Weights or No Weights?

That is the question…

Research suggests that, for most people in order to gain strength, the answer is either. Your body doesn’t care if you’re doing a bench press or push-ups since the muscle is agnostic and all it recognizes is tension on the muscle.

With that said, there are some advantages for using weights or using body weight only. To get the best results from your strength workout, aim to exercise your muscle until it’s nearly exhausted in order to get stronger. Studies have shown that if your goal is to get stronger, you can get similar results from either body weight exercises or lifting weights,

Simply put, it’s the effort that counts, not what you are lifting

But if you rely solely on body weight workouts,, sometimes a bit of creativity is required to find ways to progress the effort. For instance: increasing the repetitions, incorporating tools like exercise bands, and finding increasingly harder versions of your exercises.

This is good news for you since our Hot Sculpt Classes and Hot Sculpt with Weights (or Strength & Stretch with blocks and bands) are specifically and creatively designed to solve this progression for you!

Of course, not everybody is doing strength training to get jacked. Some of us just want to age well and stay strong enough to perform activities of daily living without falling or getting hurt. In this case, be in tune with your body and you can always slow down, rest, or stop a few reps short of total failure. You can control the intensity.

Check out our Original Hot Sculpt, Hot Sculpt with weights, or Strength & Stretch (weights or blocks and bands) and up your Strength Game while having so much fun 😀