Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-03-20 |
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-03-20
- Welcome Coronavirus/COVID19/Pandemic Survivors and Avoiders
- Why can i bench press my bodyweight but not do a single push up?
- CaliMove has made a great introduction to home workouts with bodyweight, for newcomers to at-home training, this will be a very good and easy introduction to get you started!
- Need Advice - Workouts for the Morbidly Obese
- What bodyweight exercises and movements can help me activate weak and asymmetrical erector spinae muscles?
- The Handstand Factory Handstandcast Episode 2: Coaching Handbalance
- I've Made a Grease the Groove Template for anyone to use
- Diamond pushup challenge, tell me your scores!
- Advice on my recently started workout routine.
- Greasing the grove or burning out chin ups for better hypertrophy?
- Does anyone here follow Yuri Marmerstein's Physical Philosophy Project?
- An amazing oportunnity(rant)
- Can I use any Caliper to measure body fat %?
- Recommendations for pull up bar that hangs off a doorframe?
- Why do i see so many mixed opinions on ab rollers?
- Beyond the novelty workouts - What's an *actual* advantage we can get from this confinement situation ?
- Help me fix my knee
- Form Check Friday for 2020-03-20
- Sturdy Mobile Pull Up Bar
- Help me break out of this...
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-03-20 Posted: 19 Mar 2020 11:06 PM PDT Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread!
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| Welcome Coronavirus/COVID19/Pandemic Survivors and Avoiders Posted: 11 Mar 2020 07:21 PM PDT Welcome to r/bodyweightfitness. We have seen an influx of people looking to avoid the gym during these interesting times, so here are a few shortcuts for you.
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| Why can i bench press my bodyweight but not do a single push up? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 03:33 AM PDT hi everyone, due to gym closure because of the virus i have to start a homeworkout. been training for 8 months now and bench press my body weight 5x5 yet found out today i cant do a single push up, i had to do them on my knees ( got about 11 reps)is this common or odd? i do full range of motion on the bench and slow tempo. just feels embarrassing to be honest. way back at university used to do 15- 20 in a row i recall Male/5,8/195lb [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2020 10:45 AM PDT Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR1fnR9yREU Following the hullabaloo with my review of Jeff Cavalier's home workout video, several comments in the thread asked 'ok well what video should I be watching to learn what to do?' or 'why dont you stop trashing our poor lil jeffykins without giving a better option?'. Most individuals were directed, as usual, to the sidebar which is a great resource and full of useful info for people. I was scrolling through youtube today and I just happened to find this video. My review of Jeff's program also sparked a little debate about marketing ethics in the fitness industry and whether practices employed by individuals such as Jeff that I personally consider detestable (clickbait, fear mongering, misleading titles) are justifiable in the endeavour of making a living as a fitness youtube content creator. Personally, I have no desire to continue the debate on that specifically as I've made all my views clear in the last thread, but instead would like to give example of a really high quality, non-clickbait, very informative video by Calimove (one of the better channels among the youtube fitness cohort imo). This alone is all you should need to see that the way Jeff markets his content is not 'just how it is' to make money. Because Calimove are also in the business of fitness youtube for a living, and they provide useful free information while they can also advertise their paid content honestly and earnestly, as you see in this video. They do it without manipulation, scare tactics, or clickbait titles. Most importantly, you'll notice they've released a home workout introduction guide without even once opportunistically leveraging the coronavirus media scare frenzy as many other youtubers have, and are producing honest, useful and really well filmed content. As much as I don't like 'youtube fitness', these guys are a pretty exemplary example of how to do it right in my opinion. This video provides a basic introduction and guide to all the basic bodyweight strength, mobility AND endurance exercises (for all of you with varying goals, finally!) to help you get started, and actually provides some interesting ideas for equipment substitution that I had never considered before. Particularly, the rows using the tops of the chair instead of just using a broomstick across the seats (as they also demonstrate). Hopefully members and self-isolating newcomers alike will find some utility from this video. Once you've used that as an introduction to the concept and maybe have trained like they outline at the end of the video for a while, have a look at the sidebar and maybe even see if you can incorporate some things from the RR into your training too. Ultimately the program they outline isn't too far off the RR anyway in a general sense. Let me know what you think, Nick-E [link] [comments] |
