22/06/2026
Bone Health
This overlooked reason how body weight exercise can benefit bone health.
People exercise for all sorts of reasons–to feel strong and flexible, to be healthy for the people who rely on you, or for rehabilitation recovery or to improve your performance in sport.
But deep down one important reason to exercise is to maintain and improve bone density, this is the benefits of exercise which, in most cases never mentioned. It mainly how it can build strength, flexibility etc.
Women more so than men are aware of the importance of maintaining bone density because they are at a higher risk for developing osteoporosis later in life.
But bone health should not be overlooked until it’s perhaps too late to make significant improvements.
With the right approach, bodyweight training can improve your bone health, using load bearing exercises, which can be done with just your bodyweight.
Bone density is one of those things we all know is important on some level, but we assume we don’t have to worry about until we’re older. And then, once we’re older, we assume it’s too late to do anything about it. Also, a lot of people think it’s an issue that only women have to worry about. We need to dispel that myth and work at improving our bone density.
Bodyweight Exercise Routine for Bone Health
While resistance training with weights is a great activity, you don’t need to train with weights to improve bone health. You just need sufficient and progressive load bearing exercise, which can be done with just your bodyweight. Star jumps are great for bone density
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