The best way for women to build muscle and reduce body fat is by doing bodyweight exercises .

The great thing is that these exercises can be done anywhere, anytime without having any crazy equipment .

And it gets rid of any excuses for not training.

Here are 5 bodyweight exercises for women -

1) Reverse Crunch – knees bent, hands placed beside your hips flat on the floor, bring your knees towards your chin while exhaling. Your hips should come off the floor and slowly lower your feet to just above floor level. Do 15-20 reps.

2) Side (Plank) Bridge – lie on your side so that your body is rigid and straight. The only contact points on the floor are your forearm and the near side of your foot. Do 20-30 seconds.

3) Front Bridge – Lie face down so that your body is rigid and straight, the only contact points on the floor are both forearms and both sets of toes. Do 20-30 seconds.

4) Split Jump – Stand in a lunge position with one leg between half to a meter in front of the other, arms at your sides. Bend at the knees until your back leg almost touches the floor, then swing your arms forward and jump as high as you can. While in the air, switch leg positions so that you can land softly with the other leg in front. Repeat for 8 to 12 reps.

5) Push-ups; or if you are a beginner try the kneeling push-up (push up position but with your knees on the floor)

Bodyweight exercises for women can be adjusted as the fitness level improves.

As your body fat decreases and strength improves, adjust the exercises to make it more challenging .

For example, you can change the kneeling push-up to the same push-up from your toes. Or if you want to make it more difficult, why not adjust the position of your hands to continuously advance your muscle strength.

Varying the intensity is a great alternative to making the workouts more challenging .

Best yet, why not do 10 push-ups followed immediately by 10 split jumps. Then rest for 60 seconds, and repeat again.

The aim here is to increase the intensity by alternating between an upper body exercise and a lower body exercises for greater impact.

Therefore, the higher the intensity, the better the metabolic impact you will have on your body .

What can bodyweight exercises do for you ?

They will help you build pure strength, unbelievable fitness, build muscle, lose weight, increase cardio function, and improve performance. Bodyweight exercises will help you achieve fast results no matter what your health and fitness goals are .

The other benefits of body weight workouts are:

FITNESS, you can do these exercises at any time, regardless of what your current fitness level is . You can start of nice and slow and as your fitness grows, you can push yourself and try more complex bodyweight exercises. When doing bodyweight exercises for the first time, keep it basic.

WEIGHT LOSS, these execises will you help you if you’re looking to drop some weight . Bodyweight exercises use more muscles at any one time therefore burning more calories and increasing your chances of achieving your weight loss goals. Grouping various exercises together will give you a total body workout.

TAKE AWAY WORKOUT, you don’t need a lot of space and these exercises can be done anywhere . If you travel a lot, spend time in hotels you can do this workout in your room you don’t need to find a hotel with a gym. If you’re a busy mom you can also take advantage of this workout because there is no preparation time, no noisy equipment to disturb your little one while they sleep. The workout is so versatile it will suit one and all. Everybody can find 5 minutes at some point in the day to do a quick bodyweight circuit.

COST, the great thing is it costs you nothing to follow this type of workout program .
How to perform the workout.

To get the best out of this workout, perform it using interval training. This is achieved by doing as many reps as you can in a set amount of time followed by a short rest then repeat. For example perform a series of bodyweight exercises 3 times, for 20 seconds then rest for 10 seconds, so you would squat for 20 seconds rest for 10 seconds the repeat another two times.

If possible have someone time you. This will help you with your concentration so you can focus on what your doing, especially as you start to tire.
Perform this workout 2 – 3 times per week and depending on your fitness either do intervals of 10 seconds on 10 seconds of, 20 and 10 or 30 and 10.

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First instalment of diet vs. exercise where Craig Ballantyne and Brad Pilon show you how ineffective cardio is and just how dramatic your calorie intake can be without you knowing it.

The simple truth is; you can’t out-train a bad diet.

Today, in this contest, Craig Ballantyne is going to run on the treadmill on an incline of .5 and a speed of 10.5 mph for 3 minutes, while Brad Pilon eats pizza and drinks soda pop.

Brad is going to try to consume as many calories as he can in those 3 minutes, while Craig is going to see how many calories he can burn off in that same amount of time.

In 3 minutes, Brad consumed approximately 1000 total calories, while Craig burned only 43 calories.

Cardio loses against diet.

This just goes to show you, in diet vs. exercise, you can never out train a bad diet. It doesn’t matter how good your program is, if this is your nutrition, you’re not going to lose fat.

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(This is Part 2 of 6 in my Personal P90X Nutrition Plan Video Series.)

My Personal P90X Nutrition Plan Video One – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8kCZJ0_Mk8

The most common questions I get are all based on the P90X Nutrition and what works. Well my friends the best thing I could do was create a video to explain what I have done in the past and present, what works for me, and a bunch more.

Being me I went to make you a single ten minute video to sum it all up – What I got was 45 minutes of some great content that I decided to split up and share with you over a 6 day series of videos. Each video has it’s own subject discussion, some based on diet, some based on weight loss, some based on fitness training, and another of food.

I really hope you all enjoy the work I put into these videos – Of course I am no expert so if you are an expert and have some advice i’d love your feedback!

Be sure to check out Part 3 of 6 in my Personal P90X Nutrition Plan {Protein – The Building Block of Muscle}

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