Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-10-25 |
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-10-25
- Sunday Show Off - Because it's perfectly fine to admit you're also doing bodyweight fitness to do cool tricks in front of people!
- How to get a wild workout?Become Tarzan.
- How to get the one arm pull up.
- How to do the second rep in muscle up?
- I need exercise examples
- 6 months progress and some routines
- Quickier way to get Front Lever?
- Beginner/Intermediate Planche and/or Handstand pushup programs.
- PPL Split layout help.
- How do i become lean and muscly?
- Have you ever seen anyone attempt or successfully do a shrimp flip on gymnastics rings?
- Help making it passed certain calisthenic skills such as; advanced front lever, tuck back lever, tuck V-sit and tuck planche.
- Progress Report: Three Months of Convict Conditioning-ish Training
- If needed, can you seperate a skills workout from a strength/hypertrophy workout? If so, in what order?
- HandStanding
- Tips/Clothing/Equipment for training outside in the cold weather?
- Why do so many people at gym not seem to use a program?
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-10-25 Posted: 24 Oct 2020 11:06 PM PDT Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread!
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| Posted: 24 Oct 2020 11:32 PM PDT HEY YOU, Have you taken any recent pics of those sweet gains, your human flag, or those handstands off the wall you're finally holding? Do you have other bodyweight fitness accomplishments you've made and want the world to know about because your friends and family can't appreciate how hard L-sit progressions are?? This is the thread for you to share all that and inspire others at the same time! I'm talking about another S-S-SU-SUNDAY SHOW OFF!! Note that we aren't limiting you to what we're discussing on the FAQ. Show us anything that blew your mind the moment you realized you had it. This may include aspects of: gymnastics, climbing, parkour, weight loss/gain, posture, etc. They are all more than welcome in this thread. We also want to remind you that we've been sharing your content on @redditbwf on both Instagram and Twitter. Help us grow our sub's social media in order to reach out to non-Redditors across these other platforms! Check out some of the previous Sunday Show Off threads for more inspiration! Archives here. Want to motivate yourself further? Use our member locator and workout map resource in our sidebar to form a local workout group in your area! [link] [comments] |
| How to get a wild workout?Become Tarzan. Posted: 24 Oct 2020 09:00 PM PDT Before anyone says anything, yes, I've read the rules and found only 3 posts that talked about Tarzan. One was a question about child Tarzan, one seemed to be about a TV show and the last seemed to be a troll post. Nowehere what I am looking for. So, I was recently listening to Hozier's Better Love and that reminded me of that Movie with the nord dude...Tarzan. And it got me thinking, what kind of workout would a person have to do to get somewhat near to his(Tarzan, the character) levels of conditioning, strength and musculature? 1.Tarzan would literally be only a bodyweight athlete. 2.Let's say that he is peak human performance without the aid of steroids and such.So, a natural crossfitter, in a way. 3.He would need strength to climb(mostly) and fight against stronger animals. 4.He would need endurance to be able to swim, run or fight for as long as he needed to. 5.Most people don't have the time, the means or even the bodily aptitude to reach Tarzan levels, so let's aim a bit lower. What kind of workout could be made by following these conditions? Again, we are looking at exercises that Tarzan could have used, not the actor playing the character. [link] [comments] |
| How to get the one arm pull up. Posted: 25 Oct 2020 06:52 AM PDT I've been trying to get the one arm pull up for a pong time, i actually did it once on my right arm but i could never do it again. I have mostly trained weighted pull ups but i almost don't see progress anymore , i can pull 167% of my body weight and hold about 8-10s 90 degrees lock off on a good day. I have decided to train only assisted one arms, and negatives. Would you recommend to do grease the groove? Or should i just do 3 workouts a week? [link] [comments] |
| How to do the second rep in muscle up? Posted: 25 Oct 2020 09:12 AM PDT Here's how my first rep look like its made yesterday: https://imgur.com/NuBsVLJ [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 10:16 AM PDT Yeah, yeah, I have Google but I'm interested in your personal opinion. In your experience, what particular exercises are the best for each muscle group, given into consideration that workouts are done ONLY inside ones home without ANY equipment, not even a pull-up bar or dips bars. [link] [comments] |
