Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-02-02

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• BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-02-02
• Rings Support/Dips are very hard and I'm loving it.
• Some questions and advice needed
• 46 years old guy in the beginning of RR - questions, questions...
• Cutting Very Slowly?
• DOMS for 5 days
• Upper/Lower Split Opinions
• Trouble finding ankle anchor spots for nordic curls. Is anchoring toes okay?
• Where do muscle-ups fit?
• What would be the best split for an intermediate
• Why do dips AND pushups?
• Best spin bikes for home workout with ultimate guideline
• When should I use the foam roller/massage thingy?
• Setup: Board for pullups and PVC for rings
• Why on earth can't I bend down to deadlift!
• Tired of frontlever
• Olympic Rings Push/Pull Question
• Doing chins/pullups with VERTICAL pole?
• Splits while hanging?

BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-02-02 Posted: 01 Feb 2021 09:01 PM PST Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread! Feel free to post beginner questions or just about anything that's on your mind related to fitness! Reminders: Read the FAQ as your question may be answered there already. If you're unsure how to start training, try the BWF Primer Routine, check out our Recommended Routine, or our more skills based routine: Move. Even though the rules are relaxed here, asking for medical advice is still not allowed. NEW EXCITING NEW YEAR NEWS: The BWF Primer Routine is being rolled out! You can follow that link to a collection of all the rollout posts. Check them out and follow along at home for an introduction to BWF Join our live conversations on Discord! We're also on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter! If you'd like to look at previous Discussion threads, click here. submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

Rings Support/Dips are very hard and I'm loving it. Posted: 02 Feb 2021 05:59 AM PST I've been doing calisthenics for almost 4 months by now and have bought rings in the past month. This acquisition had me even more into the exercises and I'm feeling very good, but for almost a month, I still can't do RTO Support on the rings, can someone give me some tips or anything like that? I'm already doing 3-4 band assisted dips, but I'm unable to turn the rings out. submitted by /u/Intelligent_Finger44 [link] [comments]

Some questions and advice needed Posted: 02 Feb 2021 06:23 AM PST Hello there ! So lately I've managed to get into a rythm for working out that suits me pretty well. However, I have some goals and I'd like to be sure I'm actually working towards them. Edit : sorry, this ended up being pretty long. If you have the time to read it though, that would mean a lot ! First, goals ! 1- I'd say the goal that is at the forefront right now for me is gaining some mass. I am a 25yo, 174-175cm and 60kg male. I'd like to fill out my frame a bit and maybe get to a lean 65kg. I'm not in a big rush but it's something I'd like to work toward. I think I have the nutrition aspect down, so it's mostly the training I'm wondering about. 2- Gain some upper body strength. This one is pretty straightforward. 3- Work on some skills - I'd like to get the muscle-up, the v-sit, and the handstand (and more, but those are the main ones I can think of). 4- Get more flexible and mobile. 5- Stay in "hiking shape" for lack of a better term. I live near mountains and I love hiking, so I'd like to maintain some cardio and endurance in the legs. Second, what I'm doing ! Basically, I'm trying to do around 4 sessions a week. My timetable and work load is different from week to week so I don't have a fixed plan, but I try to do the 4 sessions every week with at most 2 on consecutive days to get some rest. I have a few "types" of sessions that I rotate through depending on the weather outside, my soreness, and generally what I feel like doing (or what my friends feel like doing, because I sometimes work out with friends who don't necessarily have the same goals as me) : 1- Strength pull session. I take a weighted backpack and do 3-4 sets of pull ups, which I weight in order to get to 6-5-5-4 reps before moving up my weight. I actually just started this and am still only on 5kg ^ I'll also sprinkle in some skin the cats, or tucked front lever attempts in there. I usually finish with some unweighted rows, although maybe I'll start doing them weighted. 2- Strength push session. 3-4 sets of pike push-ups, 3-4 sets of archer push ups, finish with some regular push-ups or some dips (I've recently started doing pull-overs on a pull-up bar to do dips on the bar). There are also some rings at the training site I go to, but ring dips still kind of scare me haha 3- Regular pull session. I'll usually do a pyramid of pull-ups (do 1 rep, rest 2min, do 2 reps, rest 2min, etc until failure. Then go back down until I reach 1 rep again). Then 3 sets of rows. (Skin the cats and tuck front lever training too at the start of the session if I have time). 4- Regular push session. This one is a bit different, because I do this with a friend. We have a goal together to get better at the Bring Sally Up push-up challenge. So we give it a first try (I usually get to around 1min10s), then rest 3minutes and pick up where we left off - trying to finish the whole song in as few "sets" as possible. We'll do diamond push-ups sometimes for some extra fun. Then we usually finish the session with some abs work (sometimes just do an abs variant of Bring Sally Up). 5- Cardio/legs session. This is with another friend usually, and we either go running for close to an hour or do some sets on stairs (running up the stairs one by one, two by two, three by three, etc.) With some squats, lunges and stuff like that thrown in for good measure. 6- Full body workout. With the same friend, we do general exercises like crunches, push-ups, squats, calf exercises, plank and side-plank, mountain climbers... I'll try to do some handstand work at the beginning of these sessions if I have time, I'd say I do 10-15 minutes 2 or 3 times a week. Also 10-15 minutes of yoga when I have the time, usually 2 or 3 times a week too. (I'll also add that during my 3-4 minutes rests for my strength exercises, I do some flexibility work). Sometimes it feels like I'm trying to do too much at the same time, but I've seen some progress in reps and my overall feeling of fitness since doing this - plus the flexibility of it allows me to keep going despite the different constraints I may get in my life (from work or other). Am I actually working towards my goals though ? What do you guys think ? Anything I should change ? submitted by /u/saraki-yooy [link] [comments]

