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Old 09-24-2009, 09:12 AM
 
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Pushups, situps, air squats, burpees, pullups with a towel hung over a tree branch, or shot put tosses with rocks/stones in the backyard.
This is a great list. I would add swinging a sledgehammer or an ax, but if that counts as equipment, I would mimic the movement with the previously mentioned rocks. I would also add bodyweight shoulder press.
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Old 09-24-2009, 10:07 PM
 
Location: Philaburbia
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Walking, walking walking. Absolutely the best free exercise there is.

Check out fitness books from the library. There are plenty of ways to use your own body weight as resistance. Yoga books are great to have as well; the best tell you what the pose is supposed to feel like when done properly.

Use soup cans (or baked beans, even heavier) for upper body weights.

Then there's always "housework, fitness style": Squat, bend, run up and down the steps, reach, twist, lug, pull, push ... The less efficient you are -- "oops! I forgot to run this upstairs on my last trip ... oh well ..." -- the better the workout.
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Old 09-25-2009, 07:57 AM
 
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Drive to an open parking lot and push your car as far and as fast as you can several times.
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