Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-09-12 |
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-09-12
- Slip Up Saturday (Chaturday): This is the thread to vent, laugh, and humble yourself with this past week's screw ups in training. You can also tell us all about it on our Discord chat!
- What is your favorite form of cardio, and why?
- Reps to failure
- Underrated beginner core video (deadbugs)
- Differences in bars and grips?
- 5 months RR progress
- [Review] One month with the Baseblock's Basebar
- What to learn?
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-09-12 Posted: 11 Sep 2020 11:06 PM PDT Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread!
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| Posted: 12 Sep 2020 01:46 AM PDT Welcome back to the thread where no matter how new or adept you are, we can all take a moment to embrace the shortcomings that come with this journey, finding ways to improve together. If you've got a photo or video of yourself face planting from a handstand, doing a muscle-up into a low ceiling, or simply want us to sympathize with your lack of resolve in training consistently, this is the thread for you! Be sure you are familiar with the rules, particularly #2: No Medical Advice. So how'd you goof this week? Tell us about it! Share your epic fails! Click here to view last week's thread Click here to view previous Slip Up Saturdays. ADDITIONALLY, Saturday is the day we promote our chatroom, which we maintain throughout the week. There, you can find some of our active subscribers lounging around ready to provide real-time answers to your burning questions, or make friends with a common interest in bodyweight fitness! Follow the instructions below to get started: Step One: Click on this link to join us on Discord. Register for an account if you don't already have one! Step Two: Say hi, bullshit with us, or ask any questions you like and tell us how much you deadlift. [link] [comments] |
| What is your favorite form of cardio, and why? Posted: 11 Sep 2020 10:40 PM PDT Do you like running? Cycling? Swimming? Basketball? What cardio do you feel like you benefit from most? And why? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2020 03:03 AM PDT I'm doing a bodyweight workout regimen that has you do reps to faulure in major muscle groups in a 3x a week with 2 days off after the 3rd workout rotation... my muscles aren't recovered by the time the next workout comes around on the 1 day offs. Usually that first day off I am tight and need to do a lot of stretching ontop of whst I did the day of the workout. What do you all suggest? Workout to faulute again with whst will be instwad of lets say 20 reps, maybe 5-10 or rest more. [link] [comments] |
| Underrated beginner core video (deadbugs) Posted: 11 Sep 2020 06:24 PM PDT I just started following some of the recommendations from this sub, and needed to get my core stronger to progress. I've seen a lot of people suggest doing deadbugs to strengthen a weak core, so I took that advice. I love this youtube video that doesn't seem to have a lot of attention on it... I've done it for two weeks now, and even though it's so short I'm feeling a substantial difference in my core, and will probably move up to more difficult exercises here soon. I just wanted to share for any other beginners out there. This is not my video, credit goes to the person who posted on youtube, I'm just sharing something that is working for me. [link] [comments] |
| Differences in bars and grips? Posted: 12 Sep 2020 07:15 AM PDT Fishing for thoughts, opinions, things to think about when it comes to different set ups for pull-ups. The three things I have some access to are - Traditional straight pull up bar - Separated Angled grips that are more typical of large scale gym equipment (the ones in my apartment complexes gym are angle like a V but not such a drastic/neutral angle and separated obviously). They also have ones that are angled more like the an A without the cross bar that you can use for under grip. - Rock climbing grips. Wide enough for 3.5 - 4 fingers, not deep enough to get the palm involved. could face either direction to use and under or over grip What are the tradeoffs here? what experiences have you had with each style? what is your preferred style? are there advantages to mixing it up between these? Personally, I prefer the traditional straight bar, then the rock climbing grips, then the angled grips. I feel like the angled grips put me in a position to roll my shoulders forward rather than retracting my shoulder blades. The rock climbing grips I like for the greater grip strength focus, especially for things like leg raises. Thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Sep 2020 11:26 AM PDT https://imgur.com/gallery/ftRQTIk I am 23 y/o male, 183cm 85(estimate, when I started)->81 kg I first started Bodyweight fitness in April during lockdown with the AthleanX home workout video (https://youtu.be/vc1E5CfRfos) together with a 100 pushups/day challenge I gave myself. Sadly I didn't weight myself when I started but around new year I was at 87kg and definitely really lost some fat (especially in the chin area) in the first weeks when I started working out and tracking calories in April. Last weight was at 81kg. Beginning of June I than started the recommended routine from this sub as I could go to Gyms again. Improvements: Pull- ups: 3x8 Arch Hangs to 3x5 chin-ups. Dips: 1-2 dips -> 3x8 dips Push-Ups: 3x8 push ups -> 3x8 forward leaning diamond push ups Been very happy with the routine and actually very surprised by the results. I have always been eating healthy and cooked a lot therefore my nutrition did not change massively. In the First 2 months I tracked my calories closely in MyFitnessPal and lost quite a few kilos. Now I would like to lean bulk but did not get a great habit yet. I try to keep the habit of eating healthy with a bit larger portions and I try to really keep an eye on protein intake. [link] [comments] |
