Bodyweight Fitness: Form Check Friday for 2020-10-02 |
- Form Check Friday for 2020-10-02
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-10-02
- Seen better improvements in my chest/arms after several months of rings training than from years of lifting
- Question about posterior cross body fascia stretch
- Begginer advive
- Is skipping which is low impact but long duration harmful to joints?
- I created some whacky program and I’ve never progressed this fast
- How do I progress towards a Straight Arm Ring Fly?
- Anti-glycolytic training
- calisthenics and weight lifting
- How does strengthening differ for weights/adding Rings/movement progressions? Your opinions/experiences
- Pushups not improving
- How do I fix my knees?
- Day 1 of Squadtober - Holy Moly
| Form Check Friday for 2020-10-02 Posted: 01 Oct 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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| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-10-02 Posted: 01 Oct 2020 11:06 PM PDT Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread!
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| Posted: 01 Oct 2020 03:57 PM PDT Before the pandemic I had been lifting ~4x a week for several years already so I'd say I'm in pretty good shape. I never followed a strict program or anything... mostly fuckarounditis but I still had intermediate-level lifts (nothing crazy). However, when I was lifting regularly I always felt like my arms and chest lagged behind hardcore. I could bench 225lbs for 3 reps @ 165 lbs at one point, but I always felt like my chest was really lacking. Not to mention my biceps never really grew no matter how many curls I did. The only bodyweight exercises I really did before was pullups/chins (weighted and unweighted). So I'd say I had a decent base for bodyweight, but I had never really focused on it. Now when the pandemic started I first focused on mostly weighted pushups and pullups. I made decent progress with them, but it got boring fast. Around 3 months ago I decided to get a pair of rings and it was hard as fuck at first! I could barely do a few pushups on my first day, and I think I could only do 2 dips on my first day (super shakey). After a few weeks, I got more accustomed to the stability and progressed more quickly... soon I was doing up to 8 ring dips in a set. Now 3 months later, I feel like my chest and arms look WAY better than they ever did when I was lifting 4-5x a week. Some recent achievements on the rings:
My biceps have grown especially, more than when I was doing 4-5 sets of hammer curls a day. I think that doing RTO holds and dips really helped my biceps grow. Current short-term goals:
Eventually I'd like to be able to do advanced stuff like straddle planche and front lever pullups but it'll definitely take a very long time to get there. Just thought I'd share, might post some comparison photos if anyone's curious. Has anyone else here seen significant improvements in physique from rings? What was your routine/goals? [link] [comments] |
| Question about posterior cross body fascia stretch Posted: 02 Oct 2020 10:27 AM PDT I read this article about a serious of stretches that are designed to stretch fascia "highways". https://www.oxygenmag.com/training/6-stretches-to-improve-fascia-elasticity I think it is based on the work of Chuck Wolf. I really like the way they feel. I have a simple question about the posterior X-factor highway stretch, which involves putting your left foot on your right thigh while standing on the right leg and reaching a pole to your left. I can't figure out which side you are supposed to be stretching in this position - the bent leg (and then round to the opposite shoulder stretched from the arm across your chest), or the straight leg (and then round to the opposite shoulder closest the bar which I can still stretch against the bar by rotating slightly). I looked for his books or other articles but I can't find any detail that clarifies this simple point, so would appreciate any pointers. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2020 11:17 AM PDT I want to feel comfortable lifting my own bodyweight but I don't know where to start. What exercises would you reccomend [link] [comments] |
| Is skipping which is low impact but long duration harmful to joints? Posted: 02 Oct 2020 05:43 AM PDT As mentioned in the title itself, I've been restricted to skipping to get my daily workout during the lockdown. Just a bit of background: I've been into fitness for the past 8 years rotating between running, sprinting, weight training, calisthenics. I got to a point where I don't feel productive the entire day if I don't workout with high intensity. Now with the lockdown, I'm doing just skipping and ab workouts. I'm doing around 5000 skips in 30 min hiit style, 5 days a week. I use reebok training hiit shoes. I'm concerned if this will effect my ankles and knees. Anyone who's a pro in endurance running or skipping had any issues with their joints? [link] [comments] |
