Most weight training exercise isolate only certain muscles, requiring a fairly small portion of body’s total muscle mass, unlike body weight exercise that incorporate many at once.
Sound body weight exercise builds structural balance, a well balance body where the muscles on the front of the body are in proportion with those on the back side. Body weight exercise also use motions that keep the person safe from the many chronic injuries, like joint problems, that come over time with weightlifting and other unnatural exercises which have little functional value in daily lives.
Body weight training teaches a person more than strength building; it teaches the strength building while moving.
The beauty of body weight exercise is that it doesn’t require any equipment to start and the basic moves are the perfect place for beginners, women and endurance athletes who may not have had much strength-training experience.
Body weight exercise