| [Review] One month with the Baseblock's Basebar Posted: 11 Sep 2020 07:36 PM PDT I've seen a few posts asking about the bar and other pull-up bars, apartment setups, etc. and figured I'd share my unbiased feedback after 4 weeks with the Baseblocks Basebar. I have no correlation to this company and paid for the bar. I'm just pretty bored. For those asking shipping/ordering questions in other posts, I ordered mine on August 7th, it shipped the same day and I received it 4 days later. I live in the Pacific Northwest. A little background to my fitness; skip this paragraph if you don't care. I started rock climbing at 15 and took it pretty seriously. I competed in bouldering competitions through college, managed the college gym, coached, etc. Most of my workouts were climbing-focused but a lot were spent on pull-up bars and gymnastics rings. That was years ago, but I've stuck with climbing moderately over the years and maintained a lot of form and skills. Covid hit and I quit exercising entirely, ended up working way way more than I was while working in-office, quit eating breakfast/lunch and lost a ton of weight. It hit a tipping point looking in the mirror and I was searching for ways to get back in shape without ruining my walls/door frames and ordered the Basebar from an Instagram ad. I am 5'6" with a +3 wingspan. I am pretty skinny and usually sit around 135, but recently have dropped to about 122. Eesh. The bar came in a pretty huge and flat box within another box. It comes in three pieces with a small bag holding 4 pins that are used to lock the two arms into the main U-bar. The T-legs(?) have a plastic cap on the top that inserts into the U-bar to keep it secure. It was a little hard to insert the plastic at first and I shaved a tiny bit of plastic off while trying. I got worried and emailed the Contact Us which happens to be the company founder directly. I asked if I should be worried or remove them, but he said it gets easier over time. After a month, I can confirm it does. The legs line up with 2 vertical holes on each side that the pins go into. They are solid quality and I wouldn't worry about their structural integrity at all. When setup, the bar is pretty solid. When L-sitting on the ground reaching for the bar, it's about 4-5 inches above my reach. I can imagine that the model on the website is probably ~5'9" as I think this bar may have limitations for people who are quite a bit taller. The bar is a little wider in-diameter than most pull-up bars I've ever used and is much closer to a gymnastic parallel bar width. When pulling up hard, the bar could wobble a little bit, but not too much. I have been focusing on static movement and it stays steady on padded carpet. Additionally, I paid the $20 for their workout program to go along with it. It is a pretty in-depth manual that starts off with the methodology behind their techniques, the repetitions, suggested reps, rest periods, and why. It's nothing that you couldn't find easily throughout this subreddit but was a good quick read and affirmation that the team thought this through. They have Intro, Beginner, Inter., and Adv. 4-6 week programs with suggested reps, rests, intensities, and comes with log sheets (all of this is digital) you can print out to track your reps. It does more chin-ups than I have ever done previously, and a lot of reverse rows. I've changed my diet at the same time and have noticed great results after 4 weeks. The progression to front-lever is well-paced. My methods in the past have either been lowering into it from inverted-vertical on rings, or just throwing for it. This seems to be much smarter. I'm using a foldable piano bench for my feet support, but a chair, couch, whatever would work fine. I have been working on a modified version of the beginner program as I'm stronger in some areas than others. In flipping through the program, I can tell it is strongly focused on front levers and variations of them. I've been able to do them in the past, but never really worked them consistently or as thoughtfully as this. I'm enjoying the pacing to build core strength and can already tell I'm progressing quite a bit. TL;DR The bar has been worth it for me. I didn't want to put a bar in a door frame and I can tuck this out of the way. The program is nice, but I'll probably create my own or switch to one of the bwf programs after 6 weeks of the intermediate program. I like the grip, the quality is good. It isn't incredibly quick to extend/lower, but it's fine. I look forward to using it in tandem with climbing trainers (SoIll wood holds). It's a great apartment solution and I'd recommend it to anyone looking to have a pull-up bar with additional uses/options. Slight wobble on carpet if moves are more dynamic/aggressive. 4/5. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Sep 2020 02:00 PM PDT Hi, I switched to mostly bodyweight training about a year ago and got into handstand training - now I can max out around 8 free standing hspu, and 3-4 deep hspu (chin past hands). My question is, where to go next in terms of pushing exercises? Would appriciate any tips! [link] [comments] |
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