't know, so visit the Biomatrix TV for some suggestions. Drawbacks Admittedly though, despite this, to someone hoping to get into a huge kind of shape fast I wouldn't actually recommend to do just bodyweight exercises. The fact of the matter is that in order to grow you need to be able to lift a weight heavy enough that you can only do 4-8 reps. Unfortunately with bodyweight exercises, it is actually a long time before you can do these more difficult bodyweight exercises at all, and that means you're relegated to doing high repetitions of dips (though dips are a great workout) and ordinary pull ups. As such, my advice is to at least invest in some barbells and to use these in your workouts too. However to underestimate bodyweight workouts is folly.  Copyright 2012 The Biomatrix.Net

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