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Gaining weight without gym/freeweights?
« on: September 25, 2008, 05:28:59 PM »
I know what ppl will say, so don't tell me to forget about it and go to the gym...I've been on a program for a while and under circumstances  I was forced to cancel my gym membership and dont own/cant afford/no space for freeweights

So I need a full body building program for training w/o freeweights...It must be possible, maybe not best results but better than sitting on my ass all day
1 legged squads
pushing against the wall calf raisers
handstand pushups (cant do those yet but will eventually leaning against the wall)
etc...
I can probbly do pullups with a rope around an ibeam in the basement

any small or big suggestions will help, thx in advance

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Re: Gaining weight without gym/freeweights?
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2008, 05:55:03 PM »
http://www.rosstraining.com/articles/strengthvsconditioning.html   Get his book on bodyweight training. It's called never gymless. It's one of the best ones out there.  You can develop a fantastic physique with bodyweight exercises.  Male gymnast have great functional physiques.  Also body weight exercises have great athletic transfer.  Using sprinting and bodyweight exercises you can build a physique that will look fantastic.

In the past I have worked as a Correction officer in Rahway prison in NJ.  There were many weight trainers among the inmates but there was an equal amount of bodyweight exercisers. A lot of the body weight exercises looked ripped and muscular.  Another time I really thought about body weight exercising was when I was driving in a run down town of Asbury park, NJ.  There was an abandoned play ground and there were a bunch of guys working out doing chins, dips, pushups, freeweight squats, burpees and the like.  It was summer and the guys were ripped.  In the next town over in the rich white community they have a gym that has anything you can think of in it.  I would bet the bodyweight exercises could kick the dog sh*t out of most of the guys training in the gym that had everything.  The bottom link is Herschel Walker talking about how he used sprinting and body weight exercises to become one of the fastest and strongest running backs of all time. 




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Re: Gaining weight without gym/freeweights?
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2008, 06:49:09 PM »
nice thx!
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I like that video from above, thats exactly what I need is videos of workouts w/o weights cuz right now im reading 18books for school and I dont rly want to read workout books  :o

so, any more sites with pix/vids would be awsome, thx

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Re: Gaining weight without gym/freeweights?
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2008, 08:51:39 PM »

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Re: Gaining weight without gym/freeweights?
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2008, 12:03:00 AM »
http://www.rosstraining.com/articles/strengthvsconditioning.html   Get his book on bodyweight training. It's called never gymless. It's one of the best ones out there.  You can develop a fantastic physique with bodyweight exercises.  Male gymnast have great functional physiques.  Also body weight exercises have great athletic transfer.  Using sprinting and bodyweight exercises you can build a physique that will look fantastic.

In the past I have worked as a Correction officer in Rahway prison in NJ.  There were many weight trainers among the inmates but there was an equal amount of bodyweight exercisers. A lot of the body weight exercises looked ripped and muscular.  Another time I really thought about body weight exercising was when I was driving in a run down town of Asbury park, NJ.  There was an abandoned play ground and there were a bunch of guys working out doing chins, dips, pushups, freeweight squats, burpees and the like.  It was summer and the guys were ripped.  In the next town over in the rich white community they have a gym that has anything you can think of in it.  I would bet the bodyweight exercises could kick the dog sh*t out of most of the guys training in the gym that had everything.  The bottom link is Herschel Walker talking about how he used sprinting and body weight exercises to become one of the fastest and strongest running backs of all time. 




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Good stuff, alot of times we're brainwashed into forgetting the value of these. Ghetto workout on youtube is the same idea. As mentioned, if you work at it the calisthenics give a real nice athletic, muscular look.



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