Bodyweight Fitness: Form Check Friday for 2020-09-25 |
- Form Check Friday for 2020-09-25
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-09-25
- How do I prove to my mother that training won’t stunt growth?
- how do I balance the strength and size of my muscles with intermediate lvl strength?
- Losing gains when going to the Army
- Do you have to consciously keep your body weight low to become highly skilled in body weight exercises and calisthenics moves?
- What's a good at home plan someone with severe depression can easily get started doing and maintain?
- Anxiety from exercise
- How to Boost Testosterone and Mitigate Estrogen Naturally
- The Iron cross pushup, something to mix up your calisthenic workout
- How do I not lose strength while being sick?
- Endurance routines
- Need to train for a specific goal - rep speed
- Productive ways of working out?
| Form Check Friday for 2020-09-25 Posted: 24 Sep 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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| How do I prove to my mother that training won’t stunt growth? Posted: 25 Sep 2020 12:59 AM PDT Around 5 months ago I decided to start calisthenics and I've really enjoyed the journey so far, seeing improvements in strength and size really quickly. However, ever since I started, my mother would keep telling me that it will make me stay short (I'm 5ft 5-6 inches @ 17, which is already above average in my country) and "bulky". It doesn't help that she's a medical doctor and believes she is absolutely correct on the issue. Despite the several studies I've shown her, she is more concerned with the "practical" and anecdotal evidence seeing that I have 2 different cousins who started weight training at my age and ended up quite shorter than his sibling. She also points out how short and stocky bodybuilders often are, neglecting the fact that Strongman competitors are often well over 6ft. She also likes to mention that my other friends who are lanky are taller because of their lack of weight training/exercise and that I should be stretching instead. One reasoning she also made was that training "redirects" the body's focus of growing taller to making muscle instead. I could just ignore it but she's been constantly feeding into my height insecurity to the point that I want to be absolutely sure that I can gain a couple more inches while still doing what I love, training. I could probably just wait until I'm older or maybe even train once a week instead but I'd rather make that a last resort. Any citations of anecdotal evidence, studies and even just reassurance is welcome. [link] [comments] |
| how do I balance the strength and size of my muscles with intermediate lvl strength? Posted: 25 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT I've noticed whenever I do a push or pulling motion, my body dramatically leans to the left and whenever I try to put emphasis on the right or use mind to muscle it still leans to the left, I'm at a level where I've mastered the basics of calisthenics but I'm not strong enough to do any archer or one arm movements for any exercises and I don't have dumbbells, any suggestions? [link] [comments] |
| Losing gains when going to the Army Posted: 25 Sep 2020 03:09 AM PDT To any army people out there: How do you keep your gains, or at least not lose too much when going into the army? My example would be the swiss army, which isn't nearly as tough as in many other countries, but nevertheless you don't really have time or the energy to train. After marching for 10 hours, who would still be able to train? I was just wondering if there were any army people here who train calisthenics. Did you lose any progress? How much and how long did it take to get it back? Any other interesting experiences in terms of training? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 04:07 AM PDT Hi there! In a world obsessed with body weight and body image, I always wonder if the amazing calisthenics athletes I see are highly conscious of gaining weight (eg dieting / calorie counting / tracking weight etc). I am slowly trying to improve my body weight strength, and am on the lower end of healthy BMI (21), so this isn't about weight loss advice. In fact I really set the calisthenics community apart from the usual 'fitspo' noise that gets thrown around online. But I do notice that just a couple of kilos added to my frame makes so much difference to my pull up strength for example. Therefore I'm wondering if I should actively avoid any weight gain (muscle included) to improve my performance? What is the usual way of approaching this within the calisthenics / ninja exercise community? Thanks very much in advance! EDIT for spelling :) [link] [comments] |
| What's a good at home plan someone with severe depression can easily get started doing and maintain? Posted: 25 Sep 2020 02:17 AM PDT Basically the title. My depression has really been kicking my ass, I've been gaining weight quickly and it seems like the only thing on my mind is eating. I've recently changed my diet down to two meals of fresh food (usually some simply made beef or chicken, fruits and veggies) with a small snack to stop the pain I get from not eating as much as I used to. I've tried to go to the gym, but when I get there I can only manage to to a few reps on different exercises before I'm completely emotionally drained. I checked the FAQ and didn't find much on how to help this particular issue so I was hoping that I could get some advice from everyone here. I don't have any work out equipment, but am willing to buy some essentials if it means I can jump straight into a work out when I have energy to do it and don't have to struggle fighting an uphill mental battle as well as trying to focus on my workout. Thank you all for any and all advice and feedback, I really want to change my weight and build some self confidence. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 12:20 PM PDT First time posting so sorry if this has already been spoke on, but does anyone get severe anxiety from exercise? Of course I get intense anxiety from almost anything, but recently it has reached the point where I go into panic attacks just from thinking about starting an exercise. Anyone have any ideas as to how to handle this (besides doctors and therapy as I'm starting that stuff up again)? Also for reference my doctor recommended I just really stick to walking until mentally I am ready for stuff again, so I'm just in a rut. Thank you all! [link] [comments] |
| How to Boost Testosterone and Mitigate Estrogen Naturally Posted: 25 Sep 2020 12:17 PM PDT |