| Need Advice - Workouts for the Morbidly Obese Posted: 19 Mar 2020 06:06 PM PDT Alright y'all... I have a friend coming over in a few hours to work out in my garage. I've known him for > 10 years, but have never worked out with him. After college, he got into a very sedentary line of work and has gained a significant amount of weight. He's gotta be 6'3" and north of 500 lbs. This guy was a stud defensive tackle in high school and likely would've gone division 1 before multiple knee injuries. Point being, he's not a stranger to a weight room, and putting in the effort. Obviously, the main thing for him is going to be diet until he can bring his weight down to something far more manageable. But I can tell you right now, he's gotta start working out in some fashion so that he has something to build off of and motivate him to eat right, otherwise he won't maintain. I have a very basic setup in my garage. Dumbbells. 15 - 65 pounds. No kettlebells right now, but I'll be picking some up in the near future. No pull-up bar. I have a gorilla mat that I can lay out for ground work stuff, if there's ground/floor exercises that you'd recommend. What recommendations do you have for exercises that someone who is morbidly obese can do, if any? Jump rope, pushups and situps are probably not manageable at this point, given his weight and knee injury history. Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2020 10:51 AM PDT I figured that I would work on addressing my "mind-muscle connection" and work on my coordination during this stretch of home exercise. I tend to engage and activate my left set of erector spinae and glute muscles during heavier compound lifts like squats and deadlifts. As a result, I have a lot of chronic soreness on my lower left back. I can generally activate my left core muscles much easier than my right, and have been doing side planks and side plank modifications as a result. I have trouble unilaterally firing my right erector spinae muscles at all. What asymmetric and single-side focused bodyweight exercises could target that area and force me to isolate those erector spinae muscles? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| The Handstand Factory Handstandcast Episode 2: Coaching Handbalance Posted: 20 Mar 2020 04:38 AM PDT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTRc_8iRuqI The Handstand Factory guys Emmet Louis and Mikael Kristiansen released their second podcast yesterday about coaching the handstand but also being an effective coach in general. Super useful as, any one who knows them can attest, their combined knowledge on coaching is really expansive. Also released on spotify, if you don't want to listen to it on youtube. [link] [comments] |
| I've Made a Grease the Groove Template for anyone to use Posted: 20 Mar 2020 10:31 AM PDT I've made a grease the groove template that calculates everything for you. Then you Open your google Drive and Open it in Google Sheet The good thing about Google Sheet is that it saves after every change you do [link] [comments] |
| Diamond pushup challenge, tell me your scores! Posted: 19 Mar 2020 05:29 PM PDT So currently it's 1AM for me, I usually lift in a gym but with all of them closing in my area I'm bored as hell so I just tried a little bodyweight fitness challenge: Do as many diamond pushups as you can in 10 minutes. Obviously you can choose your own rep schemes and take breaks whenever you want. I personally didn't really have a strategy and just tried to do as many as possible whenever I felt like I recovered from the previous set and I managed to do exactly 65. It would be cool if this community came together to test their strength/endurance, I'd love to get this little challenge going so if you're bored & have the time to do this, go ahead and reply with your score (if you want post a video too)! keep in mind it only takes you 10 minutes :) [link] [comments] |
| Advice on my recently started workout routine. Posted: 20 Mar 2020 12:40 PM PDT Advice please - I've just started a daily workout routine. It's not purely bodyweight, as I have two dumbbells which I recently bought, but I was told by /fitness to come here. Due to working from home, I've decided to get serious about my health, and working on eating healthy and exercising (again). I've been lethargic for the last 10 years, although very active in my 20s. Male / 40 / 95kg (210 lbs) / 180cm (5'11) / dadbod Primary goals are to get my core muscles strong again and building actual strength. On top of this, I do a little jogging 2 or 3 times a week (on the C25K program) Equipment : 1 Yogamat / 2 Variable 10kg dumbbells. 3 Sets - Each set takes about 6-8 minutes, including rest time.
