Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-11-12 |
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-11-12
- My mom said she was proud of me today :)
- I just personally experienced that once you master a skill, if you lose it due to inactivity, building it up again costs a fraction of the effort! Some positivity for all of you who like me, let their fitness level slide during the pandemic.
- Mental health
- How has working out regularly and building muscle affected your digestive/gut health? Can we discuss about our experiences?
- Golfers Elbow - Recommended Workout?
- Elliptical vs home bike in terms of leg training ?
- Stagnation with fighter pull-ups
- Elevated Pike Push-Ups (working my way to HSPU) good enough for chest?
- How to make working out interesting?
- Front Shoulder Strengthening
- Weighted negative pull ups to archive OAC?
- Skin stretching on parallettes
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-11-12 Posted: 11 Nov 2020 10:06 PM PST Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread!
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| My mom said she was proud of me today :) Posted: 12 Nov 2020 12:26 AM PST Been skinny my whole life. 5"6 and 45kg about 5 months ago. For the first time in months I had gone out to see friends since quarantine is being eased where I lived. Was wearing a somewhat tight shirt, which brought out definition in my body. First when I met my friends they noticed that I was a lot more muscular than they expected me to be. And when I got home, my mom said she was proud of me, and the hard work I put into my body. Her being proud of me makes me even more prideful in my own progress. It encouraged me even more to continue calisthenics, and im loving it. Currently 5"6, 54kg, 17 (but turning 18 in a few weeks) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Nov 2020 03:16 AM PST Hi everyone! So for context, I'm a 32 year-old woman with EDS, who has always had a lot of trouble gaining strength. At one point after another injury that set me back 6 weeks I just gave up and just let couch potato mode take over. To say I was a limp noodle is an accurate assessment of my fitness level over the past, say, 5 years. I had trouble doing proper wall-push-ups, the muscle atrophy was that bad. PT told me that if I didn't fix this I'd have a life of hurt ahead of me, so last year I started training seriously. Took me a year to master full, proper push-ups, among some other basic bodyweight movements. If you're a guy reading this you probably think that's pathetic, but for me, as someone whose shoulders pop out of joint when they feel like it and as someone who has never been able to do that in my entire life, it was a huge milestone. Anyway, pandemic hit, shit happened, I stopped training. Back to full couch potato. Fast forward to mid September, I decide to take stock of how much I lost. And as I feared, I could no longer bust out one single push-up. This big milestone I trained to get for a whole year, lost in a couple of months. I could not even do knee push-ups. I was back at doing push-ups at an incline and I struggled with those even. Today, at the beginning of November, I can do full push-ups again. I'm even making progress towards proper chin ups. All I did to get the push-ups back was consistently do incline push-ups several days a week for a couple of weeks, move onto knee push-ups again and then later back to full push-ups. Took me a little under 2 months to get it back, without changing my diet. I think the fact my body remembers how to do the movement, even if the muscle is not yet there, really, really helps. So if any of you lost a skill you worked hard to master, you don't have to go through that whole mountain of effort again. Your body remembers! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Nov 2020 06:00 PM PST Do any of you guys use body weight style fitness training as a self care tool? I have recently started to do this and it is awesome! I find that such a simple exercise can be so calming. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 12 Nov 2020 06:26 AM PST I recently came across this article when googling: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/exercise-improves-your-gut-bacteria . I am recently going through a stressful phase due to work stress and has been having GI issues. Minor but still irritating. This semi locked-down life is taking a toll. I am weak, I know. But gathering the mental momentum to start working out regularly has been a challenge. The article linked above cites some studies that had made short term analysis of gut health's dependency on exercise. The studies indicate a positive outcome. But they call for larger and longer studies. Longer studies are we ourselves; maybe. I am making this somewhat of an awkward post here because this