46 years old guy in the beginning of RR - questions, questions... Posted: 02 Feb 2021 12:32 AM PST Hi all, And thanks for putting the RR together, whoever did it! I have done it three weeks now, and I'm already a bit fitter, but I have couple of questions. First a little bit of background though: I have a small child, who wakes up quite often in the middle of the night, so I cannot get enough sleep. The amount of sleep deprivation varies, and situation has gotten better, but nevertheless my lack of sleep is chronic, and nothing can be done about it, until my my child starts to sleep better. I think this affects my recovery a lot. If I have only one rest day in between training days, my next training is suffering from lack of energy. Two days seems to be enough, so I plan to move to two days a week instead of three. My first goal is to get a sustainable routine and since recovery in this life situation is a challence, I have tuned down the program a little. If I manage to keep doing it week after week and get even minor improvements, that is an achievement in itself. Another related goal is to lose weight, mainly in order to quit snorring, since that is huge disruptor of sleep. My wife wakes up, and then she wakes me up, and nobody is having fun! I have already lost 10cm from my waist by doing intermittent fasting a'la 16:8. So that is going very well, but as you can guess being calory deficient and sleep deprivated is not a perfect match with maximal gains. But still, surprisingly, my muscles seems to be growing and I feel fitter in my day-to-day life. No need to maximize anything for now - something is already so much better than nothing. Instead of three sets per exercise I am doing two. Also, I don't bother much legwork right now. As a youngster I was doing a lot of skateboarding and mountain biking, and I was even competing a bit in snowboarding (half-pipe). So there is something in my legs already and it should be easy to "wake them up" with exercise later. Upper body and posture has always been my weakness, so that is a priority now. So, now to the questions: I'm in a point where I can hold myself up in a dip position for something like 50-60 seconds in a first set and about 40 seconds in second set. However, I start to tremble already around 12 seconds point. I think that apart from trembling my form is quite OK until the end of 45-60 second time. But I don't know what to make of this? When is the right point of stopping the hold? When doing normal push-ups for example, I adjust the amount of reps about 1-2 reps short of what feels like maximum. But how to measure the right level for isometric holds? Also, I think that exhausting my arms in dips cuts down my push-ups. Would it be good idea to balance the amount of effort between these two excercises so that on altenate days I would focus a bit more on dips and the other days on push-ups? At the moment I have two longer term goals: A) 10 chin-ups B) 1 handstand push-up. At the moment I get almost one chin-up, and about ten years ago I managed seven. So I think ten is achievable. But how about handstand push-up? Is it realistic goal, and how far in the future would it possibly be? At the moment I can do about 10 basic push-ups as a part of my routine. My sets are not of equal reps. My condition of the day depends a lot on how I slept the previous night(s), so I do my first set with the aim to do at least the same amount as last time, and usually manage to do so, but then I may not have enough strength to do that much in my second set. Typically this would be something like 9 push-ups in a first set and then something like 4-8 in a second set. Maybe my main question is: how to adjust the routine per week and per day basis, when you are a bit older guy, sleeping too little, trying to lose weight? I think I already have some control on this, but there is always the question if you are just lazy or truly poorly recovered in any particular situation. So if there are any rule of thumbs, or ways to measure your level in the situation of compromised recovery, I would like to know about it. Phew, that was lot, thanks for reading this far! And thanks or any comments you might have! submitted by /u/Just_for_this_ques [link] [comments]

