you can modify or lighten your load on everything. Get yourself a band to assist with the pull ups and you’re all good.
“Do your best, forget the rest.”
I build up my legs sprinting and hiking/running steep hills.
I don’t do wallsits but we did for ski team. All kinds of other options.
I have some light dumbbells I do shoulders with.
Israel has probably one of the most robust military forces in the world and there women serve in combat roles, as with a number of other countries. If they can fit the standards why not give them a shot?
You’re not going to build any real power in your legs with out some form of olympic weightlifting like deadlifts squats or clean and press or even box jumps. What you are doing is building endurance, not power or strength.
Essentially all pro athletes weight train (not bodybuild) there is alot of value in it.
Gymnasts usaully have large shoulders, no? But for legs it is true.
I don’t see the point of just pure bodybuilding.
Jump squats will work for legs in a pinch. You won’t get great gains, but if your away from home for a week without a gym you wont feel guily for neglecting legs. 10 sets of 20, quick movement, Ass to grass and bring knees to nipples at the apex of the jump. None of that flex your calves crap.
I generally agree with Blake here. If you’re in decent shape and can run and push/pull your bodyweight, then a gym is relatively useless. If you’re like the folks on “Biggest Loser” and you can’t run and you can’t push/pull your bodyweight, then a gym is probably necessary.
While FT is technically correct, I wonder–unless you’re a competitive athlete, exactly how much leg/shoulder strength do you need?
The point of body building is to look muscular, not just to become healthier or better at sports. A gym is more useful if you live in a place with bad weather. It’s not pleasant to go running outside in 30 degrees rain.
Israel needs every body they can get. Plus, women aren’t allowed in all combat units, nor do all “combat” units actually engage in…combat, or at least the kind of light infantry type combat Marines are trained to do.
I just like the whole process, rhythm, and mental satisfaction of weightlifting. Maybe you could go without, but I don’t see a reason to.
Couple of things… I use to squat and deadlift. I am not playing Offensive Lineman in the NFL. You run up and down steep hills and I mean STEEP if you don’t have strong legs you will be hurting the next couple of days. I am not saying that the no gym model works for everyone but it works for me. I live in an area where it never rains or snows and there are some long and steep hills to run. I could not do this when I was living in New England.
Anyway the true test will be in the next six weeks when I go skiing. I always know where I am the first few times I go out…
Most people who just do bodyweight exercises don’t look proportional. Their backs and biceps look huge compared to their legs.
if you wanted to add some mass to your legs and keep the same routine you could just use a weighted vest. i’m a big fan of the weighted vest to add intensity to normal body weight exercises.
Open challenge to the AF athletes – The Murph. If you can do this in under an hour, you’re a BSD:
in a 20 lb weighted vest do the following–
run 1 mile
100 pull ups
200 push ups
300 air squats
run 1 mile
I like doing weighted vest pull ups
I like doing weighted vest pull ups
No takers for The Murph? You’re all worthless and weak. Come on Blake, based on your previous posts you could bang it out in 20 minutes with your aviators on.
I actually agree with Blake on this one (first time for everything), you can effectively build any muscle doing strenuous cardio and body weight training or throwing in some light weights. You don’t need to go to the gym and squat 987439279823798 pounds on the squat rack. If you’re worried about leg weights, get some 30 / 40 / 50 pound dumbbells and do squats, lunges, calf raises and your choice of hamstring exercises. That is plenty of weight to build some nice legs if you do it 3-4x a week.
Sad but true, if you polled 1,000 women you would find that 90%+ of them prefer the lean toned cardio guy over the bulky weight lifting guy. There’s a reason that almost all women prefer Brad Pitt in fight club to Vin Diesel. Go search brad pitt fight club on some weight lifting forums and you will see people rage over it, so much lol.
Fitness is great but the gym is a waste of time.
+1 for the weighted vest, I think mine was about $70-80 and goes up to 60 pounds.
True. But why is it sad?
True, but what you don’t mention is that the 10% who do prefer bulky guys are among the most physically attractive women out there. I’ve realized that the bustier a chick is, the more she likes bulky men. I am keeping everything else constant in my statement (no difference in income, personality, values, etc. among the toned vs bulky guy)