127: Mike Fitch: How To Build Muscle Without Weights
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2015
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you'll learn:
- What is functional training? The real definition.
- Bodyweight VS Lifting
- Motivating kids to be active
- How to prevent and recover from workout injuries
- How to maximize strength and size with bodyweight exercise
- How to achieve longevity
- How Mike's journey into fitness got started
- How to use weights with bodyweight training for superior results
- How much a disaster recovery can cost you
- Getting down with animal movements
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| 0:00.0 | If you've been listening to the Legendary Life podcast, then you know that I'm on a body weight training mission. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm not using barbell squats or |
| 0:15.0 | deadlifts or even kettlebells or anything like that it's all body weight |
| 0:19.6 | training and there's a big reason for that. I've noticed more mobility, more stability in my |
| 0:25.3 | joints and increased strength and also the ability to train more frequently and to develop |
| 0:32.0 | a different skill-based type of strength than I would with other traditional |
| 0:38.2 | implements like bar bells, dumbbells, kettlebells, Bells, Sandbags even. |
| 0:43.3 | And the reason why I'm talking to you about that |
| 0:46.0 | is because today my guest on the Legendary Light |
| 0:49.2 | podcast is Mike Fitch. |
| 0:51.6 | Mike is the creator of global body weight training and the animal flow system. |
| 0:57.0 | And I've actually gone through Mike's level one animal flow certification and I'll tell you I was really impressed with the |
| 1:05.0 | structure with the programming with the types of exercises and also the |
| 1:09.4 | benefits of doing it in fact I spent two days learning all the different movements in the |
| 1:15.3 | level one class as well as putting them together into flows and Mike's here |
| 1:19.8 | today to talk about his journey of body weight training and how he used to be a guy who was |
| 1:25.8 | 50 pounds heavier and muscle-bound and in pain and now he's leaner and actually stronger than he used to be through practicing animal flow, |
| 1:36.0 | hand balancing and all these other types of body weight-based training systems that he's |
| 1:42.0 | trained in and also put into a system that he's going to |
| 1:46.2 | talk about today and I'll tell you something this is a big part of the future of |
| 1:50.7 | exercise body weight training because it's the best way to bio hack, if you like that term, your exercise. |
| 2:00.0 | Because instead of using weights you use physics principles of physics to |
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