Cutting Very Slowly? Posted: 02 Feb 2021 12:18 PM PST I (45M 6' 200lbs.) am still a strength training beginner, within my first year of training, but have gained some weight and an inch on my waistline. I have started cutting very slowly, .25 lbs. per week, while still maintaining my normal training schedule. I just read, though, that sometimes cutting too gradually can actually backfire, and make your body more resistant to losing fat. Is this true? Would it be better to cut .5 lbs. or 1 lb. per week? If I do, will my strength progression suffer? I don't need to get lean anytime soon, but eventually, I would like to lose the extra inch I picked up in my waist. submitted by /u/larryjor [link] [comments]

DOMS for 5 days Posted: 02 Feb 2021 09:13 AM PST Hey guys I'm not sure how to write here so I'll start by saying I'm a fairly active person I play a lot of basketball and used to lift quite a lot but quit that when lockdown started in place for home body weight workouts. I was in hospital lying in bed for a week and then worked out after I was released and I've had DOMS for a week now (from air squats???? I used to squat 170kg now 50 air squats gives me doms) anyway should I wait for the doms to go completely before going again or just push through I'm not sure if it'll cause damage or strengthen even more. I live by the motto pain is weakness leaving the body so I don't mind it but don't want to damage myself thank you anyone submitted by /u/2kgodmmm [link] [comments]

Upper/Lower Split Opinions Posted: 02 Feb 2021 11:32 AM PST Yo guys. I need some advice. So suddenly I've been enjoying leg day and want to incorporate it more into my workouts. Currently I train very hard as I've been training for 4 years +. So I train 6 days - with a push/pull/leg/push/pull/skills/rest split. Therefore I am pushing my upper body a hell of a lot. (5x week) I do lots of skills tho so it's not too taxing. I want to change to a upper/low split n repeat 3 times l. Do you guys think hitting up body only 3 times in a week sufficient to building muscle still? Thanks lads! submitted by /u/JDMNTE [link] [comments]

Trouble finding ankle anchor spots for nordic curls. Is anchoring toes okay? Posted: 02 Feb 2021 10:30 AM PST I've been trying to progress into banded nordic curls, but finding practically no places in my house where I can fit my feet under to properly anchor myself, let alone a spot I can fit a band to. The best spots I can find are places I can wedge my feet into, like my radiator, which make my toes/feet the anchor point instead of the ankle. Is this okay, or does it mess up the exercise? submitted by /u/MasNilknarf [link] [comments]

Where do muscle-ups fit? Posted: 02 Feb 2021 11:15 AM PST Hey bwf peeps, just curious here. I'm far from being able to done one, but in a routine, where would muscle-ups fit? Since they seem to be both a pull and a push, where would they go if you're on a push/pull routine? And with a full body, usually a program will have the vertical pull and vertical push. Would a muscle-up replace the pull up AND the dip? submitted by /u/Beerendo [link] [comments]

What would be the best split for an intermediate Posted: 02 Feb 2021 11:01 AM PST I just got into making my own workout plan and i cant figure out what would be the best split for calisthenics. My goals are just building muscle or lose some fat later on. submitted by /u/Nikolinas_j [link] [comments]

