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Your body can be a portable gym: how to ditch membership fees and expensive equipment
The Conversation, Vol.13 October 2025
2025
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Abstract
You don’t need a gym membership, dumbbells, or expensive equipment to get stronger.
Since the beginning of time, we’ve had access to the one piece of equipment that is essential for strength training – our own bodies.
Strength training without the use of external forces and equipment is called “bodyweight training”.
From push-ups and squats to planks and chin-ups, bodyweight training has become one of the most popular ways to exercise because it can be done anywhere – and it’s free.
So, what is it, why does it work and how do you get started?
Details
- Title
- Your body can be a portable gym: how to ditch membership fees and expensive equipment
- Authors
- Dan van den Hoek (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Sports & Exercise ScienceJackson Fyfe - Deakin University
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.13 October 2025
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.svxfrfmvw
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- © The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991183444902621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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