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| Jun 21, 2014 at 20:45 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | It would be pretty easy to manufacture a dip belt yourself if you cannot order one. If you do not feel comfortable doing that, and you want to pursue strength through bodyweight exercises only, please do not just do a million situps and pushups. You will need to progressively increase the load by changing the exercises, as I mention in the last paragraph of my post above. Check out reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/comments/25kxq1/… for some routines. | |
| Jun 21, 2014 at 18:56 | comment | added | Dirk101 | Thanks for the advice, though a dip belt may be just as hard to come by as a squat stand unfortunately. The issue is that if raw strength cannot be achieved with what I have available, the next best thing is using what I have to get the most I can out of it. I doubt no strength gain would be achieved, but I'm going to see how it goes. | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 12:45 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | For weighted dips and pullups you will need a dip belt, some plates, and (eventually) a loading pin. The dip belt will also allow you to perform the hip belt squat as well, so these three exercises will give you a totally complete strength work out. It seems simple, but strength is simple. This is not optimal, but it is probably as close to optimal as you will get without the use of a barbell. | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 12:36 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | a lot of skill in addition to strength. If you follow the advice of Omar above, you will not get stronger. His recommendation does not even include any exercise for the lats at all! | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 12:34 | comment | added | Steven Gubkin | @Dirk101: The most important part of what I wrote above is that to make strength gains (not endurance gains), you need to incrementally increase the load. If you just do more pushups and situps, you will not get stronger: you will just have more muscular endurance. That is why for upper body, in your situation, the easiest way to get stronger is to use weighted dips and chins, which you can add a little weight to each time. A bodyweight routine where you have increasing difficulty of poses is also possible for strength building, but will involve | |
| Jun 20, 2014 at 12:08 | comment | added | Dirk101 | I was interested in Starting Strength, only I could not find distributors who would ship quality equipment to Romania. Having said that, I'mgoing to try and see what strength gains I can achieve with dumbbell+bodyweight exercises. | |
| Jun 18, 2014 at 11:25 | comment | added | computerjunkie | Agreed with Steven, strength training is all about progressive lifts, if you are lifting the same weight from three weeks ago then this is not strength training. Start out with body weight exercises, then once you can lift your own body weight start doing a programme like starting strength, 5x3x1 or 5x5. Focus on technique rather than compensating for more weight, there is only so much raw power can do before your body risks injury. All the best | |
| Jun 17, 2014 at 12:38 | history | answered | Steven Gubkin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |