The Complete Guide to Bodyweight Training

A comprehensive practical compendium of bodyweight exercises and the theory behind them.

Bodyweight training is one of the growing global trends in fitness. It's simple enough to explain - using your own body weight to improve your fitness and strength, and yoga and gymnastic practitioners have been doing this for years.

But the theory behind it isn't often understood. Kesh Patel contextualises bodyweight training - where did it come from? What is Evolutionary Fitness? and looks at the theory behind it. Understand the basics of biomechanics and you can adapt and improve your bodyweight training programmes and improve your results. So find out about working with gravity, how skills acquisition works, how to develop posture and balance - all based on biomechanical principles.

This book is packed with practical, clear and accessible exercise ideas, progressing from fundamental movement patterns to more advanced exercises, along with details of exercise programming - including adaptations for different skill levels, working with groups, and ideas to integrate bodyweight exercises into traditional weight training, circuit and bootcamp classes, to name but a few.

Autorentext

Kesh Patel is a specialist in corrective exercise and posture. He owns and runs the Origin Health fitness clinic in Guildford, Surrey, which deals with a number of clients and is currently the only centre in the country offering personal trainer courses on postural assessment and exercise. He has written one book (Corrective Exercise, Hodder Arnold, 2005) and frequently contributes articles to trade and consumer magazines.

Zusammenfassung
Bodyweight training is one of the growing global trends in fitness. It's simple enough to explain using your own body weight to improve your fitness and strength, and yoga and gymnastic practitioners have been doing this for years. But the theory behind it isn't often understood. Kesh Patel contextualises bodyweight training where did it come from? What is Evolutionary Fitness? and looks at the theory behind it. Understand the basics of biomechanics and you can adapt and improve your bodyweight training programmes and improve your results. So find out about working with gravity, how skills acquisition works, how to develop posture and balance all based on biomechanical principles. This book is packed with practical, clear and accessible exercise ideas, progressing from fundamental movement patterns to more advanced exercises, along with details of exercise programming - including adaptations for different skill levels, working with groups, and ideas to integrate bodyweight exercises into traditional weight training, circuit and bootcamp classes, to name but a few.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION TO BODYWEIGHT TRAINING
Chapter 1 Why train with bodyweight?

PART TWO: EXERCISE CONSIDERATIONS AND PROGRAMME DESIGN
Chapter 2 Training strategies
Chapter 3 Training format
Chapter 4 Warming up
Chapter 5 Cooling down

PART THREE: BODYWEIGHT SKILLS
Chapter 6 Stability skills
Chapter 7 Manipulative skills
Chapter 8 Locomotor skills

PART FOUR: MOVEMENT SEQUENCES AND FLOWS
Chapter 9 Transitional sequences
Chapter 10 Locomotor sequences

Appendix Sample workouts
References and Further Reading
Glossary
Index