| The Iron cross pushup, something to mix up your calisthenic workout Posted: 25 Sep 2020 11:47 AM PDT I have recently stumbled across this form of pushup while experimenting with pushup forms. After I discovered it, I found out that it was called an iron cross push up. I have found very little information on this push up variation online, so I thought this post might enlighten people to an otherwise obscure push up. Iron cross push ups are basically super wide push ups. The idea is that spread out your arms as far as you can, and try to keep you body as close to the ground as possible. In essence, you make a T shape, with only your hands and feet touching the ground. You start with your whole body on the ground, then push yourself up. After this you could either try to hold it, or you can do reps. You can progress the difficulty by moving your arms further and further away from your body, until eventually you are able to do it with completely straight arms. The muscles used are primarily your front deltoids, teres muscles, and rhomboids, and lats (I think). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is how I go about my sets: - 4 sets of max iron cross push up holds (Time on all 4 sets combined have to equal AT LEAST to 1 minute, 30 seconds ~ about 23 seconds for each hold) I am very lightweight, so this might be easier for me. I'd suggest for people who can't hold it as long, to do 4 sets of static holds with 1 minute rest between the sets. Time each of your statics, and add them all up at the end. If for example you got 45 seconds all together, then try to aim for at least that every time, or aim for longer. I have tried doing this exercise in reps like a normal pushup, but I personally feel that the static hold is more effective. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If anyone has anymore information about this exercise and/or its effectiveness/ineffectiveness, feel free to comment. PS: Due to this exercise having very little information online, everything I wrote on this is based on personal experience. If it comes out that this exercise is totally unsafe, or completely worthless/ineffective, then just disregard this post. [link] [comments] |
| How do I not lose strength while being sick? Posted: 25 Sep 2020 10:13 AM PDT I became sick af yesterday and I don't want to lose my strength and muscle by not training for a week. What should I do to maintain as much strength as possible? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Sep 2020 08:39 AM PDT Hi guys, i see a lot of endurance routines on web, like the G.O.D. set, bar barian requirements etc. My question i: how can i use this style of routines? Make less repetiotion to my level and try to make more reps every workout until i get the full routine? Or is better to do all the reps maybe with rests in between and try to reduce the rests untill i get the reps unbroken? Sorry for my english [link] [comments] |
| Need to train for a specific goal - rep speed Posted: 25 Sep 2020 06:40 AM PDT Hello r/bwf. I have a very specific goal I need to train towards. For my country's mandatory military service, I'm applying to be a mechanic in the air force. For whatever reason, the physical requirements are actually quite demanding even for mechanics. I need to be able to do a lot of good quality reps, quickly. In the fitness test, you do pushups and sit-ups, each in a 60 second time frame. For max points, you need 40 pushups/60 sec, and 46 sit-ups/60sec. In the sit-up portion, another person is holding your legs. The third part of the test is distance jump from standstill, where a jump of 2.4 metres is needed for max points. Currently, this is quite challenging. During spring while in quarantine, I managed to get myself up to approx 34 push ups in a row (wasn't training for army back then) but I didn't take the time. I tried the sit-ups recently, and only got about 20 in 60 seconds. I havent even tried the jump. What's the best way to train for several fast, high quality reps? Ideally something to add to my gym workouts. I currently train brazilian jiu jitsu 4x a week, and just recently joined my university gym. (I have been going on/off for 2 years) I usually do nsuns 4 day variant in the gym. I'm 6'1", 195lbs with ok amount muscle. What type of training do you recommend for my goal? I'll (hopefully) be doing some cardio too as its needed both for army service and for bjj. [link] [comments] |
| Productive ways of working out? Posted: 24 Sep 2020 03:54 PM PDT I finally started going to the gym last year, and of course had to stop when corona hit. Instead I've been doing strength exercises at home and going jogging in the forest, as well as hiking every weekend (and I've lost 10kg since the hiking started). The strength training however has not really been going anywhere. Except for the legs, which I attribute to the jogging and hiking. Now that gyms are open again, I'm pondering going back as soon as daily new cases settle on a level I can live with (this is in Switzerland by the way). But something dawned on me: If you earn a lot more at your job than you ever could with any kind of physical labor, then yes, paying to go to a gym and working out after work makes sense. Same if you get to do something you really love doing. But if you, like me, only work an(y) office job just so you don't have to do manual labor but don't earn more than a, say, carpenter, then going to a gym after work and paying to do the manual labor you've been avoiding the rest of the day is a tremendously stupid life choice. Not only are you losing money compared to earning it by doing manual labor instead of paying to do pointless manual labor, you're losing time as well, which is the most precious thing there is. Now working out at home, if you can afford all the proper equipment is a little bit better than going to the gym, because at least it's a lot less boring and you're not really wasting time if you can work out while you watch TV shows you were gonna watch anyway. But I'm now looking for a way to actually do something productive while building strength. Maybe even earn money doing it, but at least build something more than muscle. I'm still not looking to do physical labor all day, especially not the back breaking kind that will kick you in the ass in your 50ies (no construction, thanks), and I'm not gonna become a carpenter anymore at this stage in life. I'd like this solution to still be something one can do after work, or at least only part time. But there has to be something more meaningful one could accomplish while building a nice bicep than lifting dumbbells. Something to show for while training your legs and back than squatting without even teabagging an enemy in the process. Chopping wood? Stacking haybales? Shoveling dirt? All fit the bill somehow, but unfortunately, I don't own a farm. Does anyone have any idea, any suggestion how I might build muscle in a more productive way than mind numbingly repeating the same movements for 5% of my life and even paying for the privilege to do so? [link] [comments] |
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