| 6 months progress and some routines Posted: 25 Oct 2020 06:22 AM PDT Hi there, Just wanted to share my progress and routine in case it can help anyone, and ask for any tips to overcoming a plateu. I started with reddit beginner routine for the first two months, I had some really good progress. Started with 3 pull ups max and reached 10 after two months. I was professionally training in track and field in my teens so I think it was probably easier for me to progress faster. I also followed a very strict diet, counting calories and not drinking any booze so managed to shed 8kg, 16%-18% body fat (depending on the day) to 9%-10% body fat. I am 33, haven't trained at all for over 10 years. Height 180cm Starting weight 84kg Current weight 76kg As I was enjoying the workout so much I decided to invest in calimove complete calisthenics routine and followed it for the next 4 months. Its a good program but I feel like it's more targeting skills than muscles development and strength. I stopped doing calimove routine a month ago and made my own program training every other day: 4-6 sets of pull ups with weights 8-12 reps, dropping weights after I reached my limit and doing a few more reps without weights. I alternate between pushups and chin ups. 4-6 sets of pushups/dips alternating each day. I do weighted pushups with 12kg in a backpack. Also finishing each set with a few reps without weight. When doing pushups, I alternate between narrow and wide hand position. I usually do pull ups and pushups as a superset. Then I would do 4 sets of pistol squats 10 reps and 4 sets of 15 leg raises on a bar. Also doing this as a super set. Twice a week I do another super set with a few sets of more specialised exercises: skin the cat, planche prep exercises, back bridge or ring muscle ups (can't do a regular one yet). My current goal is mostly to increase muscle size and strength. Long story short, for the last few weeks I am not seeing much of a progress, despite increasing weight. Max pull ups: 15 Max pull ups with 12kg: 11 Max Ring muscle up: 5 Max pushups with no weight: 30 Max pushups with 12kg: 15 Max dips: 20 Max dips with 12kg: 12 I am very hesitant with pistol squats as I can feel some pain in my knees after a few sets so stick to 8-10 for now. Would appreciate any suggestions on how to increase pull ups to over 20 and get better defined abs. In terms of muscle gains, I am seeing good results on my chest, arms and especially back but my abs are still not defined well enough. [link] [comments] |
| Quickier way to get Front Lever? Posted: 25 Oct 2020 09:37 AM PDT Im training front from one month ago, my training is like this x5 Isometric Advanced Tuck I think for like 6 seconds now with 8/10 form 5 minutes rest each x3 Australlian Pullups 8 x2 Heavy Pullups, 4-5 with 7.5kg [link] [comments] |
| Beginner/Intermediate Planche and/or Handstand pushup programs. Posted: 25 Oct 2020 12:34 PM PDT Hi all, I am going to be in a situation where I will be without access to my normal workout equipment for a number of weeks and I figured I'd take the time to start to learn planches. Does anyone have any recommendations of a training program or plan I can follow to aid me? Should I start the RR and just adapt it to my needs? My routine generally consists of lots of weighted and bodyweight pull-ups, dips and pushups, with some bodybuilding hypertrophy movements thrown in. I have very minor experience with the skills aspect of calisthenics but my strength should be okay. Thanks for all the help! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 11:48 AM PDT Hi, I'm finally getting back to trying to burn fat and build muscle, I would say I'm an intermediate weight-lifter since I've always been inconsistent with workouts, but I've experience in the weight room (and I've taken weight-lifting classes to ensure proper technique and form and whatnot during highschool two/three years ago) I have an available schedule of Mon-Fri, but I can probably incorporate Saturday if necessary. My call for help is how do I properly format a PPL split with my schedule? And how do I know how many exercises per muscle group I should do? The reason I ask this is because I don't want to walk in one day and do like 3 exercises for bicep and then 2 for back or something dumb. This is something new since my dumbass used to only do Mon, Wed, Fri and worked out each muscle group ONCE instead of twice per week, so any available help will be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| How do i become lean and muscly? Posted: 25 Oct 2020 11:38 AM PDT I've been dieting and exercising for the past 5-6 months and I've lost a lot of weight. Now I'm skinny and i have some muscles. I'd like to be lean and have a nice muscle definition. Is it possible for me to lose the last bit of fat without dieting (by that i mean eat everything except for sugary foods and beverages and junk food in general). I'd like to be lean and muscly and not bulky looking. Any help will be greatly appreciated and welcomed. Thanks in advance! [link] [comments] |
