Bodyweight Training for Virtual Nomads - By: Ryan Murdock

Bodyweight training is the exercise modality for our times.

We live in an age of Virtual Nomads, where the leaders of today are expected to be mobile, self-contained, self-reliant, totally portable, and absolutely efficient.

We demand this of our employees, our gadgets, and our networks. It's time we demanded it of our fitness system.

Bodyweight Training is Portable

We work from laptops, carry our data in iphones or PDA's, and jet back and forth across the country to attend meetings and conferences. We carry portable tools for portable times. Everything essential must fit on our laptops or in our pockets. There's no room to spare, because we've got to act fast and move quickly. It's the motto of our times.

With such a lifestyle, maintaining a gym membership becomes an added burden, simply because it ties you to a fixed location. The modern Virtual Nomad needs an exercise system that's as portable as they are.

With bodyweight training, your system travels with you. The workouts and video clips fit in your laptop. Equipment? You don't need it. The only resistance you need is gravity, and you're already carrying your body with you.

Bodyweight Training is Fast

In addition to being highly mobile, our lives are increasingly time-compressed. We're constantly forced to shave away the superfluous, and to accomplish more with less time.

Who can afford a twenty minute commute to the gym, time to change and shower, and then having to spend most of a one-hour session waiting around for equipment to free up? It simply isn't a good return on your time investment.

Bodyweight training makes that burden of "showing up" redundant. You can do it anywhere, with a minimal amount of space, and with no equipment. And your sessions are compressed and intense, allowing you to nail off your training in 20 intense minutes, rather than an hour of train/loaf around/train.

You don't tap that intensity with an endless series of pushups and situps. You hit it with something more intense, something designed to work you to your limits as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Welcome to the new evolution in bodyweight training.

It's Economical

Finally, given the strain of the current economic situation, costly gym memberships are difficult to maintain. When banks are collapsing, entire countries are going bankrupt, and our investments are shrinking, such frills are even harder to justify. These days, gym memberships are being written off as luxuries.

With bodyweight training, you don't need them. Instead, you learn to set yourself free.

Try it for yourself

Here's a simple bodyweight workout you can perform 3x per week, at home or in a hotel room, in a very short amount of time. Give it one month at 3x per week, and I promise you'll see impressive results.

Your workout is:

15 squats / 10 press ups / 5 super slow situps

I want you to perform those movements every minute on the minute for 20 minutes. That's your session.

At first you'll feel like you want to coast through the exercises, to spread your reps out over the full minute. Don't do it. You'll gas out long before 20 minutes are up.

Your strategy should be to get all your reps in as quickly as possible. Drill it into your head that the faster you go, the longer you rest. Aim to nail all your reps in 30 seconds at most. Maximizing quality rest time between sets will see you through the duration. It'll also cause your body to adapt in interesting ways, so that it starts recovering at an unbelievable rate.

Good luck!

About the Author

Ryan Murdock is an RMAX Faculty Coach, Senior Editor of RMAX Magazine, and coauthor of Bodyweight Exercise Revolution. He travels the globe to conduct seminars and to work with a wide range of private clients, including professional athletes, government agencies, and international rock stars Lita Ford, Jim Gillette (Nitro), and Steve Kilbey (The Church). For more information, please see http://www.bodyweightexerciserevolution.com

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