Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-12-06 |
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-12-06
- Sunday Show Off - Because it's perfectly fine to admit you're also doing bodyweight fitness to do cool tricks in front of people!
- Single leg squatting with femoral retroversion
- Covid recovery
- Dealing with muscle cramps
- raw power/bent-arm strength and a tad of isometric training vs isometric training to achieve skills
- Intimidated by pushups.
- PLANCHE QUESTION
- Need help with pull-up game.
- How to get second OAPU
- Advancement of pull ups
- A thread for individual transformatiom achievements during lockdown months from the comfort of your home
- Alternatives to pelican curl?
- Weighted ring dips progressions / programming
- GZCLP Applied to Weighted Calisthenics
- Can I ONLY train my upper legs to tighten that area and reduce cellulite, without losing weight?
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-12-06 Posted: 05 Dec 2020 10:06 PM PST Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread!
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| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 12:31 AM PST 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] |
| Single leg squatting with femoral retroversion Posted: 06 Dec 2020 01:47 AM PST Hello everyone, I am progressing in bodyweight training and starting to incorporate more single leg squats into my routine (assisted pistols, bulgarian split squats, step ups). Now I know that in two-legged squats, your hip dictates your stance. Anteversion leads to narrow stance with feet pointed forward, retroversion leads to wider and angled out feet. I have severely retroverted hips. I can externally rotate my hips/legs for days with little internal rotation. What I wanted to ask is what some others here do to deal with that when it comes to single leg squatting because exercises like the pistol squat basically require a narrow stance with toes pointed forward. I can already tell that this isn't very healthy for me and although ankle mobility is definitly also a factor, I see this as a main reason why I cannot achieve depth in pistol squats. Is there anything I can do to make single legs squats more friendly to retroverted hips? Thank you for any exeriences/suggestions for modifications. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 09:47 AM PST I have been infected with Covid. I had a fever and intense fatigue. I just recently before symptoms did my first l sit hold and deadhang chin ups. Now I can barely do a push-up. What are some ways to get back into Calisthenics post Covid? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 10:28 AM PST I am learning to point my toes properly, but always get hard cramps at the bottom of my calves. I was just wondering if this is something I should just push through? as my calves are not used to the movement or could this be a weakness in my calves? I never train calves since I have fairly large calves naturally. [link] [comments] |
| raw power/bent-arm strength and a tad of isometric training vs isometric training to achieve skills Posted: 06 Dec 2020 09:37 AM PST So from the title, it's pretty obvious what the question is. Do you really need to train the isometric skills religiously to achieve them? Because I and some friends of mine just get skills very easily without really training them. We just train for power and hypertrophy and seem to get skills fairly easily by just trying them out and training them for a couple of months on and off at random. I got the back lever and a straddle front lever also almost a straddle planche from just trying them out and doing basics and some advanced bent arm skills, so do I really need to train them a lot to achieve them? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 10:34 AM PST I've been body weight training since my early teens and exercising with equipment regularly as well since then. However, starting from earlier this year I developed what I can only describe as a sort of "fear" of pushups. The best way I can describe it is that it's the same feeling as being on the high dive at the swimming pool as a kid, a type of vertigo which I always feel when I'm approaching my spot on the floor where I'm going to do pushups. As soon as I get there however, I start to pace around the spot like I'm entranced by something in a glass display case behind a velvet rope, and before I know it, 5 minutes have passed and I haven't done a single rep or even laid down on the floor. This wasn't much of a problem for me before, since I had a bench and a set of dumbbells for when I didn't feel like doing pushups, but now that I just moved house and don't currently have any equipment, I'm stuck in a dead spot. I also experience a similar problem when I do finally start with my workout and I get to about 30-40 reps and then stay suspended on my extended arms for a solid minute before getting up and quitting. This feeling usually goes away after I do a few sets and start getting more into it, but the feeling still persists the next time around. My push-up routine for a long time has always been a minimum of 3 sets of 50 incline pushups with sometimes a 4th set of stop when you drop, but recently I've stopped after halfway through my first set as if I'm bored and my mind is telling me to stop pretending that I want to be here and that I should quit. I don't know why. Am I afraid of not living up to my own standards? Am I afraid of failing? Have I just gotten lazy? Am I experiencing burnout? Could it be related to a change in my life? Am I letting something external distract me? This has never happened to me before, even under extreme fatigue and stress. I was always happy and determined to push myself through every workout and enjoy every second of the burn. But I don't know what to do anymore. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 11:48 AM PST Hello I'm just wondering about this... Would it be possible to achieve the planche, if you were able to military press your body weight for reps and you could planche lean very far (like bring your hands to your waist and hold it) Could you achieve the planche doing only military press and planche leans? (Sorry for noobish curiosity) [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 08:14 AM PST Hi, I'll keep it short. For some weird reason I cannot go up in reps in my pull-ups, chin-ups, hammer pull-ups, pronated/supinated L-sit pull-ups. For two years I had tried MANY different methods to increase my numbers in reps, watched countless YT videos and read articles on the internet regarding this topic. At the age of 19 I did between 5-8 reps per set, I am 21 right now and still do the same amount of reps even though my weight went up about 9kg. I progressed only in my strenght training from little boo-hoo 5kg under the belt to 30kg, but bodyweight reps stayed exactly the same. Numbers on barbell rows, australian pull-ups, push-ups, benchpress, OHP, deadlifts went up. Every other exercise went up in repetitions and weight! I sometimes fell like bashing my head against the wall, I feel embarrassed because of this. It's not the problem of my grip ( I can hang on with one arm for over 40 seconds: left'n right ), it's not a problem of breathing, it's not a problem of keeping tension in the body, it's not the problem of focusing in pulling with your back, greasing the groove doesn't work, 3x10/10x3/ 10x5 with various grips don't work, paused reps don't work, banded pull-ups don't work. Ironically my back is one of my strongest muscle groups yet for some reason I can't perform 10 proper reps without going into seizures. I always feel weakness in my arms. I know I have strenght in my back, but my arms give out before my back. Anyone on this forum had the same problem? If yes then spit out some knowledge on me because I'm sad. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 10:17 AM PST More than a year ago I unlocked the one arm pull up on my left arm. I made some progress in the last year, the pull up got more solid, but I am nowhere near a second one. Exercises I tried are:
I usually do 4-5 sets with 3 minute rest, 2 times a week. For me the transition from dead hang to a shoulder position from which I can fully activate the back muscles is the most difficult. Because of that I am not able to do a single pull up with my right arm, but can do like a 90% range of motion cleanly. My right arm feels strong so I think I have a mental blockade or something when I go from a dead hang. I would appreciate advice on how to increase my reps and how to overcome my "mental blockade" on my right arm. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 06 Dec 2020 09:33 AM PST I do 3 sets of weighted pull ups with 8kg. First set i manage to reach 8 reps. Second set also 8 reps but definitely harder with the last rep being very hard. Last set i get to 4 - 5 reps. I rest 90 seconds between sets. My question is should I move on to a heavier weight? Say 10 or 12kg. My goal is to build strength and muscle. I know the two vary in some degree but that's my goal. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2020 11:59 PM PST The title says it all. All the previous months we have undergone was a unique experience for us. We never imagined this kind of thing would happen. I have seen random people upload their transformation on youtube. But this sub has not yet had any thread of that kind. Not that it is essential. But, still, there are places which are in lockdown and there are people who are still thinking to start. And again, the situation being first of a kind to me, I thought it would be great to have a thread where people discuss what they achieved in the lockdown, of course regarding their body using whatever they had at home. Many people couldn't do pullups for example cause their home didn't have a hanging place. Can you all wonderful people share your routines and experience regarding fitness in these past 9 to 11 months? P.S. Progress Post frequencies have also slowed down quite a bit in this sub. Let us as a community motivate people. Times are hard but together we must stand. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Dec 2020 10:00 PM PST I just got a pair of rings and a workout plan I was following has pelican curls as one of the exercises. The thing is i cant even do one no matter how hard I try. Does anyone know an alternative exercise that I can use instead which will also help me to progress to doing my first proper pelican curl rep. [link] [comments] |
| Weighted ring dips progressions / programming Posted: 05 Dec 2020 08:54 PM PST Hey all, I'm wondering what progressions people have used for weighted ring dips. I started adding weight to ring dips recently and made pretty good progress with a simple linear progression (20lbs x 5 - 70lbs x 5 in about 12 weeks). But now gains are slowing down (even after a deload) and I'm looking for different programming to keep making progress. I've been thinking about trying out daily undulating periodization but I'd love to hear how other people approached getting heavier ring dips. [link] [comments] |
| GZCLP Applied to Weighted Calisthenics Posted: 05 Dec 2020 06:46 PM PST Those interested into Weighted Calisthenics could try this out. Its definitely nothing special it's basically GZCLP (a beginner weightlifting program) but the main lifts are Pull-Ups, Dips and if you can do them-Muscle Ups. The routine is split like this For further information please refer to r/gzcl wiki and read its Wiki, most information is also on the spreadsheet linked here I suggest that for your T2 movements you add a horizontal pushing exercise (rows on Pull Day, push ups on Dip Day) and for your T3 you can add in leg exercises and other accessories for lagging muscle groups. Anyways I wrote this cuz I was bored, any thoughts? [link] [comments] |
| Can I ONLY train my upper legs to tighten that area and reduce cellulite, without losing weight? Posted: 05 Dec 2020 03:24 PM PST So I'm a 26F and I'm about 165cm tall, I've always weighed around 50 kgs (which was, looking back, too low for me). Since 2 years I've finally gained some weight and I'm now content with my figure. However. The main place I ever (have and will) gain weight is in my lower body. So now I still have small arms, a flat belly with even some abs visible, okay calves but boy those thighs.. I've gained 8kgs in total, I would guess 6 of them went to my thighs. Resulting in some cellulite too, which honestly nullifies the confidence I've gained since the weight gain. So the question is: can I train and tighten those upper legs in any way, without me losing weight again? It is literally the only area of my body I'm self conscious about, and I have absolutely zero fitness experience. Help a girl out! [link] [comments] |
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