My Distinction Between
Bodyweight Exercise
And Calisthenics Exercise

I make a distinction between bodyweight exercise and calisthenics exercise.

Bodyweight Exercise

Bodyweight exercise is any exercise using only the weight of your own body as resistance to develop strength, power and/or endurance.

The upper body, core and lower body can be targeted for improvement... and often more than one section of the body will be involved in the proper completion of the movement. 

Calisthenics Exercise

By combining bodyweight exercises and calisthenics exercises into a comprehensive, step-by-step PLAN, you can systematically and simultaneously improve muscular strength and endurance, heart and lung power and burn off unwanted fat. Progression means you will get stronger, leaner and more athletic looking every day... and enjoy the performance benefits that will allow you to live life to the fullest! Click here to learn more about the step-by-step PLAN for the gym you were born with... and start improving today!

Calisthenics comes from the Greek kalli meaning beautiful + sthenos meaning strength... Beautiful Strength.

A modern day definition is any systematic, rhythmic bodily exercise performed usually without apparatus... or a type of exercise using explosive movements to develop muscular strength, power and/or endurance.

I have purposely separated bodyweight exercises and calisthenics exercise because while both forms of exercise can be used for the improvement of strength, power and/or endurance... calisthenics exercise can be used to effectively target the cardiorespiratory system and burn fat as well.

Using this distinction you can better target your bodyweight calisthenics training... bodyweight exercise strength training or calisthenics exercise cardiorespiratory training.

When I talk about bodyweight calisthenics exercise... I'm talking about both.

The great thing about combining bodyweight exercise and calisthenics exercises is you can get an excellent body transforming workout that helps you perform, feel and look better in a short amount of time!

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Coach Eddie Lomax is the founder and president of the Optimum Fitness Network, and author of the best-selling ebook Workout Without Weights: Bodyweight Calisthenics Workout Progression System.

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