I'm thinking of revamping my workout plan.

[FormerSensei]

Right now, I ONLY do BWEs. I've gained some real strength, but I am constantly hearing from you folks that weight training has some advantages even for Martial Artists. I haven't been in the MA for quite some time, even though I have taken up boxing and am thinking of joining a Kajukenbo dojo real soon.

Here's my idea. I think for three weeks, I will do BWEs for strength and endurance conditioning and for one week I will do weight training.

What do you guys think?

[darkrelevance]

or you could try mixing it day by day instead of weeks. ie monday do weight lifting and tuesday do body weight excercise and so on.

weight lifting excercises are great for both endurance and strength as well.
each has its own advantages.

imo weight lifting excercises can help you gain more strength in the end than body weight excercises because you can only shift your body weight so much.

no matter what angle you're doing pushups at, you only weigh so much.

its up to you, but for sure, incorporating weight lifting into your routine is definitly a good idea.

[FormerSensei]

So, now, would you say that you would actually work out the same muscle groups two days in a row; one day with weights and one without? Plus, how much running do you do?

[HtTKar]

BWE have the advantage of building muscle in that if you're tired from lifting your own bodyweight, your tired throughout the whole day. When your tired lifing weights you can always just put them down. In my opinion its best to mix them together. One way to mix these two together is to start with weights and continuisly lower the weights until your down to using your own bodyweight.

For example, Situps: Start with as much weight on your chest as you can, as you're do your situps. Do as many as you can at that weight and then lower the weight 5lbs and do as many at this lower weight as possible. Keep shedding weight until your doing regular situps. By this time it will be a struggle to do 10 regular situps, and all the work will give you great improvements. Be careful, its easy to overdo yourself. You can do the same with squats, curls, pullups, etc. I dont know if there's a name for this kind of exercise, there should be.