Do bodyweight exercises count as lifting? Or is it better to pump iron?

Musicgoon · 2018-08-18T15:03:02+00:00

If the house of Gainz is closed for some stupid fucking reason, then bodyweight exercises will do for the day as a fallback.

vandaalen · 2018-08-18T13:44:44+00:00

never been asked here before thanks for this very original question which surely couldn't be answered by just using the fucking search function

SneakyTouchy · 2018-08-18T13:01:09+00:00

Yes and yes.

IndecipherableWonder · 2018-08-18T18:23:14+00:00

You will not get progressively bigger and stronger if you’re not lifting progressively more weight, end of story.

wobbleelbbow · 2018-08-18T21:27:10+00:00

Well you lift your body weight.

whatnololyea · 2018-08-18T13:20:00+00:00

Yes, but you can only get so much with just bodyweight. It's harder to progressively increase the weight you are lifting like a scientist if you only rely on bodyweight.

With actual iron, you can easily track your progress. You can also start lifting weight lighter than yourself if your body is not able to lift its own weight at the start.

This is especially true for those really skinny dudes or really fat dudes.

With actual weights you can also lift beyond your body weight, which is actually a benchmark for whether you are "physically fit" in the lifting world, or so I'm told. I/They could be wrong.

So, yeah, but you can only go so far. Just make sure you are hitting all the major muscles groups, no different from lifting weights. So that means pullups, dips, pushups, and squats/jump-squats.

Title	Do bodyweight exercises count as lifting? Or is it better to pump iron?
Author	ImmortalAl
Upvotes	0
Comments	12
Date	August 18, 2018 12:54 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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