A Muscle Building Workout You Can Do Without Weights

If you want to build muscle, barbell exercises are the easiest way. The problem: you need weights. Not everyone can afford expensive gym memberships or buy a home gym. Maybe you don't feel the need to get huge, but would still like to gain a little muscle and tone what you already have. Fortunately, there are some simple yet effective exercises you can use to sculpt your body. Here's a muscle building workout you can do without weights:

Body-weight Exercises

Your body needs a reason to build muscle. That reason is stress. Exercising will stress your body and force it to build muscle. You don't have access to weights, so you'll use body-weight exercises:

• Pull-ups. Build back & arms muscles. Doorway pull-up bars or any surface where you can hang from work. If you can't do one rep with correct pull-up technique: use momentum, ask someone to help you or use a resistance band to assist you on the way up.


• Push-ups. Build chest, shoulders & arm muscles. Use a full range of motion: arms locked on the way up, nose against the floor on the way down. Put your knees on the floor if you can't do one push-up. Switch to regular push-ups when this gets easy.


• Squats. Build leg muscles. Put your hands behind your head & bend through your knees. Keep your heels on the floor, push your knees out, look forward & squeeze your glutes on the way up. Stretch your hamstrings 3 times a week if you can't squat lower than parallel.

SimpleFit.org has a 3 day a week routine based on the above exercises. It takes less than 90mins a week. Easy to mix with your work, business, relationship & hobbies.