| Have you ever seen anyone attempt or successfully do a shrimp flip on gymnastics rings? Posted: 25 Oct 2020 10:51 AM PDT I'm trying it now (not to give anyone any ideas) but I am close. I've caught but can't hang on. I think catching one ring is gonna be the best way [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 04:49 AM PDT I've been doing calisthenics for the past two months or so and have managed to progress pretty quickly through most of the workout skills. The real pain or disappointment is that once I reach certain skill levels, such as those stated above, I seem to not be able to move any further than that. When I try to jump to say the straddle planche, my body moves into some sort of handstand position and I fall. The rest I can only manage some sort of negatives and even those I mostly just fall with no control at all. I've an Ectomorph body so at some point I thought it might be that in my current state my body can't make those particular moves and need to find a way to gain some more weight. Which God knows will take time and effort. Keep in mind that I've no way to access resistant bands to help me in the transition to the other skill moves. So any workout routine that doesn't include those, I'm more than willing to give it a try. [link] [comments] |
| Progress Report: Three Months of Convict Conditioning-ish Training Posted: 25 Oct 2020 09:53 AM PDT Age: 32 Height : 6" 2" Weight June 2020: 87kg (~191 pounds) Weight August 2020: 81kg (~179 pounds) Weight October 2020: 80kg (~176 pounds) Workout frequency: 3 times a week, weekend off Progress Pictures (August to October only) **Background:**My whole life I've been the tall, muscleless guy, a big skeleton and some flesh, held together loosly, as if made in a rush. I've also had moobs that poke out from my chest every time I put on any kind of weight. I got teased about them as a teenager and it has never allowed me to be comfortable topless, even when I was very thin. I have suffered from anxiety. I found gyms unbearable, once holding an annual membership for over a year while only visiting twice. Over the last few years I have got a handle on my depression and anxiety. This has been fantastic but, as a lot of people experience on antidepressants, I began to gain weight. All evidence points to it being behavioral rather than a direct effect of the drugs: when I hated myself I never wanted to eat but once I liked myself again I didn't refuse myself food. So I became overweight. Not huge, but just into an overweight BMI. I have been off antidepressants since the start of the year. Lockdown food: The benefits of lockdown were that I wasn't eating out and I wasn't snacking in work. I had control of my diet for the first time in a longtime. I wasn't eating birthday treats people brought into the office, nor taking a scone for breakfast or mountains of chips and something fried for lunch. My local shop started serving healthy microwave foods. They were all high in protein and low calories. Reading from my app here I can see that one of them is 450 calories, of which 37g is Protein, 48g of carbs and 11g of fat. I can get three of them for £10. I stated to eat them breakfast and dinner. They're mostly chicken of some discription. I realised with getting a healthy meals twice a day I only had to cut out snacks and I began to lose weight. Previously I had been doing things like eating several packets of biscuits a week, so just cutting everything nonsense out of my diet put me into a calorie deficit. I did try doing intermittant fasting for a while but I didn't really stay with it. Note: I had scales already and began weighing myself every day and recording it on google Fit. This worked well because I could see that despite the day-to-day fluctuations the general trend was down. August (Begining Bodyweight Fitness): I was about 81kg (179 pounds) heading into August and feeling great about my weightloss progress. I was still very weak. So I decided to buy Convict Conditioning and started working through it. In retrospect I would have started further up at some of the progressions. I didn't do my exercises in one big chunk. I took the advantage of working from home to do the sets throughout the day whenever I want to get up from my desk. I am most interested in gaining strength, so I don't think there's anything wrong with these long rest periods. After work at 5pm I work through the rest of the sets I haven't completed during the day. I also realised that I probably wasn't getting enough protein in my diet and should move closer to a maintainance intake in order to improve my gains. I started eating scrambled eggs with wheaten bread every morning. I very quickly saw an improvement. This is one of the best things I changed. I would recomend everyone to look at your protein intake whenever you start strength training. In Septmber I started to use protein powder and creatine. I took enough creatine to saturate for the first week and now I take 5g daily with 30g of protein powder. The creatine weight gain spooked me but it actually made me look better. I try to keep bananas around to snack on. Sometimes I have Billtong (south-african beef jerky). If I want a dessert it's fruit plus 0% fat greek yoghurt. My weekends are less strict as I usually spend time with family. My minuses about convict condioning is that some of the rep ranges are massive, which makes workouts long and that some of the exercises need additional progressions between them. I struggled with the push-up progressions and ended up changing to using a combination of planks and staircase push-ups (starting from using a high step to angle my body up, making the push up easier, and moving down a step, making it harder, as I improved.) I also didn't like that it left all pull exercises so late. I started with rows. I used a resistance band to get myself started. Current Routine/Stats with comments Wall Planks [Trying to build to handstands]: 30 seconds * 3 Chair Pistols: 4 sets of six (for each leg) Flat-leg rises: 5 sets of 24 [I don't like this exercise -- I'd like to change to something harder but lower rep] Head Bridges [He says to use something of prison bed height. What? I use two exercise blocks under my head. Again I'd love to change this progression] Push-up: six sets of six Uneven Plank: 25 seconds, five sets. I can hold a normal plank for 2 minutes now. Ring-row, using a chair to raise legs, as per Overcoming gravity: five sets of 11 Progression strategy: I try to increase by one rep in each exercise per workout. Mos of the time I can do this. I change exercise when I get really bored or the convict conditioning book says so. Thoughts on Results: No one is going to mistake me for a hunk yet but I'm looking a lot better. My chest is "meh" and that's the best it's been in my entire life. My arms are going the right direction. My legs are good. I'm happy with my top off now -- not that I get much chance moving into winter and my body in general feels better. I feel much more 'solid' when I'm moving about and people say my posture is better. I helped out doing some gardening last weekend and I noticed that I could carry the bags of compost by myself with ease. I could be a bit leaner, but I continue to lose a little bit of weight very slowly but consistently. I'm happy to continue to recomp for the moment. I should start to work on flexibility but I'm terribly lazy. Handstands seem ages away. Advice I want: Are there any obvious errors in my routine? Any suggestions about what to replace the exercises I dislike with? I own a pull-up bar and a set of rings. I bought a dip bar in an Amazon sale. I haven't started using it. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 09:34 AM PDT Hey there! I know this is a common question and should be answered somewhere in this reddit, but I could not find it. I also couldn't find any good information through Google, so I hope you'll excuse me asking this here. I've been working out for about 2 years, but I focused more on lifting at the beginning. I then got into calisthenics and mainly focused on compound exercises, so I'd say I'm not a beginner anymore, maybe somewhat intermediate. I for example still haven't got the full levers and my handstand alignment isn't great. This is due to me not having had a strategic approach at all. In any case, I got from the FAQ that you should do skills before moving on to the strength/hypertrophy workout. My question is: Would it still be alright to, say, do the strength workout early in the day and a skill workout later? It's probably possible, but I'm wondering whether that's effective or not. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 25 Oct 2020 02:47 AM PDT Greetings Everyone! Thank you for your valuable time and interest, I'm a 17 year old fitness enthusiast, been practicing calisthenics on and off for almost past 4 years now. I've been unable to workout for past few months due to illness and now am trying to get back on track with my exercise regime at home and was finding for someone to guide me and be a part of my comeback! I can manage to do 10 perfect form pull ups & Around 30 Push-ups Also 10s handstand hold ( with a few tries :p) My aim is to achieve the one arm handstand, Could anyone please be kind to suggest me a daily workout routine I could follow or even just an idea of how do I go about it? I've seen many videos on YouTube and still couldn't figure a way to build myself a plan. There is wayy too much information out there and I just don't know The One, if anyone could even share their story, that would help a lot! - K [link] [comments] |
| Tips/Clothing/Equipment for training outside in the cold weather? Posted: 24 Oct 2020 03:34 PM PDT As the title states, winter is coming (and gyms are closed). Does anybody have tips on how to effectively train outside during the colder seasons? Clothing- I'm guessing layers is best. Equipment- I can use rings and bars as long as they're not covered in snow. I've found that my hands tend to get cold quickly, so would you recommend buying gloves? If so, which ones? [link] [comments] |
| Why do so many people at gym not seem to use a program? Posted: 24 Oct 2020 09:05 PM PDT Every time I go to the gym it seems like no one tracks how much they are lifting. Why is that? [link] [comments] |
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