Don't Settle For One Type
Of Bodyweight Exercise Progression...
Use Multiple Progression!

by Coach Lomax

Progression is the key to successful physical training... because if you are not progressing, your workouts quickly become nothing more than manual labor.

Coach Eddie Lomax

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Most strength programs focus on overload progression... stressing the body above normal capacity by the manipulation of intensity and volume.

Increasing the load increases the intensity, an increasing the repetitions increases the volume.

This is easily understood and applied in terms of weight training...

But What About
Bodyweight Exercise Progression

For bodyweight exercise however, the load is a fixed weight, your bodyweight... therefore, most people only increase repetitions in order to progress.

This single progression approach limits bodyweight exercise progression... often leading to boredom, overuse injury and the abandonment of the bodyweight calisthenics exercise program all together.

Here are some ways to use multiple progression...

Low Intensity to High Intensity
Low Volume to High Volume
Easy Exercises to Difficult Exercises
Basic Movements to Complex Movements
Isolated Movements to Compound Movements
Single Training Methods to Multiple Training Methods
Single Focus Training to Multiple Focus Training
Highly Structured Workouts to Chaotic (Looking) Workouts

Instead of just increasing the number of repetitions you do of a bodyweight exercise... you should strive to increase the technical difficulty as well.

This Push Ups Exercise Progression Method is a good example.

Progression Is Not Necessarily Linear

To properly progress, you need to strike a balance between continuity, progression and variation.

Perform a specific exercise long enough for your body to make physical adaptations, consistently increase the amount of stimulus to promote progress and change the exercises to progressively harder exercises in order to stimulate further improvements.

As you can see, bodyweight exercise progression is not necessarily linear (do more)... but can be more complex (do harder bodyweight exercises better).

You must use your imagination to keep bodyweight exercise progression on track... but there are incredible gains to be made by using multiple progression.

Linear bodyweight exercise progression will only take you so far... but multiple bodyweight exercise progression will enable you to see the RESULTS of your hard work sooner!

That’s right... you will perform, feel and look better faster as a result of multiple progression!

Workout Without Weights uses various

progression methods to keep the improvements coming.

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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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