I think I may have invented a new body weight exercise for burning fat. I didn’t set out to invent it but it happened nonetheless. And the interesting thing is that it will not force you to find any extra time to perform it. It left me feeling as if I had a great workout and I believe I burned quite a few calories in the process.

Let me describe how it happened. The last couple of days it has rained quite a bit where I live. In fact, it poured for most of the weekend. Yesterday (Saturday), I went to watch my son play baseball at college so it left only Sunday to get my grass cut. Unfortunately, it rained most of the day. Finally, I was able to get outside in the late afternoon to cut what was a pretty wet yard. But when you have only certain times to get it done you need to take advantage of what you are presented with.

Now I am cheap. All of my neighbors have riding lawnmowers. I do not. I still give it a go with my old standby push mower. I have no intentions of changing either. I don’t have a huge yard. It normally takes me about 45 minutes to an hour to cut my grass.

Well when I went out to cut the grass about halfway through it began to rain lightly again and dinner time was just around the corner. So I had the great idea of jogging while cutting grass. My 17 year old daughter was watching through our large window that overlooks the back yard and was laughing at her dad looking rather weird running with a lawn mower.

Now this is not something you would do everyday unless you want to run with your lawnmower off through your yard each day. If you do that then your neighbors may wonder what caused you to go crazy. But jogging while cutting grass is quite challenging. Your heart rate will elevate and I guarantee that you will burn quite a few calories and burn fat in the process. Since you have to cut grass each week anyway you may want to give it a try. If you have a riding lawnmower then maybe you want to put it away every now and then and break out the push mower. It will provide you a great workout and burn some fat in the process. You will even get your grass cutting duties done quicker. Give it a try.

I was reading the other day (can’t quite remember where) and the individual who was writing the article made mention of the fact that the football team that he played on in college dreaded the bodyweight conditioning exercises most of all because they took so much out of you.

Just yesterday, I took the day off and made a 90 minute trip to watch my son play baseball for his college. While I was sitting in the bleachers watching the game I heard a soccer player from his college talking about the burpee exercises that they had to do for conditioning. They were extremely tough.

You can get a tremendous workout from bodyweight exercises alone. They are some of the most effective exercises for shedding fat and losing weight as well. Below is a sample workout that I will be performing tomorrow for my bodyweight conditioning segment.

Perform 5 rounds with about a 1 – 2 minute rest between each round. Within the round you should not have any rest between exercises. Move from exercise to the next.

Burpees (10)
Mountain Climbers (15 each leg)
Squat Jumps (10)
Atomic Push Ups (10)
Knees To Elbows (10)
Tuck Jumps (10)

In case you are not familiar with tuck jumps, knees to elbows or an atomic push up then you can watch the videos below. If you do not have a TRX suspension trainer then you can substitute 15 – 20 push ups for the atomic push up.

Tuck Jumps

Knees To Elbows

Atomic Push Up

People are worried that bodyweigt exercises may not provide the individual with gains the gains in muscle, strength, and endurance that can be provided through other means of exercise such as weight lifting or cardiovascular exercise. But this is not true. Not only can bodyweight improve on these things but it can help burn fat effectively as well.

The nice thing about bodyweight exercises is that you are not forced to get an expensive gym membership. You can perform them anywhere. You can do them in the comfort of your own home. You can do them in your backyard or in a park. You can do them in a hotel room if need be.

The military still understands the benefits of bodyweight exercises and uses them as the primary form of exercise and conditioning. If it is good for them it will be good for you as well.

Bodyweight exercises have the ability to raise your heart rate and in doing so to burn more calories and burn more fat in the process. They give you the ability to build muscle while working the heart to a great degree. Weight lifting, although, greatly beneficial to build muscle lacks greatly when trying to keep your heart rate up. There is often too long of a wait time in between weight sets to keep your heart rate up. On the other hand, cardio has the ability to elevate your heart rate but it does absolutely nothing for building muscle. In fact, a lot of cardio exercise will actually decrease muscle rather than enhance it.

One of the benefits of bodyweight exercises is the time that it can save you. You don’t have to perform weight lifting exercises and cardiovascular exercises. All you need to do is perform a circuit of bodyweight exercises to accomplish the same result in less time.

So if you have never considered doing bodyweight exercises before give it a whirl and see what you think.

I have a health club membership (although I am not sure why other than it gives me someplace warm to perform certain exercises in the winter) and I watch in amazement how people can show up week after week and never lose fat. It is kind of sad. They are paying their money faithfully and they get on the treadmill or elliptical machine and go through the ritual. But at the end of the week when they step on the scale the numbers are all too familiar. It is no wonder that they give up after a couple of months.

If this has been you, I am here to tell you that it does not have to be that way. You do not have to train with weights and you do not have to do cardio for an hour a day for seven days a week. You do not have to spend $40 per month on a health club membership. You do not have to embarrass yourself by stepping on some goofy BOSU ball.

You are frustrated and you are not sure where to turn. If you have trainers at your gym like I do at mine you probably don’t want to ask them because it is quite obvious that they haven’t practiced what they preach. They are not exactly the image of thriving fitness and you surely don’t want to pay them extra for their “expertise.”

Maybe you are like me and your body is now suffering the effects of weight lifting and your joints are no longer capable of lifting heavy weights. Or possibly you have tried every fad diet known to humankind and you still are disgusted every time you look in the mirror.

You have tried everything else now why don’t you try what actually works. Instead of going to out-of-shape “personal trainers” at your gym why not lean on the expertise of someone who has been in the fitness industry for 30 years. And by the way, he has the physique of someone who has been in the fitness industry for 30 years (lean and mean).

Emile Jarreau has created the Naked Commando System of exercises that you can do at home, in the park, behind closed doors in your office, or even in your hotel room while you travel. If you want to see fat begin to melt away with as little as 3 intense workouts per week then this is the program for you. You will build strength, increase endurance, increase your metabolism and improve your heart with his time-efficient circuit workouts.

You will avoid boredom in your workouts as he keeps it spiced up with 69 challenging and dynamic body weight exercises. Your stamina will increase, you will begin to understand the meaning of the word slim again and you will cut a major chunk of stress out of your life.

He will provide you with complete fat burning workouts with instructions, pictures and everything you will need to be successful. And you can get all of this for less than what you are paying for one month at a health club. I could describe it in detail for you but he does it so much better. So click on over to learn more about Naked Commando System.