8 Best Bodyweight Exercises Ever (HIT EVERY MUSCLE!)

Build muscle with just your bodyweight (no equipment at all) here!

With so many bodyweight exercises to choose from, picking the 8 best was certainly a challenge. That said, in this video I show you the 8 best bodyweight exercises you can do and how you can cover all the major muscles in your body with them. Most bodyweight workout routines are nothing more than glorified aerobics that cost you lean muscle while doing them. This doesn’t have to be the case. If you choose the right exercises and follow the proper progressions and regressions, bodyweight training can be just as effective at building muscle as any other workout.

The 8 bodyweight exercises that were chosen are as follows:

1. Pullups - The pullup is one of the best back exercises you can do, even if you have access to a gym. Should you want a challenging alternative, I show you how to mix up your grip and perform the Commando Pullup for an even more intense back exercise with the added benefit of working your forearms and biceps.

2. Chin Up Knee Up - This exercise hits the biceps and abs equally hard as it breaks down the chinup into two parts. If you’re looking to get more out of your bodyweight exercises you have to put more in them. This is a perfect combination movement that helps you to kill two muscles with one move.

3. Slick Floor Bridge Curls - This posterior chain exercise hammers your glutes and hamstrings and happens to be one of the most intense bodyweight leg exercises you can do for this area. In fact, this exercise is as challenging as most weighted glute/ham exercises you’d have at your disposal if you were training in a gym.

4. Levitation Squats - Time to hit your quads with this awesome lower body no equipment exercise. By positioning your leg behind your body you make it easier to perform this single leg killer without having your balance be your limiting factor (as it may be during the pistol squat). Be sure to keep your back foot raised off the ground to keep the work on the front leg only.

5. Divebomber Pushups - You knew there would have to be a pushup variation in this list of 8 best bodyweight exercises in order to hit your chest. That said, this dive-bomber version hits your chest, shoulders and triceps equally hard at different points in the range of motion. Add the one and a half rep style for an even more advanced challenge.

6. Mule Kicks - This is a perfect bodyweight conditioning exercise that also puts an overload on your shoulders. Think of it as a closed chain plyometric bodyweight shoulder exercise that crushes your stamina at the same time. Sound fun?

7. Kickthrough Burpees - On this channel, we train like athletes. There may be no more athletic version of the burpee than this one, and that is why I love it. This is yet another bodyweight only movement that will challenge your upper body, lower body and core while pelting away at your ability to breathe.

8. Front Lever - Finally, the challenging front lever exercise lands the last spot on the 8 best bodyweight exercise list. Don’t worry if you can’t do it yet, you will. Just work your way up to it using a resistance band if needed.

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Time stamps for workouts
1. 0:45
2. 1:48
3. 2:39
4. 3:23
5. 4:22
6. 5:26
7. 6:25
8. 7:00

[Trueshiz]

I love how he tells what's up in the youtube videos so you don't have to buy his books or training videos. Earned a sub from me because you can tell he is actually trying to teach and cares about others exercising.

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0:51, classic pull-up
1:31, core pull-up
1:55, chin-up knee-up
2:45, body floor bridge cruel
3:25, levitation squat
4:26, dive-bomber push-up
7:04, front lever

[TheFuryHasCome]

All 8 Bodyweight Exercises In Video

1. Pull-up/Commando Pull-ups
2. Chin-ups & Knee-ups
3. Slick Floor Bridge Curls
4. Levitation Squats(Lead in to Pistol Squat)
5. Divebomber Push-ups
6. Mule Kicks
7. Kickthrough Burpees
8. Front Levers

[Albinosarlz]

Thank you, Jeff ! I am a 21 y/o jobless student with no money for a gym and I moved into a very small apartment. The bodyweight exercises you are posting recently are really helping me out !

[armitage]

Those biceps have a guy attached to them.

[alexb]

I need this in these corona times since my gym closed down

[aa-gtfb]

I call the dive bomber pushup the camikazy pushup because when I go down, I don't get up

[sebp]

Jeff is great at marketing. Repeating "If you want to be an athlete, you gotta train like an athlete" is a good mantra. Inspiring.

[brendan]

whos here because corona got your gym closed

[IanDunlap]

This is one of the best compilation of home exercises I have seen :)

[Likeafoxow]

Watching up until 7:00, I was like, man I can do all of these. Then the front lever showed up and I was like wut.

[alanrodriguez]

Jeff really is the most knowledgeable trainer on Youtube. Keep grinding Jeff

[TsunamiSid]

You are awesome! I've been a trainer for 2 decades and running out of exercises for my Advanced In Home Client but thanks to you, I just learned 4 bodyweight exercises for her! Thanks man!

[JORDAN-vdjg]

Waiter:- which chicken part do u want
Jeff:- *rotator cuff*

[spatnaspolecnost]

slick floor bridge curl - I just painted half of my room with my back sweat xD thx

[nicholastaranto]

Best glute exercise in your ARSEnal
huehuehue

[VoidMySoul]

He sounds like a more articulate sylvester stallone


Edit: changed “literate” cause now I’m smarterer

[athleanx]

Put away the equipment (well, hang on to that pullup bar) as I walk you through my 8 best bodyweight exercises.  Train every muscle and get that heart thumping with this carefully selected list.  Showing you once again that bodyweight workouts don't have to be inferior workouts!

#bodyweightworkout   #bodyweight   #fitness   #fitnesstips   #exercise   #exercisetips

[theodoro]

I will totally try all of these exercises. Thanks Jeff :)
(i cannot do the last one though... which is a nice challenge)