Be Well: How to Use Your Own Body Weight to Build Strength 

<div class="block">Building strength at home and without equipment isn&#39;t as challenging as one might think. In the fitness segment of Cheddar News&#39; beWell, we&#39;re showing you how to build strength by using your own body weight. </div>

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OK, this is Spin city. So when people think of it, they think of high intensity cycle classes, but you're actually more than just that. They love how you're using the environment here. So we're gonna take this, we're gonna get off the bike, you do a 30 minute ride and then we're actually using this mainstream here. How lucky? That's so awesome. Ok, so this is a boot camp style class, full disclosure. I am a coach at this gym, but this is not my class. This is all Lisa. I love it. So we're grabbing these resistance fans. You've got to hook them to a light post and what we're gonna squat just a little bit. OK. Step back just a little bit and then you're just gonna row right into the side. Yeah, right here. So this is gonna be one of the intervals that we're gonna be doing. And so everybody comes out of the classroom and right away starts working on their, we're gonna have like maybe five or six stations available depending upon how many people are in class. Hopefully it should be full. I love it. So this will be the first one and for anybody at home, even if you're, you know, walking, jogging, whatever it is on a main street, that's something really easy that you could just bring with you and use. But I also love how you use this. I know they're right here right in front of our studio. So how cool is this? So, uh, another one of the intervals that we're gonna add is gonna be triceps. OK? And you know that on the bottom when you wave goodbye, you don't want it to keep waving when you're done. Bad muscle. So we're gonna, we're gonna set ourselves up here. Yep. You're gonna walk your feet out just a little bit, make sure that those elbows are back and then we're just gonna dip down and then push ourselves back up, just focusing on that tricep. And now do you go for time or are you? So what we're gonna do is we're gonna be doing one minute rounds. Um, and then we're gonna do a little jog down the block between each round. Oh, yeah, we're really moving and grooving the whole time. I love it. Yeah. Ok. Great. Because cardio is amazing, but it's also important to add in the strength. Absolutely. And we have so many members that just spin and I know they need a little bit more than that. That's why we wanted to add something like this during the summer, right? While we have the great weather to do. Ok. So the next move we're gonna do, we're gonna do a step up. OK. So we're gonna like swinging your arms just a little bit just to catapult us up. So we're up and then down. Oh, ok. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Oh, look at you. I like what you added. You can tell you're an instructor, Elizabeth. Can we add? You wanna teach this? I do this. Yes. Let me try. Here we go. Ok. Now we're working and now after this we have to go running. Yes, we do. I'm not sure if we're friends anymore. This is great. Thanks so much. Excellent job.