Bodyweight Fitness: IT'S WEEK TWO OF THE HANDSTAND MOTIVATIONAL MONTH! Are you standing on your hands yet? �� We have a great kick up tutorial inside for you! Check in NOW and share how it's going! |
- IT'S WEEK TWO OF THE HANDSTAND MOTIVATIONAL MONTH! Are you standing on your hands yet? �� We have a great kick up tutorial inside for you! Check in NOW and share how it's going!
- My 10 Month Calisthenics journey!
- Anyone else here applies the "flow mindset" as popularized by Faras Zahabi for Fat Loss
- My outdoor setup
- Just did my first unasisted muscle up. WOAH!
- Benefits of taking a week off?
- Sudden drop in reps
- Build neutral grip chin up grips onto basement joists?
- How safe are "shoulder dips"?
- FL pull to inverted vs. FL eccentric vs. FL pull to horizontal
- Switching from Lifting to bodyweight.
- I recently started getting headaches doing pull ups and chin ups after starting to use a weighted bag?
- Is weighted breathing a thing?
- How to work out your forearms?
- Does the size of the pull up bar matter?
- Bicep exercises during quarantine.
- Protein shakes and BWF
- Does the RR work to get more pullups in?
- Supinated hangs?
- What do you think of this Webapp idea for calisthenics?
- Fighters, anyone?
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-05-13
- 100 pushups everyday vs 50 push ups every other day
- Question about volume.
| Posted: 07 May 2020 08:24 AM PDT Hey everybody! 👋 We had a record breaking number of entrants (300+) in the first thread! Very awesome to see such levels of commitment! Hopefully you are working on your handstand little by little by now. And if you're not, we still have 3 weeks left, so hop to it! For this week we are going to be mastering the kick up into handstand!Big thanks to /u/EmmetLouis for the following writeup and /u/handbalancer for the videos, both of who are from handstandfactory.com. The Kick up to handstand is a complicated skill consisting of two distinct phases that can almost be considered separate movements. The rest of this post will be broken into the following sections:
Phase One: The half kick up drill
The goal of the half kick up is to go from standing to inverted with the legs split somewhere about 90 degrees. The goal for this style of kick up we propose is to get to this point and then be able to change direction with the legs, e.g. moving to a straddle handstand or cobra or any other shape. The gathering the legs section (phase 2) is just one of the options once this shape is under control. Placing the hands:
The Legs:
Shoulders and arms:
Chest:
The Kick:
The Balance:
Phase Two: Gathering the legs
Kick Up Therapy
Other EntriesIf you have proficiency with the straight leg kick up, and you're looking for something new to try, here are some more ideas: Now it's time for you to please CHECK IN and answer the following questions:
If you are getting annoyed by any lack of progress, don't be! It's only been A WEEK! The strength and flexibility will come! And if you have any questions, feel free to ask. For Future Reference:
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| My 10 Month Calisthenics journey! Posted: 13 May 2020 07:27 AM PDT What's up everyone! I've want to share my new update on my Calisthenics transformation it's been around 4 months since I've last posted here! Time period: 10 months Training type : Calisthenics Cardio : Running, Swimming, Cycling, Box, HIIT and some circuit training as well Training schedule: Calisthenics: 3-4 times a week Cardio: 3-4 times a week Weight lifting (mostly for legs): 2 times a week Pretty much I've did something everyday but it was planned and structured so It doesn't interfere with my progress! Progress I've made! Picture HERE [114kg/251lbs vs 94kg/207lbs] In the first picture I've just started calisthenics and my heaviest weight was 114kg/251lbs. On average I was weighing 110kg. On the right picture (Second one) My weight is 94kg/207lbs. On average I weigh 95kg right now! My transformation was not over since the last time I posted here! And the 4 extra months gave quite the difference! I will keep you guys updated and will see how far the calisthenics will take me! I've increased my strength, endurance, cardio, and my blood pressure is now in normal range because of my weight loss, and my joints are thankful! My blood pressure used to be 170/85 which is bad... very bad even for my age! Now my blood pressure is 135/80 which is not perfect but It's a huge improvement and a lot healthier for my body! My joints are thanking me that I've lost all that unnecessary weight same with my heart! My diet: Pretty much high