Focus on Basic Bodyweight Training, please…

It’s currently Football (Soccer) Saturday so I am currently watching Hull – Arsenal, and
believe it or not, I’m getting myself some Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream in a few
minutes (yeah, I am a real human being just like you, not a robot).

What I wanted to share with you today has to do with all the new super training methods
that seems to pop up all the time. I remembered a few years back when the whole idea of
performing exercises on unstable surface just were presented in Sweden.

A Swedish soccer team who won the Swedish Championship had a strength and
conditioning coach who was featured in the media showing the secrets behind the gold,
and their strength training sessions consisted of doing exercises such as squats on
stability balls.

With this concept came the “functional training” era and everyone were doing exercises
that only focused on balance, and not really on strength. Don’t get me wrong, some of this
stuff is good, but no matter what new super method we’ll see next, I know what always is
going to be KING over everything else – bodyweight training.

Focusing on basic and old school bodyweight training such as squats, lunges, pushups
and pullups are always going to be better then what you see on TV Shop, that’s a promise!

Sure, I love suspension training (gymnastic rings, TRX, Gravity Bar, etc) and also
resistance bands, but these tools allow me to take the bodyweight movements to the
next level, it’s not like you’re sitting on a machine doing leg curls and tricep extensions.

To show you what I mean, I found this funny video yesterday and I’m not sure I have
stopped laughing yet…

So please, for now on, don’t make everything so complicated, stick to basics, okay?

Have a great evening,
Jonas Forsberg