I'm hoping to increase the Reps to 15-20 soon as I get stronger, and increase the weights. It's a pain to change the weights between workouts, so I keep the weights constant. I'm trying to do these exercises first thing in the morning when I wake up, after a cup of black coffee & 2 boiled (ramen style) eggs. QUESTIONS
NOTES
https://www.reddit.com/r/workout/comments/fltuu4/advice_please_ive_just_started_a_daily_workout/ [link] [comments] |
| Greasing the grove or burning out chin ups for better hypertrophy? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 12:11 PM PDT Hi guys. With the onset of the coronavirus, I'll be relegated to my home gym that has a power tower all day. I am wondering the best way to train with it. Since I'm home all day, should I just grease the grove and rack up tons of chin up reps? Or would it be better to do a more traditional 5x10ish reps or something like that at one specific time during the day. Or would doing both serve me even better? My main goal is hypertrophy, with strength being an important goal as well. I don't necessarily care about maxing out the amount of chin ups I can do. [link] [comments] |
| Does anyone here follow Yuri Marmerstein's Physical Philosophy Project? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 12:04 PM PDT This lovely covid lockdown had me thinking about subscribing to some kind of online coaching. I've been following Yuri for a while now and I must say that I really love his 360° movement philosophy So, if you're in his project, what's your opinion? Is it worth it? How's the monthly theme generally covered? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2020 11:54 AM PDT I was tired of unlimited content on yt and so common clickbait videos. Now... I am even more lets say "tired" and their content is getting worse with this "home training" pandemics. Most people want to train, but for whatever reasons, they dont. Now they have the time and energy so they are gonna give it a shot. The problem is they dont know how to. So, imo, this is the best time for the government or other national level sports and health organisation (legaly qualiffied people) to issue an official basic and intermediate exercise courses with the minimal chance of injurie and share it with the people. To create their own youtube channel, issue a manual with videos, app or smth. To be responsible and take a stand to prevent countles possible injuries that could (and probably will happen) when people walk in the darkness of what is yt fitness industry. We see this happen all the time. I dont have the actual data, but most people I know to have exercised have had some sort of injurie. I have no reason to think that this time it would be any different. This is an amazing oportunity to show people how to exercise properly and what effects they can get from it and how it can enrich their lives. Also, to break some of the myths and to teach them that daily exercise regimen does not have to be exausting, expensive and to show them that they can countinue to do it even after this is over and reap the benefits. I dont know whats gonna happen, but I realy wish we wouldnt squander it. I think we will see an even greater profit chase from sellers of home workouts and requisits. But I would like if people would have the chance to access high quality content created by legitimate professionals and not yt fishermen for free. PS: I think that proper exercise regimen should be individualised and tailored to the person in question but even so. We could teach the people the basic principles and maybe, maybe even alter some of the beliefs and set more realistic view and expectations of fitness in general. What do you think? Is it possible? How would you say this could happen? If you have some thought on the matter, I would like to hear them. Thank you for reading so far. [link] [comments] |
| Can I use any Caliper to measure body fat %? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 11:45 AM PDT Sorry if this is the wrong place but the title says it all. I was looking for a caliper and it seems like some are explicitly labeled for body fat % like this oneand other that don't like this one Does it matter which one a buy? Or does anybody have a good recommendation? [link] [comments] |
| Recommendations for pull up bar that hangs off a doorframe? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 11:23 AM PDT Hi all, Due to social distancing etc. I'm looking to work out at home and want to buy a pull up bar that hangs off a door frame. Looking online, I'm a bit overwhelmed by the options. Does anyone have any good recommendations? [link] [comments] |