protein diet 1.5grams of protein per each kg of body weight so when I weighed 100kg I would eat around 150gr of protein a day. My TDEE is around 2300kcal so If I didn't do cardio that day I would eat around 2000-2150 kcal, but If I did cardio then I would add some extra kcal for my body to help with growth and recovery! When you eat clean and check your protein other macros will kinda fall in their place so I didn't complicate things to much. I did have my complex carbs and healthy fats tho (omega 3,6,9) Stats: Age: 26 Height: 1.89m/6'2 1/2 ft. Weight: Before 114kg/250lbs Now 94kg/207lbs Progress in strength and endurance: Pull-ups: 2 to 21 Chin-ups: 5 to 16 Dips: 9 to 30 Pull overs: 1 to 10 Muscle-Ups: 0 to 3 (at the moment I am on journey to learn 5 strict muscle-ups) I've learned archer push-ups I've learned one arm push-ups I've learned archer pull-ups I've mastered pull-overs I am lot more comfortable with L-sit My previous background: Is lifting weights mostly power lifting style 3-5 min rest with 3-5 rep range and 3-4 sets of each muscle group It did help my with me weight loss cause I've already had quite the muscle mass so I was able to afford to sacrifice some of that mass! Even though I was very careful and had very slight calorie deficit 100-350 Hopefully this motivates someone and if you want to see more of me just type ElvisLifts on YouTube. If you have any questions feel free to ask me! I do have everything on video so these are not just random numbers every single thing I say has proof! My form is not perfect and I am very aware of that nobody has perfect form from the very beginning it takes time to develop good form and over the course of 10 months my form in all exercises has improved tremendously! [link] [comments] |
| Anyone else here applies the "flow mindset" as popularized by Faras Zahabi for Fat Loss Posted: 12 May 2020 10:30 PM PDT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fbCcWyYthQ&t=159s 2:20 mark he talks about how he does jumping jacks and hit the bag for a couple of rounds and once he gets his "high" from exercising, thats when he shuts it down. I know he's talking about MMA but its a good train of thought for fat loss as well. Basically he says that in training, one should never seek soreness/fatigue that may lead to injury to a point that one wouldnt make it the next day. To be honest, I like that mindset and thats something that I apply in my jump rope quarantine workout. When you think about it, it makes sense: if a fat person goes through hell in a workout that'll hinder him/her to train for the next day 2 days, that's 2 training sessions missed and chances are the person would never wanna do it again. However if a fat guy goes through a workout just enough to make him feel accomplished, chances are he'll keep coming back to it the next day thus forming a habit. Also, when you think about it, when you eat, you dont eat to a point that you make yourself vomit or have difficulty standing. Once youve reached the feeling of being full, thats when you stop. Same logic in exercising, once youve feel "high" already, thats when you shut it down. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 May 2020 04:08 PM PDT Hey everyone, Wanted to share my setup thats about a month old. Like everyone else I've always flirted with calisthenics but would say 80% of everything was just weight lifting. I'm still struggling to come up with great routines. This subreddit has been a help, but I'm looking forward to hearing from others. Edit: Probably should have included this on the original. But I based my design off of a video from imuscleup. I didn't do everything the same but its probably the most complete video I found. [link] [comments] |
| Just did my first unasisted muscle up. WOAH! Posted: 13 May 2020 11:07 AM PDT So, a little background. I was doing bodybuilding for about 2 years or so. However, since all of the gyms in my area got closed I had no other option but to do calistenics. At first I was pissed off because of that, but then I remembered that I used to dream of doing the muscle up when I was a little kid. So I decided that I'm gonna learn the muscle up during this quarantine. At first I tought that it's going to be easy and I will propably get my first muscle up in about a week or so, but boy was I wrong. It took me 2+ months to get to where I am right now. I started off with doing unassisted muscle up work, but I soon realised that this propably wont work out for me. This led to me buying a set of 4 resistance bands. From there I started practising my muscle up technique with the bands. At