Video: Calisthenics Vs Weight Training

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Calisthenics are warm-up exercises designed to prepare the muscles for a strenuous workout, while weight training actually incorporates weights as a resistance to our own body weight. Better understand these types of workouts with these tips from an experienced personal trainer in this free video on fitness and exercises.

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Hi this is Aaron Hale at Fitness for Life in Wilmington, North Carolina talking to you about the differences between calisthenics and weight training. Calisthenics for the most part are warm up exercises, the sit ups, the crunch, the push up, the chin up, however, as opposed to with weight training we are actually incorporating weight as a resistance as to our own body weight so the basic differences there is with calisthenics you are using your own body weight as the resistance. With weight training we are actually incorporating weight to be the resistance during the course of a movement. However we have found that I have plenty of clients here today that use the chin up which is a calisthenic movement and it is very difficult for most people to perform. Earlier in life it is not that difficult but chin ups and push ups become very difficult as we get older so we have to incorporate weight typically with a lat pull or something like that and reduce the weight so they are not having to fight their body but also work those same muscles. So that is kind of an example where calisthenics is actually a little bit tougher than actual weight training. Contrary to that with the sit up, most people can do a sit up without too much issue. You incorporate a plate or some sort of other form of resistance in weight training and it will actually make that movement more difficult so calisthenics basically you are using your own body weight. Any movement in which you are using your own body weight as the resistance and then you have weight training in which you are using weight or some sort of artificial weight as the resistance during your work out program. So those are the differences between calisthenics and weight training. This is Aaron Hale at Fitness for Life.

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Calisthenics Vs Weight Training

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