3.30.2007
How Bodyweight Basics Began
It was just over eight Weeks ago when I first got the idea for www.bodyweightbasics.com.
I was sitting at the airport in Cancun Mexico. My flight was delayed and besides my trusty pen and pad of yellow paper to keep me company was a group of some of the finest business consultants in the Midwest.
Getting stuck at an airport has a way of making strangers into friends and over the next few hours we covered a lot of things. I learned a lot about what it means to be a high powered consultant.
They filled me in on everything and I listened very carefully as they told me how they have to travel at least four days out of the week to their clients job sites which are located all over the country.
A consulting gig might last a few weeks or it might last several years based on the nature of the job and who the client is. With a schedule like that, available workout minutes are precious and few.
Besides the time factor, hotel gyms are generally lousy, if there is one at all, and with a new hotel in a new unknown town every few weeks, consistent training is difficult.
They were all very eager to learn how to train but believed it was simply impossible based on the above factors.
And then I said it:
"Did you know that its possible to get in a great workout in a half hour or
less without any special equipment and without having to go to the gym?"
It was like one of those scenes from out of an old west movie, suddenly all outside conversations stopped, every eye was on me with necks craned in my direction wanting to hear how this was even possible.
I went on to explain how bodyweight calisthenics were a very viable option for building health and strength, especially with the kind of busy schedules they had.
They were fascinated, and had never heard of anything like this before. Whats more, they actually knew a lot about training but had never been taught 'how' to train and what I was telling them was making a lot of sense.
The impact of this information was unmistakable and I reasoned that they were not alone - there must be others out there who are looking for other training alternatives besides the ones they had already heard of.
On the flight back I sketched out an idea for a website devoted specifically to bodyweight training and heres a few things I came up with:
A) Bodyweight training obviously has quite an appeal for busy folks who want to stay fit
B) I am a big fan of bodyweight training techniques and have been using them for quite some time.
C) There are so many interesting forms and styles of bodyweight training but I didn't know of a place that collected and discussed all of them in detail. I thought this would make for one heck of an interesting website on its own.
D) I feel that bodyweight training is highly underrated or ignored in a lot of training programs that would especially benefit from them. A new site would be a way to make some of these ideas more well known.
And so, with some creative energy and some elbow grease, the new website is now a reality and I want to thank you for being a part of it.
The tremendous response we have had in the first 48 hours lets me know my thinking was right on track and that always feels good.
In the coming months we will be covering a variety of bodyweight training topics and there are many products that we have in the wings but didnt have time to get on the site before the grand opening.
Please keep your eye on our bulletins page for new announcements and in the
meantime, if you have any kind of question about bodyweight training, heres
the Best place to ask it
I can tell that this is going to be a lot of fun.
Train hard,
John Wood
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I was sitting at the airport in Cancun Mexico. My flight was delayed and besides my trusty pen and pad of yellow paper to keep me company was a group of some of the finest business consultants in the Midwest.
Getting stuck at an airport has a way of making strangers into friends and over the next few hours we covered a lot of things. I learned a lot about what it means to be a high powered consultant.
They filled me in on everything and I listened very carefully as they told me how they have to travel at least four days out of the week to their clients job sites which are located all over the country.
A consulting gig might last a few weeks or it might last several years based on the nature of the job and who the client is. With a schedule like that, available workout minutes are precious and few.
Besides the time factor, hotel gyms are generally lousy, if there is one at all, and with a new hotel in a new unknown town every few weeks, consistent training is difficult.
They were all very eager to learn how to train but believed it was simply impossible based on the above factors.
And then I said it:
"Did you know that its possible to get in a great workout in a half hour or
less without any special equipment and without having to go to the gym?"
It was like one of those scenes from out of an old west movie, suddenly all outside conversations stopped, every eye was on me with necks craned in my direction wanting to hear how this was even possible.
I went on to explain how bodyweight calisthenics were a very viable option for building health and strength, especially with the kind of busy schedules they had.
They were fascinated, and had never heard of anything like this before. Whats more, they actually knew a lot about training but had never been taught 'how' to train and what I was telling them was making a lot of sense.
The impact of this information was unmistakable and I reasoned that they were not alone - there must be others out there who are looking for other training alternatives besides the ones they had already heard of.
On the flight back I sketched out an idea for a website devoted specifically to bodyweight training and heres a few things I came up with:
A) Bodyweight training obviously has quite an appeal for busy folks who want to stay fit
B) I am a big fan of bodyweight training techniques and have been using them for quite some time.
C) There are so many interesting forms and styles of bodyweight training but I didn't know of a place that collected and discussed all of them in detail. I thought this would make for one heck of an interesting website on its own.
D) I feel that bodyweight training is highly underrated or ignored in a lot of training programs that would especially benefit from them. A new site would be a way to make some of these ideas more well known.
And so, with some creative energy and some elbow grease, the new website is now a reality and I want to thank you for being a part of it.
The tremendous response we have had in the first 48 hours lets me know my thinking was right on track and that always feels good.
In the coming months we will be covering a variety of bodyweight training topics and there are many products that we have in the wings but didnt have time to get on the site before the grand opening.
Please keep your eye on our bulletins page for new announcements and in the
meantime, if you have any kind of question about bodyweight training, heres
the Best place to ask it
I can tell that this is going to be a lot of fun.
Train hard,
John Wood
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