first I couldn't do a single rep with both of the heavyest bands (45+35kg resistance). But I never gave up. I worked my ass of. And today is the day that I was looking forward for so long. Until this day I haven't maneged to do a single muscle up without assistance. But as the title says, today I finally did it! I did 5 sets of 2 muscle ups each! Also while training for the muscle up I increased the max number of pullups, dips and pushups I can do! So yeah, that pretty much sums it up. I'm also not stopping my muscle up training. I will be training them more and more and hopefully I will soon get to 10 reps in one set. Or even more? Only time will tell. Take care boys and girls, and remember you are as big as your dreams are, so dream big and work your ass of! [link] [comments] |
| Benefits of taking a week off? Posted: 13 May 2020 08:47 AM PDT Good day, So ever since the Quarantine happened I've transitioned from weight training to bodyweight fitness. I've made some decent results so far and have been training fairly consistently. But lately I noticed I haven't been performing well and started developing a bit of pain in my joints. This happened in the past and I'd just keep on going but as I grow older I need to take step back before it grows into something worse. Would it be beneficial to take a week off? I haven't trained in 4 days and feel a bit....."off" but from your guys experience is this weird feeling normal and were you able to get back to training without issues? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 May 2020 08:41 AM PDT Hey guys, I have been training ring MuscleUp for 1,5month and two weeks ago I could easily do 4reps my bodyweight and 3 reps +10kg. Now its third session that I can do barely 2 with my bodyweight only. I train every other day in push\pull splits. Any reasons why my max rep suddenly drop? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Build neutral grip chin up grips onto basement joists? Posted: 12 May 2020 10:36 PM PDT I am holding off on buying a doorframe pull up bar because it won't ship until possibly after I move from this rental (in July), but I want to at least start doing neutral grip chin-ups. I have very thick, very rough/unfinished joists in the basement that I could use to screw something into. I was thinking if I could just get two wood dowels somehow affixed to a joist it could work. Has anyone done anything like this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 May 2020 08:38 AM PDT Read some conflicting opinions about dips where you lean your upper body forwards and your lower body backwards. Someone people say they're good for targeting shoulders, other say that it'll just put additional unhealthy strain in an already shoulder-heavy exercise. What is your opinion? Can they lead to long-term injury or are they safe? [link] [comments] |
| FL pull to inverted vs. FL eccentric vs. FL pull to horizontal Posted: 13 May 2020 07:24 AM PDT I'm trying to figure out if one of these is more beneficial than the others in my training. One one upper body day I'm doing Advanced Tuck FL pulls from a tucked deadhang to inverted. The other upper body day I'm doing Advanced Tuck FL eccentrics - going from a hold to inverted and slow eccentric back to hold. Is it necessary to go all the way to inverted on my FL pulls? Should I instead just pull to horizontal, pause in a static hold, and back to a tucked hang? Out of these three dynamic movements are there two that are clearly superior? Thanks for your help! [link] [comments] |
| Switching from Lifting to bodyweight. Posted: 13 May 2020 01:23 AM PDT Hi, so I have been lifting for 4 months now, and I saw great improvement in my body shape. My muscles are getting bigger and I get a lot of compliments now,but my weight isn't really going up, which is actually why I started working out in the first place, adding mass weight... Today I decided to try doing some bodyweight exercises, like pull ups, row pull ups, dips and stuff, and my biceps, triceps and back felt amazing... So I was wondering if I should move to body weight or continue with lifting for a while, or just mix them up? What do you think guys? [link] [comments] |
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| Is weighted breathing a thing? Posted: 13 May 2020 11:45 AM PDT So I just got bored and put a 110lb sandbag on my diaphragm and breathed for a while. I feel like it's working my breathing muscles. Will this maybe make me be able to breathe extra hard or something? The breathing muscles are muscles so I should be able to grow them right? [link] [comments] |
