There is an easy way climb a hill and there is a hard one.
There is the 'easy' plan for eating to lose weight and there is a hard one, and there is an easy way to exercise and there is a hard one.
Keep that in mind as you make your way through the rest of this article.
Essentially, there are various methods of exercise both inside and outside of the gym that people both professional and non-professional have come up with to help you shed those unwanted pounds, and there is a harsh reality to some of those training techniques.
One of the biggest trends these days is building a workout program that utilizes only your body weight as the resistance for various movements.
Moves like air-squats, pushups, pull-ups, crunches, planks, as well as others may not be sufficient enough to help you burn those calories and keep the weight off for a long period of time.
When you lift weights you are adding resistance and that resistance may be greater than your body weight.
Take for example the 'pushup'- it is the same thing as a bench press only you are using just the weight of your body to help build the pectoral muscles whereas the bench press you can keep adding additional weight as your muscles gain size.
That is where the body weight exercises come up short.
The first time that you try doing these different moves using just your body weight it might be difficult, but as your strength builds your body weight is not going to be enough and thus you have hit a bit of a brick wall.
The advantage to incorporating more lifts with free weights is that you will be able to bulk on muscle which is vital to helping you keep those pounds off as your muscles burn calories at rest and the more that you have the more you are going to burn.
Body-weight exercises alone are not sufficient enough by themselves to help keep the weight off. Most people that preach this method of training usually have to workout six days per week to stay in shape. Who has time for that?
The bottom line, if you are one of those people that has a workout that refrains from using free weights start rotating in lifts to take the place of those body weight moves. If you are doing air squats, then get in the squat rack and pound out a few sets. If you are doing pushups then get on a flat bench and do some repetitions. You do not have to stop doing the body-weight exercises, they are valuable to your physique, but you should throw in some free weight exercises as well to ensure that you can build and maintain lean body mass without having to spend every waking moment at the gym.
Back to the beginning of this article, there is an easy way and a hard way. One thing to remember is that if it was easy everyone would do it. From the looks of things it appears that most people are taking the easy way out.
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