Steve Maxwell: A Course in Body Weight Training
This is a course in body weight training: taking classic BW exercises and making them scalable for all levels -- weak beginners right up to very strong and adept athletes. From the weakest to the strongest.
What is it?
This is a course in body weight training: taking classic BW exercises and making them scalable for all levels -- weak beginners right up to very strong and adept athletes. From the weakest to the strongest.
A scalable program, based on the 5-pillars of human movement, consisting of classical exercises, accommodating any level of strength and conditioning.
From your grandma and grandpa to your most-gifted athletes.
Unlike many programs which make progress by incorporating harder and harder variations of exercises, in my program, the same exercises are used, but leverage is manipulated to make each exercise more challenging.
What it isn’t?
- No gymnastics progressions
- No stunts
- No feats of strength --there are plenty of those on the market already.
This program manipulates leverage through the use of partial range of motion (ROM).
How to increase (or decrease) difficulty
Weaker beginners work within the easier ranges of motion, while the more adept work within harder ranges of motion. For certain exercises the upper body is assisted with the legs. All in all, with this program, a splendid workout can be achieved by anyone...at any level.
Unlike many programs on the market, the repetition cadence in my program is standardized so that every repetition is performed exactly the same and you’ll always know how many units of work you’ve performed. Besides standardizing the rep, important safety considerations are in play, and that is directly related to rep-speed. This program is certainly one of the safest programs, from a non-injuring point of view, that one can possibly undertake. One of my main foci is safety, and preventing injury. It is my deep-held belief that a strength training program--such as this--should help prevent injury, not be a cause of injury.
How does it work?
In the exercises sections, there are concise instructions and real world demonstrations of how to perform each exercise. Also included are complete directions how to create your own individual workout program using the 5-pillars.
Also included are three real-time unrehearsed workouts of me coaching beginner, intermediate and adept athlete using this very system.
The opening videos are talking points explaining important principles of the demo videos which follow. I do my best to explain the function and practicality of this system so that you can continue the work yourself.
Step-by-step instructions
Steve defines exercise, then explains the principles of rational training to create your own workouts
Library of exercises
Steve's catalog of 27 most effective, explained in-depth, exercises
Complete workouts
Steve coaches three trainees in real time for example beginner, intermediate and advanced sequencing
Discover 100% safe body weight strength training program that can accommodate all levels without exotic exercises and fancy equipment
Bonus videos
These videos are unreleased and of interest to anyone who likes to train for all seasons and collect Steve’s workout ideas to inspire their own training. These videos will go on sale in the usual way in the next few weeks.
1. Walkabout Workout
I love being outdoors in nature and I especially enjoy walking while doing breathing exercises. One day, on just a whim, I combined my strength training and breathing exercises while out on a walk.
For a long time, I’ve kept it to myself. But, I found it so enjoyable that I decided to share it on video and I hope you can use it to develop your own Walkabout workout.
This is a splendid way to combine two of my favorite activities.
1.4 GB, running time 43:11
2. At-Home Workout w/ Sereta
A workout video that’s been on the back shelf for a while is my At-Home Workout featuring lovely Sereta. I decided to release it because I think it’s valuable for those who are working out at home either by choice or lack of options.
This is a great example of an isometric working using both yielding and overcoming isometrics. Anyone looking to get your girlfriends, wives, sisters, daughters, sister-wives, this is a great video: simple but extremely effective. I’ve had dozens of women make great progress with workouts just like this. A great companion video to Advanced Bodybuilding at Home.
That said, as with all my videos, it is not gender-specific: any man of any age, any place at any time can use this sequence for great results.
1.6 GB running time 36:41
I’d like to present one of my favorite clients. The reason I favor him is because he listened to, and followed, all of my training and diet advice.
“J” is a green grocer outside of New York City. A BJJ hobbyist, he loves open-water swimming and surfing; he’s also a hunter and fisherman.
After revamping his diet and instructing him in the principles of my high-intensity body weight training program, coupled with isometrics, he was able to shed the excess fat he’d been carrying, and gaining physical strength in the process.
When we began, he couldn’t do a single chin-up. We started with leg-assisted chin-ups and isometric chin-up holds on the bar. Now J can pull his own weight with perfectly-executed super-slow chin-ups.
From zero-to-hero, friends.
His stamina in his chosen sport activities has greatly increased, and, most importantly, he physically feels much better and his positivity is unbounded.