Why do dips AND pushups? Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:24 AM PST The RR had both and they are both chest dominant exercises that also benefit the triceps and others. Why do they go with each other and not replace each other? submitted by /u/YimmyYams [link] [comments]

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When should I use the foam roller/massage thingy? Posted: 02 Feb 2021 03:01 AM PST Right after the workout? The day after when I'm sore? A few days later? submitted by /u/UdonodU [link] [comments]

Setup: Board for pullups and PVC for rings Posted: 01 Feb 2021 01:37 PM PST I'm not sure if this allowed, but it's a rings/pull-up setup that seems to work for me where others didn't. I don't have the sturdy chairs, table, or countertop layout that would allow for rows or dips, and a cheap pull-up bar nearly torqued off the top portion of a doorframe. So, I placed a 2"x12" plank across two opposing hallway door frames with just enough clearance for some dish towel padding. It provides three grips for pullups. I then used about 12' of rope and some 1" diameter pvc pieces screwed into two C shapes to drape over the top for for rings. Paired with a fold-up chair for foot raising, I've used it for about two weeks now for pullups, rows, pushups, and assisted dips and no drawbacks have become apparent so far. It seems fairly affordable and versatile, and I thought it might be helpful to share. submitted by /u/mydoglikesbroccoli [link] [comments]

Why on earth can't I bend down to deadlift! Posted: 01 Feb 2021 01:49 PM PST I have been trying for MONTHS to deadlift with ~15 lbs. I cant bend down more than a little bit before my lower back begins to round. I dont even really feel my hamstrings. I do some lacrosse ball muscle releases all over my body in the morning and night and do some toe touches with a flat back (more like mid thigh touches since I cant bend over) throughout the day and I just can't seen to get this sorted. Is their any way I can still work my hamstrings and low back?? Preferably with no special equipment. Any advice is appreciated. submitted by /u/buttered_toast_cat [link] [comments]

Tired of frontlever Posted: 01 Feb 2021 02:59 PM PST I'm 180cm and I'm sto tired to not see progression on my front lever. I'm trying to to train FL since 8 months and I'm still stuck in one leg. I can't even hold a straddle but I can do a few seconds of halflay FL. I can't do a full Ron adv. Tuck pull up and that makes me so sad. I weight 80 kg and I can manage to do a full Ron pull up with 60 kg without a specific train for it. What I'm asking to you guys, that are more and more and more experienced than me, is if it is possible to get a full front lever or I have to quit skills and focus on weighted calisthenics. For the moment I've got 10 seconds of adv. Tuck , and 10 seconds of one leg advanced. submitted by /u/Fra1703 [link] [comments]

Olympic Rings Push/Pull Question Posted: 01 Feb 2021 02:53 PM PST I'm leaning towards getting some Olympic Rings and incorporating them in to my workouts. My question is; do I do both push and pull exercises the same day or should I do push one day and pull the next? I'm excited to start these exercises and I'm looking forward to some feedback! submitted by /u/Cold_Advance_766 [link] [comments]

Doing chins/pullups with VERTICAL pole? Posted: 01 Feb 2021 11:24 PM PST (Bit of an odd one, this) Currently on Covid lockdown. Would like to do some pull ups but don't have equipment etc and all non essential stores are closed / trips are prohibited anyway. However - One of the spare rooms has a vertical pole, running from roof to floor (room was initially outdoors but was enclosed). Yes, yes....like a strippers pole...but thicker, making it too difficult to grip, let alone do pole chins Is there any clever way to jury rig this pole for pull ups? I thought about tying a belt or a sheet around it, but they don't hold very well (I don't want to attempt the 'sheet on door' trick, as the doors are flimsy AF) submitted by /u/bozon78_1 [link] [comments]

Splits while hanging? Posted: 01 Feb 2021 03:44 PM PST Is there anyone who has done a full split while hanging. When I mean hanging I mean like a passive hang, but just lifting the legs up to a split. I tried myself, but my glutes get a cramp very fast from it, so I got about 30-45 degrees per leg, instead of 90 per leg. Anyways, I cant find any videos or anything of it, I just really would like to see it, and maybe if there is any way to train for it in addition to just doing it gradually better and better. submitted by /u/Particular-Slice5944 [link] [comments]

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