The Freedom Of Bodyweight Training

 When you become invested in your body's potential, you experiment and learn what it is capable of doing. Granted some programs are just flat out wrong or are twisted to the point where you're expected to do hundreds of a single exercise and call it training. Is hundreds of push-ups, squats, step-ups and/or pull-ups really necessary? Hell no unless you're a pro athlete and need to build a level of conditioning suited to specific goals and/or sports oriented training.

One of the benefits of bodyweight training is not just the fact they can be done anywhere and anytime, but they allow freedom in ways most methods can't. The freedom to express yourself through the use of your own body and do something unique and stepping out of the box. There's Animal Movements, there's a way to express the way you do push-ups and other calisthenics without feeling bored or sore the next day and you can learn how to use them as play more than just a workout. Now I do believe in safety and some exercises are not meant for everyone but with a long term goal, you can be creative without risking injury.

This ability to develop an imagination with exercise and movement in general can be an asset through the use of CoreForce Energy where it teaches how to incorporate sounds, techniques that pit the mind and body together to create faster movements, explosiveness and endurance. The breath work from this course is worth the price in itself as it shows how to be stronger on both the inhale and the exhale while most feel stronger through one or the other. It teaches how to pinpoint certain aspects of movement so you can be more fluid and stronger at the same time whether it's lifting a kettlebell, going up a flight of stairs, carrying a suitcase or building greater strength in your push-ups and squats.

With safe modalities and unnecessary risks, you create bodyweight workouts how you see fit, you don't always have to do things up and down, you can go sideways, make twists and turn, forwards and backwards, hell you can even do 360 jumps if your body can withstand it and create combinations that would baffle people. Sure I have done goofy stuff in my workouts and have done some workouts where I was told how nuts I was but that's the beauty of the way I do things, it gives me freedom to express myself without saying anything and just doing it. 

You learn to apply the mindset that when you let yourself be free, a whole new world will open up to you. This could apply to weights too and the best person that teaches the freedom with weights in my opinion is Bud Jeffries, nobody I've ever heard of except maybe Garin Bader and a couple others uses more expression and off the wall experimental aspects of training than Bud does, he's unique in that aspect and challenges the norm more than anyone. Having the fundamentals is a key and once you have them down, in the words of Anakin Skywalker in Episode 3 "This is where the fun begins", you now learn how to use your imagination to create workouts that are meant for you and your goals. 

Be expressive in your training, make it work for you and inspire others to show their creative side to exercise. You can learn all the exercises you want and some may not work but don't restrict yourself to what's going on externally, once you can bring out what's internal, you'll have greater power and movement. Bodyweight Training is not just calisthenic based exercise, it's a window to a creative world where your body is the canvas, your mind is the paint brush and your movement is the painting.