Body Weight Training – My Routine

Alright, so lately I’ve been getting a lot of emails back and forth about what I do when it comes to body weight training and calisthenics. Aside from my weight training, my workout is pretty much simple to say the least. Although that being said, it might look simple on the looks of things but really it’s harder than it looks.

Before starting my routine, I do a quick 4-5 minute medium paced jog to get the blood going. Must I say it’s really important you warm up and stretch a little bit before you do any exercise. Blasting straight into a routine without giving your muscles a proper warm up can lead to muscle pulls, strains, and other connective tissue injuries as well.

Alright back to my workout. After I do my 5 minute warm-up and stretch, I start to do a set of push-ups doing as many as I can for that first set. After I complete my first set, I rest for about 1-2 minutes.

Going into my second set, I aim to get 10 less push-ups from my max from the first set. So if I did 60 push-ups the first set, I would drop down to 50. I would drop down another 5 push-ups the next following 2 sets.

After the completion of push-ups, I go straight into pull-ups. For the first 3 sets, I’ll start with a overhand grip. The first set I’ll aim to do 12, the second set 10, and the third 8. After I complete 3 sets, I’ll do another 3 sets underhand with the same repetition scheme as stated for the overhand sets.

The next exercise on the list is bodyboards. This exercise also goes by other names, but I prefer the more simpler and easy to remember name. I’ll also super set this exercise with sit-ups from time to time. Anywho, I’ll do three sets of bodyboards with a minute in each set for a total of 3 sets. And if I don’t super set this exercise, I’ll either do V-ups or even sit-ups on a decline bench.