2 of the Finest ‘Hybrid Bodyweight’ Moves You’ve Never Tried

As you no doubt know by now, I’m a big fan of bodyweight and kettlebell training — specifically when they’re combined. I know you are as well. The two go together like peanut butter and jelly; love and marriage; alcohol and bad decisions. It’s a hard combo to beat.

The problem?

All too often, people make one of two mistakes:

1) Too LITTLE exercise variety

2) Too MUCH exercise variety

The truth is you need a healthy balance between the two for the best results. Too little variety and you work your way toward boredom and injuries. Too much and you get frustration and zero progress.

As famous kettlebell instructor Rob Lawrence once said: “I need specificity to get me strong and variety to keep me sane”. Indeed.

The solution?

A little thing we in the kettlebell world like to call “specialized variety” — in other words, doing the same thing, “but different”. An example would be doing two hand swings one day, one-arm swings the next, and double swings on a different day. They’re all still swings, but each emphasizes a different quality that will get you stronger and fitter.

As your training progresses, you can get a little inventive with your specialized variety and exercise selection. And THIS is where the magic really happens, in my opinion.

One of my favorite ways to push your workouts to the next level is to explore exercises and variants that no one (or very few) have done before — chief among them being hybrid bodyweight exercises.

Hybrid bodyweight exercises are moves that you typically don’t think of as traditional bodyweight exercises — like pushups — but still function to get you stronger AND can often make your traditional calisthenics work even stronger as well.

And when it comes to hybrid bodyweight exercises, you can’t beat advanced versions of the basic movement patterns we typically use just for warm ups — The Original Strength Resets.

So here’s a sweet 2-part workout I came up with that combines hybrid bodyweight moves to strengthen every nook, cranny, and crevice of your body as well as a kettlebell complex to wash it all down.

Hybrid bodyweight moves

A1) Elevated Rolls — 10 per side
A2) Lizard Crawl— 10 steps per side
Repeat x 3–5

For reference as to what the moves look like:

Elevated Rolls:

Lizard Crawl:

Give these a try (if you dare!) and let me know how you like ’em.

On that note, if you like training that:

• Gives you more strength than it takes from you
• Improves your stamina and resilience simultaneously
• Powers-up every nook, cranny, crevice, and corner of your Soft Machine

Then you just might like my 9-Minute Kettlebell and Bodyweight Challenge.

As the name indicates, it’s just 9 minutes long, and it’s designed to be done WITH your current workouts — NOT instead of them.

How?

By harnessing the power of your body’s gait pattern (i.e. walking pattern) to unleash the strength ALREADY hidden inside you — via movements like crawling, loaded carries, and more.

Even cooler:

Many find that it actually amplifies their strength in their favorite kettlebell and bodyweight moves, like presses, squats, pullups, and more.

And best of all, it’s free.

How free?

I’m talkin’ freer than the 4th of July, my friend.

Get thee thine own copy here => http://www.9MinuteChallenge.com

Have fun and happy training!

Aleks Salkin