high tension bodyweight exercises

[Madmick]

You build a different kind of strength if you hold at the bottom, because you're working your muscle isometrically, not isotonically. This won't increase your bench press, but it will make you stronger in a different way. You need to work both kinds of contractions; personally, everyone in here seems a little weight-happy to me.

 

[muerteverde]

Thanx a lot for that site about the gymnastics excersiezes. Excellent articles on there and it was just what I needed. I had put some more body weight stuff into my routin to mix it up with the weights and the judo and this was exactly what I was looking for. That guy in the first articles I read really sounds like he knows what he is talking about and I tried some of the stuff last night and it was super hard. I have a good amount of strengtha dn agility for body weight excersizes, but the beginning levels of this stuff destroyed me. I am downloading more pages from that site today because they have stuff about one armed chins and a bunch of other stuff.

Here is a link to a big list of their articles I am going to read through if ajnyone else wants to check out some of them:

http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode2/Workouts

 

[killer_kicks88]

if you liked that, here's another article that you're going to like, it's another by coach Sommers http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=512003

 

[moodymikey]

you have to add resistance to the bodyweight exercises for brute strength gains. gymnasts use a variety of bodyweight exercises and have plenty of strength from that. if you know how to use bodyweight properly you can easily build up a lot of strength from it