While weightlifting is beneficial for lots of reasons, it’s not required to build strength and sculpt your body. For many people, getting a workout on with your own body weight is enough. Using just your bodyweight, you can build phenomenal strength and muscle mass.
Typically, when we think of full body workout at home routines where you’re more or less limited to using your bodyweight, we automatically assume that they’re inferior for muscle growth when compared to working out at a gym, where you have access to heavy weights. But, this is simply because they aren’t designed properly.
Regardless of how skeptical you may be; bodyweight does build muscle.
The science behind building muscles is simple. During hypertrophy or when muscles are strained or injured, the body repairs them by fusing muscle fibers. This process increases the mass, size and strength of muscles.
Now, this strain can come from using equipment or your bodyweight. The key is to strain muscles to the point of natural recovery. The entire concept of calisthenics is based on this process.
Often people associate working out with the pursuit of weight loss or maintenance. But if you are underweight or looking to bulk up, you may be looking at working out in order to gain weight. Though working out is great for weight loss and overall health it can also be used as a healthy way to put on weight. We will provide you with what you need to know to gain weight while working out at home.
Gaining muscle will help you to gain weight and working out can help you develop stronger, more dense muscle. When using working out as a tool to help you gain weight, either for health-related reasons or a desire to “bulk up” it is critical that you perform exercises that will help you meet this goal.
In order to gain weight by working out, you will need to focus on strength and muscle building workouts. This means that both bodyweight and weighted workout movements are your friend.
