It doesn't matter much if you are a gym rat or are new to physical fitness and wanting to begin a resistance training program, body weight workouts are your smartest choice. You will find some moves difficult to master but worth the effort as the benefits are enormous.

I think I could write all day telling you why everyone needs to include bodyweight exercises in their workout routine but I'll save you from that and hit the key points.

The list is rather long but here are just some of the positive aspects to using your body weight for workout routines.

• Exercise at your convenience

With such a hectic calendar training can often take a back seat when it's inconvenient. This makes convenience a necessity if you're going to squeeze in a workout. If we are honest with ourselves, we all know that our training routines will undoubtedly be neglected if it's too difficult to fit the gym in. If we are honest with ourselves, we know that our workouts will be skipped if it's too difficult to fit the gym in. Shuffling a hectic career, family, and all that other stuff can make fitting in a moment for the gym hard. With body weight exercises you don't have to worry about making it to the gym. You don't need any equipment or much room they can do them when you have time and anyplace

• Perfect for beginners

If you are new to exercise and fitness body weight exercises are necessary. Body weight exercises allow you to develop motor control and learn how to do the different exercises before you add any extra weight to them. Like anything else you do, you have to learn the basics and fundamentals before you can move to the more advanced applications. Starting out with beginner body weight exercises will give you a good base for exercises that come in the future, as you progress.

• Easily adapted

No matter your fitness level each and every exercise can easily be made tougher or much easier. This way regardless your fitness level you can actually get a complete range of motion. Take push ups for example, an advanced bodybuilder can do a one hand push up. On the other hand, if you are a beginner you can simplify the exercise by placing their hands on the wall or other race surface.

• Choice

The variation is incredible with body weight exercises. They can be used to build strength, or you can make a cardiovascular workout routine. Maybe a little creativity is necessary, but there are near endless combinations and varieties of bodyweight exercises.

• Buddy Workouts

Because no equipment is needed you are able to workout in groups large and small. It is always more fun to workout with someone and in a small group. This makes it easy. Because each exercise has a progression it will not matter what fitness level people are at. As mentioned before every exercise can be scaled and modify to fit anybody. .

• Foundation for every other exercises

As a strength coach this may be the most critical factor for me. Before you progress, and add extra weight to any body weight exercise is mandatory that your technique be perfect. If you can't perform a full range of motion exercise with good postural alignment at just your bodyweight then you have no business doing it weighted.

As you can see body weight exercises overcome two of the most common obstacles people face getting into shape, time and money. There isn't anything you need to buy, it can be done anytime and anywhere, so can fit into the busiest schedule. No need to worry, get started today...