Body Weight Training

This post will be about why I think that body weight training, along with plenty of cardio, is the best form of fitness:

Whenever you workout, you're telling your body what you want it to do. Your body is an amazing tool, and if you tell it to do a task often enough, it will adapt to do that task better. That's why when people lift heavy weights, their muscles get bigger. When they sit in a chair all day and do nothing, the body tells the muscles they're no longer needed.

Body weight training tells the body that what we need to do is move. With enough body weight training, your body will reach maximum efficiency between strength and size. That will translate into you feeling better on a daily basis. The polar opposite type of fitness is little cardio, and a lot of heavy weight lifting. That tells the body that we need to move big objects, not ourselves. That's why you'll find guys with giant muscles that can't do as many pullups as a wirey little rock-climber.

Who is more fit? Indeed the answer may come down to the question of "fit for what". But what we all need to do on a daily basis is move our own bodies, whether it's up a flight of stairs, playing with our kids, or even walking to our car... what we do most is move out own bodies. That's why a proper body weight fitness program will result in you feeling (and in my opinion being) at your peak fitness.