sub is huge and has a 1.8million members many of whom have been exercising for long. Many among them are into workouts from a very young age while others have overcome several health issues to turn around their life through bodyweight workouts or workouts of other sorts. Can we have a discussion about personal experiences of people who have been exercising (maybe for quite some time), had issues related to gut health/digestion and how regular exercise has affected that? Good or bad both. I hope the discussion looks like (certain aspects coming right away in my mind): Your age and gender maybe. When did you start working out regularly/for how long are you doing it? Did you have any issues before regarding digestion/GI tract? Was it positively impacted or negatively after you put on muscle and became fit? If you didn't have any issue did you notice any improvement from the already good GI system you had? Maybe you were good, then had some down phase then again made a comeback? Feel free to add anything you like. P.S: This is not a medical sub so please try not be flood it with medical advice. The mods wouldn't like it and will pull down the post. I want this thread to become a dictionary of some sort. [link] [comments] |
| Golfers Elbow - Recommended Workout? Posted: 12 Nov 2020 01:29 PM PST Hi Guys, Seems as all the pull-ups and chins caused Golfers Elbow. My local doctor recommended no workout for a couple of weeks (we did ultra sound and there was damage). He said it will heal but there are cases ranging from 1 month to 3 years. .... Any recommended exercises to keep me on track? All info would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Elliptical vs home bike in terms of leg training ? Posted: 12 Nov 2020 01:28 PM PST does seating elliptical provide same muscles training as stationary bike [link] [comments] |
| Stagnation with fighter pull-ups Posted: 12 Nov 2020 01:21 PM PST A few months ago, the Fighter pull-up plan helped me get from a max of 3 good form pull-ups to about 10. I'm back down to only about 4-5 pull-ups unfortunately and started the plan again about 2-3 weeks ago. I started at 5RM and haven't been able to move up to the second week where you start with 6 reps. I just can't get that 6th rep no matter how many times I try. I've even given myself some extra rest days, varied with rest times, etc., and no progress. Anyone else experience this with this plan? Should I just try regular GTG and do 2-3 reps many times a day or what else can I try? [link] [comments] |
| Elevated Pike Push-Ups (working my way to HSPU) good enough for chest? Posted: 12 Nov 2020 01:10 PM PST Title is self explanatory. I did pike Push-Ups today and my shoulders were no doubt on fire but I could surprisingly feel in my chest as well (yes I know they're "push-ups" but I still wasnt expecting it) anyways I was wondering if Pike Push-Ups combined with weighted Dips would be good enough for chest hypertrophy. [link] [comments] |
| How to make working out interesting? Posted: 12 Nov 2020 12:21 PM PST I'm struggling with being bored by workouts. I play music and do the movements, and try to vary my workouts and follow different videos, but cognitively I feel extremely bored while working out. My main way of curing my boredom is to eat food, which is also a bad habit I struggle to break, but I'm in my home all the time right next to my kitchen. Any tips to make working out more interesting or engaging? Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 11 Nov 2020 08:41 PM PST I didn't see much during an initial search, so I made a post: what does everyone do for strengthening very weak front shoulders? The muscles I'm referring to are used to do pushups, but I'm trying to isolate the shoulders, exclusively. Does anyone have any good exercises that are bodyweight based? Or, at the least, that compliment a calisthenics routine? Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Weighted negative pull ups to archive OAC? Posted: 12 Nov 2020 02:16 AM PST I am asking myself, if weighted negative pull ups can help to archive a one arm pull up. What would be the progression? My thoughts: Weighted Negative Pull Up -> Negative One Arm Pull Up -> OAC I can do a Weighted Pull Up with +30kg (1.375 relative strength). [link] [comments] |
| Skin stretching on parallettes Posted: 11 Nov 2020 11:39 PM PST Hi all, I've been training for a while, I've got a full front lever for 7 seconds, slow muscle ups etc. almost an iron cross, and I started training planche on parallettes. Though when I go into a lean or adv tuck, the back of my hands, the flat skin between my thumb and middle finger feels like it's getting really stretched and uncomfortable. Is this normal for parallette training or am I not holding them correctly? [link] [comments] |
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