#477: Combining Bodyweight Training & Free Weights for the Best Results
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Do you include bodyweight exercises in your workouts?
Should you?
Can you maximize results by combining bodyweight training and free weights?
Or should you be married to one?
I've got the answers to all of these questions in today's episode.
Listen and learn:
- Is there a difference between calisthenics and bodyweight training? [1:21]
- Bodyweight, free weights, machines: which provides the best stimulus per body part?
- Neck and traps [1:53]
- Shoulders [8:42]
- Triceps and biceps [12:42]
- Chest [19:18]
- Back [21:41]
- Midsection [25:13]
- Glutes and hamstrings [26:19]
- Quads [29:43]
- Calves [33:17]
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| 0:00.0 | Do you include body weight training in your workouts? Should you include body weight training in your workouts? |
| 0:05.1 | What about calisthenics? |
| 0:06.4 | Is there a difference between calisthenics and body weight? |
| 0:08.9 | And should you combine weight training with body weight and or calisthenics? |
| 0:15.6 | We will address and answer those questions in this episode. |
| 0:30.1 | What's up guys? Welcome to the Renegade Strength Show. I am Jay Farugia. |
| 0:33.9 | I have been doing this as a fitness professional for 27 years at the highest level, |
| 0:38.3 | working with countless men, helping them get big, strong, fast, lean. |
| 0:42.0 | And now that I am 48 years old, my focus is on those things, |
| 0:46.4 | plus doing it with longevity and mind. |
| 0:49.5 | So getting you optimized in every way, physically, mentally, |
| 0:54.1 | and just taking your training, your health, your fitness to the next level. |
| 0:57.8 | And hoping that we ensure that you can do this long into your 80s, 90s, and beyond. |
| 1:04.0 | Now I want to thank everyone who left the iTunes review. |
| 1:06.3 | I want to thank people who shared the show. If you haven't done so, |
| 1:09.0 | I would request a favor of you. If you could do that, that would be awesome. |
| 1:13.1 | Anyway, let's get today to the topic at hand today, |
| 1:16.6 | which is how do we combine body weight training and weight training for optimal results? |
| 1:21.0 | Now, a lot of people think calisthenics and body weight are two different things. |
| 1:24.3 | The exact same thing. People think, yo, I heard calisthenics is great. |
| 1:27.8 | I've been doing calisthenics like it's pushups and chinups, dude. |
| 1:30.7 | It's not, it's just a different name for it, right? It's the exact same thing. |
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