There are many different reasons for using bodyweight exercises for increasing strength, but these five reasons are considered by many to be the most important.

No fear, no excuses.

Anyone can do bodyweight exercises to build strength. There are exercises to meet every fitness level from beginner to advanced.

Think you don't have enough energy to exercise? Take just ten minutes to add a few bodyweight exercises to your day for one week, and see how fast you increase your energy.

Think you don't have time to exercise because you travel or work long hours? You can do bodyweight exercises anywhere, even when traveling. You don't even need to pack anything special.

You don't have spend a lot of money or leave your home.

You don't need to purchase an expensive gym membership or purchase expensive equipment for your home. Bodyweight exercises may be done at home in any room of your house. You can even do them with your children. Go outside, do them on the patio, who knows, you may get a neighbor involved to cheer you on or as an exercise partner.

Worried about what you may look like at the gym? Out of "shape?" Not accustomed to exercising? Don't have the "right" clothes. None of that matters when using bodyweight exercises to gain strength. Wear whatever you like, forget the make up and hair and trying to compete with the person next to you by doing bodyweight exercises.

Rent DVD's with bodyweight exercises instead of hiring a personal trainer. Save the money that you would spend on expensive equipment or trainers and by some things that you really want - like new clothes to show off your new body.

Variety is the spice of. . . bodyweight exercises.

Bodyweight exercises are never boring. There are several tried and true exercises familiar to everyone, but with so many different variations in technique, position, leverage and resistance exercises. There are over 100 different types of push ups that can be done. Not only do these variations in bodyweight exercises increase strength but they keep even the experienced exerciser from becoming uninterested in exercising regularly. The more interested in your bodyweight exercise you are the more likely you are to do it consistently.

Bodyweight exercises for strength are safer and cause fewer injuries than other forms of exercise.
Some other forms of muscle strengthening can cause injuries. Quite often these injuries occur in the forms of sprains, strains, and injuries to muscles, tendons, ligaments and joints. The form and technique of bodyweight exercises actually strengthens your tendons and ligaments, building overall body strength not just muscle.

Benefits to your whole life, not just your strength, through bodyweight exercises.

- Your body is physically fit, and attractive.
- Your stamina, flexibility, and endurance are increased.
- You can achieve results in by increasing your circulation, lowering your cholesterol, and making yourself "heart-healthy."
- You will have more energy.
- You will have more time to do the other things you want to do.
- You can add to your enjoyment of life.

It has been quite a common occurrence to encounter people who have invested lots of their precious time in abs training and yet, have not seen any visible improvement in their abs area at all. This phenomenon is due to the fact that they have either choose the wrong ab exercises for their workout or have worked too much on the same workout exercises.

Having an effective abs workout program is essential in helping you get the 6 pack abs.Choosing what ab exercises should you do and deciding how intense your abs exercise shall be is what constitutes of an effective abs workout program.

Therefore,in this article, I will be covering on what abs exercises should you do and how intense should your exercises be.

Exercise Selection.

A common myth of abs training is you should work your “upper abs” and “lower abs” separately. However . the truth is that, you can’t separate working these muscles as they contract simultaneously during any ab exercises.

If you are going for agility , you will need to focus on decreasing your base of support as much as possible. In other words, you will need to focus on ab exercises which requires you to stabilize your ab muscles while doing it. In this way, your muscle fiber tissue will be worked on most effectively, giving you the most workout possible.

Some ab exercises that require stability are as follows :

1) Abdominal work on an exercise ball
2) Twisting work standing on a bosu ball
3) Partner work with medicine balls.

If you are going for strength and are using weight, you will need to execute movements that require you to move through a large range of motion. By doing this, your ab muscles can be strengthened from the greatest angles possible.

Some good ab exercises for strength build up –

1) Decline sit-ups
2) Cable cross-bends

An important point to take note about abs exercises :

Our body has an extremely high adaptation ability towards any exercises. Once your abs muscles have adapted itself to a particular abs exercises, the abs exercises wont be as effective as before anymore. Therefore, we will need to introduce variability in our abs exercises for our abs workout program.Hence, Abs exercises must be changed on a regular basis if you want to see results fast.

Intensity of abs exercises

The intensity of abs exercises varies from individual to individual. Knowing what volume of abs exercises is needed for you brings you a step closer to getting the 6 pack abs.

Bear in mind that  the weight lifted during training is indirectly proportional to the total reps you do. In other words, the more weights you use the fewer reps you should be doing.

If your objective is agility, two or 4 sets of weightless abdominal works will be enough ( with each sets limiting yourself to the 10-15 reps range )

On the other hand, If your objective is strength, you should be doing weighted abdominal training. Therefore, you should be going for fewer reps ( 3-6 reps range ) and increasing the number of sets to 6 to 10. This would be enough to have some good muscle size growth.

Exercise is defined as the performance of some activities that develops or maintains the physical fitness and health in general. Regular and keenly done exercise is very important component that can prevent some of the diseases.

Latest researches say that exercises have great positive impact on almost all the diseases. Whether it is done as Yoga or as physiotherapy, exercises makes a human healthy and free from diseases.

Types of Exercise

There are various types of exercise but broadly it can be classified in three main categories. These include flexibility exercise, aerobic exercise and anaerobic exercises.

Flexible exercise includes the activity such as stretching. It improves the range of motion of muscles and joints. Aerobic is something like cycling, running, walking etc. Aerobic exercises concentrate on increasing the cardiovascular endurance. Anaerobic exercises are exercises those increase the short-term muscles strength. This includes weight training, sprinting and functional training.

Benefits of Exercise

There are lot many benefits of doing regular exercises in a proper manner. Exercise keeps the body in shape and hence, maintains the physical fitness. It can contribute to maintain perfect weight, healthy bone density, joint mobility, muscle strength and reduces the surgical risks.

There are so many researches proving the role of exercises as effective treatment in some chronic major diseases like hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, insomnia, depression and obesity etc. Exercises improve the overall blood circulation in the body which is very much required for proper nourishment of each and every cell and tissue of the body. Exercise is also said to be neuro-protective in many neuromuscular and neurodegenerative disorders.

Hazards of Exercise

On the other hand, exercise if done wrongly or improperly, it can bring worse effects on the body. There are some diseases in which, some of the exercises are contraindicated. For instance, a heart patient should not do any heavy exercises like weight lifting and running fast. During exercises, the muscles consume more energy, fats and carbohydrates and hence, they are to be fed well. If the nutrition or food intake is not proportionate to the exercise, it can weaken the body.

Too much exercise can be also harmful. The body part that does the exercise needs rest in between the exercises. This is the reason why some of the health experts advise to do exercise every alternate day or thrice a week. Without proper rest, there will be chance of stroke in the brain or in the heart. It can also affect the blood circulation that may end up in alteration of blood pressure.

One should not increase the exercise suddenly; it takes time for body to get accustomed. Start with light exercise and then over the times, keep on increasing the quality and quantity of exercises.

With proper diet and regimen, if exercises are done in safer mode, it can build the physique with better immunity. Regularity in exercise is equally important part to gain maximum benefits and simultaneously regular gaping is also required to avoid the hassles created by over-exercising