Il parallelo nn è possibile farlo...
Io mi chiedevo solo - terminologicamente - come sarebbe più corretto definire gli esercizi di tipo BW quando applico un sovraccarico.
BWO (Bodyweight overload)
Progressive Overload and Bodyweight TrainingThe number one principle that needs to be understood in physical conditioning generally and strength training specifically is Progressive Overload.
The principle is quite simple to understand. If you want to get fitter, then you need to either do more exercise or work harder than you’re working now. If you want to continue to make progress, then you’ll need to continue increasing either the volume or intensity of your physical workload on a regular basis.
Doing more is probably the simplest concept for most people to understand. If you can add more reps or more sets of an exercise then you will get fitter as a result.
Do more push-ups, more pull-ups and more sit-ups. Run further, work out longer. It’s pretty simple, really, but not necessarily the best way of doing things. I mean, there’s pretty obviously a practical limit to how much more work you can do.
I have trouble sparing more than an hour a day for exercise and I’m a Fitness Professional!
Which brings us to option number two…work harder!
If can run faster than last week, you’ve gotten fitter!
If you take a shorter rest between exercises, then that means you’ve gotten fitter too!
If you lift a heavier weight than last time, you will grow stronger!
If you perform a more difficult variation of a familiar exercise, than that can make you stronger and more coordinated!
This last form of progression, from easy exercises to harder variations, is the most difficult for most people to understand and apply.
A simple example would be pushups. Doing pushups on your knuckles is harder than doing them with your hands flat on the floor. Doing them with your hands close together is harder still and doing one armed pushups is hardest of all!
So, if you want to get stronger in the pushup, it’s actually a bit more complicated than just doing more and more each week (and certainly a lot more complicated than just setting yourself an arbitrary number like “fifty per day”).
Just doing more will build mostly endurance (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and will eventually become prohibitively expensive in terms of time and recovery ability (and there’s very definitely something wrong with that). On the other hand, if you can figure out a way of working up from basic pushups to one armed pushups, you’ll be build a lot more strength and save yourself a lot of time
The main advantage of barbell and dumbbell training is that it has given us a simple and efficient way of increasing the intensity of basic exercises on a regular basis. Put more weight on the bar then you did last time and you know you’re growing stronger.
The only problem is that this method doesn’t always work very well with every exercise. You can strap extra weight around your waist to do chin-ups and dips, but I’ve never managed to figure out a really comfortable way of adding extra weight on pushups (and ab work can get pretty tricky, too).
For those kinds of exercises, you really need to figure out a progression in order of difficulty. Not just from lightest to heaviest or less to more, but from easiest to hardest.
This is a concept that first occurred to me in regards to abdominal training (which I’ll be writing more about in the future) but apparently I’m not the first person to have struck upon the idea.