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Not everybody likes to work out in a gym, not everybody has access to a gym. Even worse, as a result of the current financial climate, some people simply cannot afford a gym membership.

As a result, body weight workouts have become ultra popular over the last couple of years. Notice all the at home exercise gadgets and routines that have flooded the market?

But body weight workouts have a serious limitation: it can be challenging to increase the load and intensity of the exercises since you are restricted by your body weight.

So here are 5 ways to take your body weight workouts to the next level:

1. Slow down the speed of your repetitions: If you are used to doing repetitions at a regular pace, slow down and feel the intense burn. By slowing down the speed, you will pace greater tension on the muscle for a longer period of time.

2. Reduce rest: Your muscles love resting between sets of exercises because it’s when they replenish their energy stores. If you reduce rest periods, however, you will confuse your muscles and increase the strain placed on them. As a result, you will notice better progress from your workouts.

3. Experiment with back to back sets: Back to back sets involve doing one exercise immediately after another without any rest in between. By doing this, you are working more muscle mass per unit of time and also reducing total time under rest.

4. Add partial reps: Once your muscles have fatigued doing a given exercise, keep on going by doing partial reps. This is a fantastic way to completely drain the muscle and accelerate results. The key here is to make sure your form and posture doesn’t deviate even though you are going beyond your limits.

5. Squeeze the targeted muscle at the end of the movement: By doing so, you are adding an extra element of work and you are making sure that the right muscle is being exercised. You see, in addition to increasing intensity, this is a great way to learn how to activate the right muscles.

Now with the 5 tips for increasing intensity, you should be able to take your body weight workouts to the next level. And make sure you act on this information now because if you wait, you just might forget!

Author Katherine Crawford, a Harvard exercise physiologist and former flabby arms victim, is an expert on the absolute best upper arm exercises. Discover how to get sexy and toned arms now by exploring her blog on getting skinny arms.