When completing my exercise programs, or anyone else’s for that matter, it is inevitable that you will come across certain exercises that you can’t do.

This may be due to a number of reasons. The most common reasons being a pre-existing injury that you may be managing; pelvic floor issues; an exercise is currently too difficult for you; or, you might not have access to a particular piece of gym equipment.

Therefore, when you encounter an exercise that you can’t do, I recommend you either:

One, swap the exercise you can’t do for an exercise that you CAN DO that TARGETS THE SAME MUSCLE. For example, squats instead of lunges; dumbbell chest presses instead of push ups; or,

Two, modify the exercise to it’s easier version if this option is available to you. For example, push ups on your knees instead of on your toes.

Just don’t quit.

If you can’t do an exercise it doesn’t mean you should quit and stop the entire exercise program completely.

Simply modify the exercise and do what you can to the best of your ability, and you will still achieve awesome results.

When training clients, the most common modifications trainers need to make within workouts is adjusting or modifying body weight cardio exercises. Due to this, I have created the following two videos in case you also need to modify or replace any of your body weight cardio exercises.

Check them out now – and please forgive me for the quality of these videos. They were the first videos that I ever made and I was extremely uncomfortable talking in front of a camera. So please forgive me. However, the exercise options are still relevant and will give you an awesome selection to choose from.

Enjoy.

The following video will give you a collection of 50 cardio exercises that require minimal equipment or no equipment at all. Therefore, if you can’t do an exercise within any of the workouts, please change this exercise for any of the body weight cardio exercises that you can do.

If you can only do low-impact cardio exercises, the following video is for you. It contains 22 low-impact cardio exercises that require minimal equipment or no equipment at all so that you have a collection of low-impact cardio exercises that you can choose from.