Body Weight Exercises For Women

By Mohamad Alodah
Body weight exercises for women can be as effective as using external weights, like dumbbells, resistance bands and tubes, kettlebells, barbells, and machine weights.
However, many women are under the impression of having a real workout think it is by only using external weights. That is not completely true, and I will explain briefly to you why this is not the case.
Many of the famous bodybuilders in the 1920's and 1930's have achieved excellent physiques in terms of strength and the aesthetic look by performing primarily body weight exercises.
Many of the gymnastics (whether professionals or amateur) have reached impressive strength, flexibility, and very desirable physiques from using their own body weights as the bulk of their physical training.
Many of the martial art athletes use the same method of resistance which is the manipulation of body weight exercises. This is important for women who are limited by time, affordability, or just too many managing tasks to understand this concept so they are not bound to one school-of-thought by thinking they must go to the gym in order to lose weight or firm up their body!
As long as the body is receiving a stimulus of resistance whether it is coming from dumbbells, resistance bands, a sack of potatoes, or your own body weight, it will react appropriately to that resistance.
Some of the Effective Body weight Exercises for Women
Body weight Exercises for Legs
1- Step Up: using a step up exercise to firm your legs by simply using a stairwell, or any sturdy flat object like a stool, chair, or bench.
2- Forward Lunges: there are different types of body weight lunges you can perform and increase the level of difficulties. Another excellent exercise for your legs is the forward lunges; where you take a long step or lunge forward with your left leg and then squat until the back knee (of your right leg) almost touches the ground.
3-Side Lunges: is another great exercise to work the legs and butt. In side lunges, for example, you perform the step or lunge to the right side, then squat, push yourself back to the beginning position and take a side step to left, and then repeat.
Body weight Exercises for Arms and Chest
Push-ups are a wonderful exercise to perform, and it works your chest and the back muscles of your arms area which is called "the triceps".
There are a fair number of women who are not able to perform regular push-ups, so I recommend to you to use many of the furniture objects that are elevated off the ground, like the edge of the bed, chair, sofa, or even a wall. Therefore, performing elevated push ups will make it easier than the regular push ups where you perform them on the floor.
There are countless numbers of body weight exercises to target all your muscles in your body and knowing that, this information will provide you with a strength and freedom from being bound to one thing only.