Bodyweight Exercise With no Equipment and Little Time

Bodyweight Exercise You Can Do Without Weights and With Little Time

If you are exercising on a regular basis, sometimes you’ll find that for whatever reason you may end up with no equipment and with very little time. Do you just skip your workout? No. You shorten it and you improvise. But you don’t skip.

So what can you do if you have very little equipment and very little time? The answer is not as simple as it seems. Why? Because of individualization. Your level of fitness, your age, your goals and your time will all dictate what exercises you should do. Would it make any sense to give the same exercises to a 50-year-old complete beginner who wants to lose weight as it would for a 126-pound, 20 year old male who wants to gain muscle (you know who you are ;)?

No, of course not.

That’s why writing specific programs in a one-size fits-all program just isn’t right.

However, I won’t leave you hanging. I’ll give you some rough guidelines for what can be done when there is no equipment and very little time.

Isometrics are a long-forgotten form of exercise that was popular in the early and middle part of the 20th century. Isometrics are still used in gymnastics as a great way to build strength quickly.

What are isometrics? Isometrics are a form of exercise where your muscles contract, but you don’t move. Here is one example: