The Best Bodyweight Exercises For Weight-loss!

When we think of the best exercises for weight-loss, sometimes we think of big cardio machines or maybe even slugging out heavy weights until we are totally fatigued. However, some of the very best exercises you can perform to promote weight-loss are bodyweight movements.

The best bodyweight movements for weight-loss are often the most simple for a number of reasons, that being peripheral heart action (PHA), size of the muscle used or even the number of muscles used within each movement.

Our fantastic Unite Fit coaches ensure that within each home workout class, you will perform the most efficient bodyweight exercises elevating your heart rate, so you are always in the optimum zone for weight-loss.

Utilising larger muscles will burn more calories

This sounds simple, but is sometimes overlooked.

The bigger the muscles you use, the more calories your body will expend to perform the movement.

For example, utilising your quads in your legs will require more calories and will increase your heart rate far more than if you were to focus on smaller muscle groups such your calves in your legs.

Peripheral heart action (PHA)

The term peripheral heart action (PHA) means to work and isolate muscles in the top half of your body, then straight after isolating and working the muscles in the lower half of your body, and so forth.

This forces you to pump blood up and down your body (as blood will supply your working muscles with oxygen, nutrition, etc), which your body will find tough, resulting in you over expending calories, which is excellent when optimising for weight-loss.

Compound exercises will burn more calories

A compound exercise is any movement that requires more than one joint to move, resulting in two or more muscle groups being activated.

Our Unite Fit coaches look to optimise compound movements in all of our weight-loss classes, as the more muscles being used in any one movement, the more calories your body will expend to perform the exercise.

Example of compound exercises with a high calories burn:

• Squats

• Press ups

• Lunges

• Walkouts

• Burpies

Conclusion

Bodyweight exercises are fantastic for weight-loss which proves you do not need large, expensive equipment to burn lots of calories at home.

Our Unite Fit coaches ensure that every bodyweight class that is focused on weight-loss will include large muscles being worked, PHA and compound movements, to have you burning calories and losing weight at the fastest rate possible!

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