Fat Loss Tips.

I’ve been training with my bodyweight for over two years. And although bodyweight training is a great way to lose fat in the comfort of your own home, it’s also just as easy to get injured as you would if you were lifting weights. When you lift weights, you need to worry about lifting too heavy, or improper form.

But with bodyweight training, the most common form of injuries are overuse injuries. Overuse injuries, or cumulative trauma disorders, is basically tissue damage caused by repetitive stress and tension placed on tissue over a period of time.

After months of performing pushups, pullups, and bodyweight squats variations, I started noticing pain in my wrists, lats, hips, and knees. Once I started looking into the problem, I realized that the reason I was in pain was that my program did not have enough variation.

You see, pushups, pullups, and bodyweight squats only teach your body to move up and down. Hence, you’re stressing pretty much the same muscle tissue over and over again. And although you may look better, you don’t necessarily feel better.

Overcoming Overuse InjuriesIf you want to continue to lose fat with bodyweight exercises, it’s time to find a solution to your overuse injuries. Even if you’ve never experienced such pain from bodyweight training, it’s a good idea to take some precautions so that you do not experience such a pain.

So, we established that overuse injuries come from repetitive stress on the same muscle tissues over a period of time. So what’s the solution? Start moving your body in different ways. Once I started doing more research, I realized that there are a lot of different ways that you can move your body.

Trust me, overuse injuries can vary from just slight pain to intense joint pain that prevents you from training. And if you stop training for quite some time, you start gaining weight and need to start your fat loss plan all over again. So, lets focus on what we can to do prevent overuse injuries:

In fact, there’s a training system known as Circular Strength Training (CST), developed my Coach Scott Sonnon. CST preaches that there are “6 degrees of freedom” that your body moves in. These degrees of freedom are:

• Heaving — moving up and down
• Yawing — twisting right and left
• Swaying — moving right and left
• Pitching — bending forward and backward
• Rolling — turning right and left
• Surging — moving forward and backward

So how can these CST, 6 degrees of freedom help you? Well, if you choose one exercise that trains your body to move in each of the degrees of freedom, then you’ll be working different muscle tissue. This will prevent overuse injury, give you a better, full body workout, and help you lose fat.