How to Do Squats on a Balance Board

If you want to add some difficulty and intensity to your exercise routine, try doing some of your exercises using a balance board. This video demonstrates how to do squats on a balance board, but you can also do push-ups, lunges, mountain climbers, and other exercises.

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6 Ways to Make Push-ups Harder

Push-ups are a great exercise, but beyond a certain point (20-30), you shouldn't try to make progress by doing more of them. Instead, make them harder. Parth of At Home Intense Workouts suggests six ways to make push-ups harder.

... Here are a couple of other ideas to make your pushups harder:

Stability Ball Pushups
Get into pushup position with your feet on a stability ball. Perform the pushup. This is a tough variation, especially if you have poor abdominal strength. To make the movement easier, place your shins on the ball. Read more

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Are Push-Ups Necessary If You Have Access to Free Weights?

Rusty Moore explains why bench presses should supplement push-ups in your workout, not replace them.

People who have trained in the gym for years often look at something like the simple push up as a beginner's exercise. I mean, why would they want to perform push ups when they can get a "real" chest workout with heavy sets of bench presses. This is a big mistake, and one that I have been guilty of. It is easy to look at the simple push up as working the exact same muscles as the bench press, but with less resistance. I would like to talk about why you should include the push up in your routine, even if you are someone who trains with free weights. Read more

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How to Use Push-ups to Build Muscle Mass

Former NFL great Herschel Walker was a mountain of solid muscle, yet he never lifted weights. Instead, he did push-ups. This push-up program, which is similar to what Walker did, allowed the writer to gain 15 pounds of muscle mass in three months. If that doesn't pique your interest, you have no idea how hard it is to put on that much muscle in that short a time.

Having spent many years doing many different workouts involving weights, cardiovascular machines, and calisthenics, I determined that the best way to build mass and boost metabolism is by doing pushups. Lots of pushups! After less than three months training, I was able to complete a one-thousand pushup routine in exactly 80 minutes. I gained 15 lbs of solid muscle mass, lost a considerable amount of body fat and consistently ate 5000-6000 calories daily. Read more

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Can Women Do Bodyweight Exercise Workouts?

Women tend to believe that bodyweight exercise workouts are too hard for them to do. Of course, that is completely wrong. This video shows a woman doing a bodyweight exercise routine that a lot of men couldn't do. These exercises take some time to work up to, but isn't working hard to improve what it's all about?

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Upper Body Strenth Training: Workout

This video shows a workout that can be done to strengthen the upper body; however, it is not for beginners. The exercises include:

Pseudo-Planche Push-ups, Planche Push-ups, Full Planche, Straddle Planche, Tuck Planche, One-Arm Assisted Handstand Push-ups, Dips Press-ups, Chest Dips, Ab Crunch, Shoulder Press, Handstand Human Flag, No-Feet Push-ups, No-Legs Push-ups, and Balance.

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