Talk:Bodyweight exercise

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Untitled
SMA11784 00:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC) Created page. I'd like this article to be as robust as weight training when finished.

Just plain bad
Lots of things wrong. For example pull up obviously uses the biceps which isn't on the back. The back isn't one muscle. This article (and many more) could be improved by ripping off exrx.net —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.75.129.195 (talk) 13:49, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

I added a bunch of new exercises but didn't take the time to explain them all —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.199.100.34 (talk) 19:36, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Add descriptions?
Can you add descriptions when you get a chance? Never heard of a lot of these... :) Trai dep (talk) 22:09, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

isokinetically?
"The more experienced athlete, however, can use increased mind muscle focus in order to amp isokenetically ramp up the intensity of the exercise." say what? could we get this explained a little better? is isokenetically even a word? what's that mean? 75.66.221.181 (talk) 11:30, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Weight variation
The weight DOES change as the practitioner's weight changes, although generally weight alterations come from unrelated exercises (bulkier legs won't make squats harder, bulkier arms will, and bulkier chest and arms won't make pushups harder, bulkier thighs will). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 32.155.156.72 (talk) 04:16, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

Merging
Rather than merging this with Calisthenics, couldn't we move just the explanations of body weight exercise to Calisthenics, then change this to List of Body Weight Exercises or something so Calisthenics can link to it to avoid getting cluttered?69.114.87.51 (talk) 23:31, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * If anything, calisthenics should be merged here since it is the more specific term. This isn't a list, just a few examples. For a list, see the category. ··gracefool&#9786; 17:58, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Star Jumps and Lunges aren't "Body-Weight Exercises", Lunges are Stretching and Star Jumps are Cardio/Aerobic Excercises
 * Body-Weight Exercises, as the name implies, are Weight-based Exercises
 * Calisthenics are Stretching (Warming up and Cooling down) and Cardio/Aerobic Exercises (Basic Training Exercise)
 * -- 115.64.47.34 (talk) 04:17, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
 * You said the same thing at Calisthenics so I responded there. ··gracefool&#9786; 20:51, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Major Revisions Planned
Hey Wikipeeps. I'm hoping to do some surgery on this page to get it cleaned up, improve the quality of the information presented and bring it up to the level of weight training as was SMA11784's vision. Ideally, I'd hope to fix the following items at a minimum: Thoughts? -- Crispy8888 (talk) 19:30, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Clean up the Advantages and Disadvantages sections as they contain lots of elements that aren't specifically advantages nor disadvantages, but discussion on increasing/decreasing exercise difficulty.
 * Clean up, re-organize, clarify and add to the list of bodyweight exercises; most importantly move the list of exercises out of table format and into proper sections. I wonder if it's worthwhile creating List of bodyweight exercises to declutter this page - that way Calisthenics can reference the list as well. I as well think Calisthenics should be merged here but perhaps it's worthwhile to leave it as a separate article for disambiguation, if nothing else.
 * Resolve and add citations where necessary.
 * Bring in externally cited general discussion on bodyweight in general.

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