Beginner Bodyweight Plan

What exercises does the Core Training involve?

One of my biggest, in fact, my outright biggest peeve with the exercises/workouts section of daily burn is the “body weight” exercises. Seriously, who put this together? Who has a barbell plate they take with them EVERYWHERE? Never mind the disparity between a body-weight only exercise and the fact that you’re telling people to use weight. How do you miss this?

Sir Ten Ninjas.

Methinks that this workout plan may be for both body and mind. Granted, this plan is entitled ‘body-weight’ plan. However, give in to the flow. And imagine what other shape the barbell plate might take should it not be a barbell plate, but weigh the same. A 1-gallon milk jug, with varied content might do the trick (water, sand, sand & water). And when one no longer was a challenge, move to two 1-gallon jugs.

But I’ve probably taken your rant the wrong way, and instead perhaps you were being simply sarcastic, and not negative.

:)

Good luck!

You assume way too much. There are places in the world where you don’t have 1 gallon milk jugs, or anything similar. When a user specifies they have access to nothing other than their body to exercise with, the exercises should not involve anything other than the body. No assumptions about equipment and resources – no matter how adaptable or simple they seem to be – should be made. No equipment means exactly that.

How many seconds should be taken for a rest between each set of reps and/or exercise set, if any?

Meh, I don’t have a bench. Ten ninjas is right. I don’t want to buy a bench to finnish this. Then you will probably say “but everyone has something like a bench”. My bed is too high, my couch is too unstable, and my chairs are too high and too unstable. :(

I don’t drink 1 gallon milk and can’t find anything as heavy as a barbell plate… I was hoping for a body weight ONLY one. Now that being said, will it require the plate and the bench all the time? Then I may as well just not finish this. Not gonna buy a bench for it! :(

If you have a staircase, you could use that in place of a bench. Or worse case scenario, you could use the edge of a bathtub.

A big can of tomatoes or a bag of rice or onions could substitute for the barbell.

Or even a rock ….and change the size as you progress….be creative!

If anyone wants an idea for something to use as a heavy weight, you can take a pillow case and fill it up with bottles of water or anything lying around. Apparently that’s very popular in prison – learned that from an inmate I treated who was hospitalized for rhabdomyolysis (he was doing bicep curls with a pillow case filled with water bottles for 6 straight hours, broke so much muscle fiber that he nearly damaged his kidneys). I’d recommend a bit more moderation than that though (and avoiding prison if you can).

Dave718 that is funny lololol