| I created some whacky program and I’ve never progressed this fast Posted: 01 Oct 2020 09:23 PM PDT I've done different splits, the Russian fighter pull up program, mainly lifted weights but I trained calisthenics for 6 months straight last year, I've tried a bunch of different things, but I've never worked out 7 days a week until now. Every single day for the last three weeks, I've been doing 1xmax(to failure) set of: push ups, pull ups, chin ups, pop squats, and sit ups. Just once a day. I've made absolutely insane progress, in three weeks my max pull up has gone from 9 to 16 chin ups went from 10 to 17 pop squats 23 to 48 push ups 25 to 52 The recovery was brutal at first, my back was so fkin sore for the first week or so. Anyway I know this is an anecdotal but it seems the upped frequency has really shocked my body into blasting through a strength barrier. Thanks for reading! [link] [comments] |
| How do I progress towards a Straight Arm Ring Fly? Posted: 02 Oct 2020 07:11 AM PDT Hey people! Currently my goal is reaching the 5 seconds Full Front lever as i can hold the straddle for 10 seconds already. But for chest I dont have a goal other than just to train chest. Now I already have a lot of experience training with rings but I want to set a goal to take things to another level. The straight arm ring fly. How do I progress towards this move with a straight locked out arm? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:20 PM PDT Hey guys I'm new here! Recently I read online about benifits of anti glycolitic training but I'm really confused because I also read that glycolysis increases blood lactate levels, stimulated the hypertrophy of skeletal muscle with the activation of muscle satellite cells. So I'm really in dilemma, is this applicable for bodyweight training too, or just HIIT (kettlebell)? Because till now I have been really pushing myself in training. My workout usually involves bodyweight training (push-ups, dips pull-ups, squats), kettlebelling and 5km run once a week. Thank you and sorry for bad english. [link] [comments] |
| calisthenics and weight lifting Posted: 01 Oct 2020 11:07 PM PDT im doing calisthenics right now, but i am training like a bodyubilder by adding time under tension and i perform weight pushups and pullups just like a bodybuilder would do benchpress and lat pulldown. my question is how does calisthenics translate to skills like handstand and planche etc when most calisthencis athletes train the same way as bodybuilders but bodybuilders strugle to do pullups, dips and pushups, and wouldnt be able to do a handstand or a front lever to save their life. i am confused because our muscles dont know how theyre being trained wether its closed chain exercise or open because the muscle is under stress either way. so how do pullups and pushups make us achieve these calisthenics skills but bench and lat pulldown dont for example. also if i took my exercises and kept the rep range the same and temp the same and everything is the exact same but i did lat pulldown instead of pullups and so on, if i did this for a year and came back to the pullup bar would i be weaker? if so why or why not? there are calisthenics athletes that arent light either (being lighter can make static skills easier) and they can still do these skills, there is a guy who dos calisthenics (93kg) he hasnt trained skills in years but he can still do it, but i bet you if he stopped doing pullups dips and pushups then and started doing benchpress then he would lose his ability to do the skills. why is this? please answer as best as you can, thanks in advance [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2020 03:15 PM PDT I'm currently doing the usual body weight progressions for different experiences, using different movements to improve strength. However, I've heard a lot about how other methods have been used to add difficulty and change your muscularity. Rings may add a heavy isometric component to normal exercises and weights directly load more. How would you compare the use of progressions/rings/weighted exercises to affect your progress/strength/physique? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2020 09:31 PM PDT Hi guys! I've been doing pushups at home for quite some time now but after awhile it feels like I've not been improving. I usually do about 5 sets of 9-13 reps twice a day, around noon and in the evening, twice a week, Monday and Friday. It feels like every time I do them it feels like they were just as hard to perform as before, sometimes even harder. My max pushup count hasn't increased at all. I have taken many month long breaks due to this "plateau" and I'm starting to get sick of it. I'm hoping u guys would have any advice for me. Any form of help would be greatly appreciated! Thx!!! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 01 Oct 2020 01:32 PM PDT My knees feel really weak tbh. I haven't worked out in a while but I want to start again. Problem is when I start working out my legs, I feel like my knees are gonna break. Or they start hurting. Can I do any knee workouts? To make them stronger? [link] [comments] |
| Day 1 of Squadtober - Holy Moly Posted: 01 Oct 2020 01:31 PM PDT Hey everyone, I just did my first day of Squadtober and boy, I can feel my lower back burn ALREADY! I have been slacking off in terms of training in the past few days and well...Luckily I am a part of this community and had the advantage of seeing a post earlier this day that showed me the idea behind Squadtober. So I decided to do it and here we go baby. 150 Squats, 14 sets of 12 and 1 set of 6. I have a slight anterior pelvic tilt but after feeling my muscles in the lower back contract, my posture automatically corrected and I really hope that maybe by the end of October I can have a normal posture and really well worked out legs! Stay fit everyone! [link] [comments] |
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