| Why do i see so many mixed opinions on ab rollers? Posted: 20 Mar 2020 11:22 AM PDT Couple of guys i work out with hold them to high esteem so i did some research, and saw a lot of different opinions on them. I do get good results with movements like plank walkouts... im curious if anyone knows any science which would confirm this doubt... because im feeling like i should have one. Thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 20 Mar 2020 06:54 AM PDT I've seen a couple workouts on youtube addressed specially to those of us who have to remain at home for a couple weeks. Obviously the hype factor means these workout aren't very good, but I don't think this means there's nothing to do to change up a proper routine. The RR, as far as I understand, has been optimized for time and compactness, because it's expected we can't be training all day long. But now, we could ? And I just want to know if there's anything that can be better done while in confinement. Something to take advantage of the situation. For example, I remember seeing a couple of programs designed to be done throughout the day for a specific exercise, like the 100 push-up challenge or this CalisthenicMovement's pull-up program. Maybe the new approach would have you stretching a lot more often rather than focusing on strength. Or maybe it's the occasion to add a bigger diversity of exercises. I don't know, I'm not an expert and am looking for ideas. The end result doesn't need to be "better" than the RR / usual routines per se, just to be a different focus for this limited period. What do you think ? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 11:26 PM PDT Hey guys, so to keep it short: My left knee crunches and crackles when I squat. I think it starts when I reach parallel (total beginner, mobility comparable to a block of concrete) It also cracks rather often in daily motion :( Can you guys give me any good advice or things to try? I read about the patella moving wrong because of muscle imbalance or tightness? Any exercises and tips appreciated! [link] [comments] |
| Form Check Friday for 2020-03-20 Posted: 19 Mar 2020 11:06 PM PDT As always, please give last week's thread a once over for any form checks that could use some feedback. All previous Form Check Fridays Without further ado, please post a video (or if you can only manage a photo for a static hold) of the move you'd like to be critiqued. Your video should be:
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If your form is awesome, consider posting it in the Show Off Sunday thread! If you dun goofed, consider posting the out-take in the Slip Up Saturday thread! Join our live chatroom on Discord! We're also on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 05:00 PM PDT I know that similar questions have been posted to this subreddit before, but I didn't find an adequate answer. Basically, what I'm looking for is a mobile pull up bar that I can place in my garden, but don't need to destroy the soil to do so (by digging holes for the poles for example). It should only consist of a horizontal bar between two poles that are about 2,50m high (and some bars supporting and stabilizing the construction obviously). The whole thing should be sturdy enough that it barely moves and one can perform all kinds of exercises on it. A Pull Up Mate for instance is not sturdy enough imo. But remember - it's still supposed to be portable. Does such a thing even exist? If you have an idea, please let me know. Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2020 03:36 PM PDT Hey everybody, So I feel like this is probably just me but I'm gonna put it out there anyway. I want to really progress on pullups and pushups, and my fitness in general. There are a great number of resources out there even the RR. However, no matter what routine I start I can never stick to something for more than two weeks. I keep getting bursts of motivation out of nowhere but more often than not, I'm just slacking eating junk and getting fat. Today I did a circuit workout where I could barely do 3 pushups and 3 6s negative pullups. About 6 weeks ago, I had achieved my first dead hang pullup and was able to easily bang out 15 pushups but for some reason I didn't stick to it and just stopped working out. Also, recently I've been eating food like it's an activity like I just hang out in the kitchen munching on fruits or sweets or unhealthy shit, I think because of this quarantine lol, but it's so dumb I just hit 180 lbs when I was around 170 ish two weeks ago. I'm guessing my question here is, how can I break out of this on and off thing for good and just get back in shape, and more importantly, actually make these healthy habits that last. [link] [comments] |
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