| How to work out your forearms? Posted: 12 May 2020 03:05 PM PDT Are there any bodyweight exercises that mainly target forearms? After three months of bodyweight workouts under lockdown, my whole body is starting to show progress except my forearms. [link] [comments] |
| Does the size of the pull up bar matter? Posted: 13 May 2020 10:56 AM PDT I'm about to head to a park where I can do pull ups and follow the BodyWeightFitness workout routine, but the only thing is that while I will still be able to do pull ups I won't be able to wrap my hands on the bar per say like a fist? [link] [comments] |
| Bicep exercises during quarantine. Posted: 13 May 2020 09:56 AM PDT Hey guys I'll make this post pretty short. Before quarantine I was working out on a 6 day split (all weights, barely any body weight). Here is my predicament, I was steadily gaining one pound a month with a strict diet, but my main problem now is finding a way to workout my biceps, everything around me has dumbells, barbells and pullup bars sold out (checked online too, amazon, walmart, etc..) people on craigslist are selling one 30lb dumbell for like $150-$300 (I'm a broke college kid). I've been stuffing an old suitcase with stuff and curling it but beyond that any advice? Thank! :) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 May 2020 08:39 AM PDT Is it a good idea to drink protein shakes while doing body weight fitness exercises? I am a beginner as I started going to the gym again a few months ago but due to lockdown and closures I have had to improvise. [link] [comments] |
| Does the RR work to get more pullups in? Posted: 13 May 2020 07:35 AM PDT Hi I just started The RR, just a quick q: I can do 8 negatives or 6-8 chinups or 2 perfect form pullups. My bar is low and I hate that I cannot hang freely... Will the RR make me get better at pullups? I now did 8 negatives and 8 archer/ scapula and than at the last 8 reps I did 2 pullups ( 1 was crap...) and 6 negatives. How does that ever make me get more in??? Tia [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 May 2020 10:51 PM PDT just some thoughts on hanging from a pull up bar with a supinated grip. beneficial? avoid? [link] [comments] |
| What do you think of this Webapp idea for calisthenics? Posted: 13 May 2020 12:31 AM PDT Hi guys! I've been working on a Calisthenics Webapp for some time now and would like to share it with you and get opinions. Basically you put your workout (completely customizable, you can even add your own non-Calisthenics exercises if you use them) into the website, you tell it the number of sets for each exercise and you write the rep range (for example 5-8 means that you start at 5, go up one rep every workout until you get to 8, then up the progression). Then it takes care of all the planning for you and you can just train instead of always thinking how many reps you did last time or if you're doing the correct progression. So, what do you think? Would you use this website? What can be improved? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 May 2020 06:09 AM PDT Hi, how many of us do any kind of martial arts? I do muay thai, and i first started lifting weights to add that bit of muscles i thought would help me. Now here i am trying to learn all these fancy skills, but deep down all this started to increase my punching power, and still fighting fitness is my real goal [link] [comments] |
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-05-13 Posted: 12 May 2020 11:06 PM PDT Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread!
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| 100 pushups everyday vs 50 push ups every other day Posted: 13 May 2020 08:55 AM PDT Which of the two will give me the most muscular gains? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 13 May 2020 12:04 AM PDT My goals are fat loss, and since I'm new to strictly body weight I feel recovery is quicker compared to lifting weights. I'm a little unsure however where to start as far as frequency and volume goes. I'm pretty strong on basics. I have done +100lbs attached on chin-ups and dips for reps and it's humbling trying out some new stuff like ring dips and towel chins where I struggle. Although ring dips have gotten a lot easier compared to 3 weeks ago where I couldn't do 1 and today I did +50lbs for 6. Anyways I'm looking for a little guidance on where to start. I would say my goals are the following: Aesthetics, which is diet related. Not sure what else I should focus on. I have a pull-up bar, rings, and push-up bars. [link] [comments] |
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