Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-06-05 |
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-06-05
- Total noob and ex drug addict needs help with where to start.
- Need advice on installing gymnastics rings
- One pullup...
- Need a schedule for arms & abs & legs with no gym access & very limited gym equipment
- Bulk one week, cut one week
- Rings for beginners
- Two Months Time to Train
- Went from 115 lbs to 131 lbs thanks to y’all.
- Runtastic PushUps, SitUps, Squats and PullUps
- Fun Workout for Fat and Sedentary
- Still can’t do pull-ups after a month of training. Am I doing something wrong?
- Fitness assessment help
- How'd you get your first strict bar muscle up?
- Tips for 90-degree hold
- Lost 20 pounds! Need helping moving forward
- Gained 15 lbs during quarantine wondering how to lose it
- Gaining muscle mass. Where to start? Should I lose,maintain, or gain weight? Diet?
- Trying to cut for the 2nd time. Any help would be appreciated.
- Sore for more than 3 days after first workout in ages
- Question about abdominal work
- Nearly fainted directly after final back extension set. kinda scary tips on what caused it and what I could do now?
- Why do I look damn weak despite being strong?
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-06-05 Posted: 04 Jun 2021 09:01 PM PDT 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:
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| Total noob and ex drug addict needs help with where to start. Posted: 04 Jun 2021 12:14 PM PDT Hey you lot. I need a bit of advice on where to start with building muscle. I've recently gotten myself of off hard drugs and now I'm going through counselling for alcoholism. I need to focus my energy on something productive, and I want to start building myself up physically now that I've got the psychological side of it sorted. I don't have access to a gym but I've got about £200 I can spare for equipment. I just need some advice on where to start. What to avoid, what supplements to take. Or any advice you can give me. EDIT: Sorry for the terrible formatting but I'm working off of a phone. Just want to say thank you so much for the response guys and girls. I will be reading every post. Might not reply to every one, didnt expect so many to respond. You've all got me massively pumped to get my shit together. Thank you all so much x Edit 2: It's been good to meet some of you mother fuckers. The support has been fan fucking tastic. Been trawling the Internet for suggestions, but actually speaking to people who've gone through it, or have come from a place of knowledge and are willing to share is so fucking cool. Sorry I can't respond to everything, I truly appreciate it. Peace. [link] [comments] |
| Need advice on installing gymnastics rings Posted: 05 Jun 2021 05:19 AM PDT So my family's setting up a new home and I'm planning on making one of the extra rooms as a sort of home gym. I'm planning on having some gymnastic ring mounts installed on the ceiling, but apparently our ceiling is gypsum board and my mom thinks it won't be able to handle my weight. Is this true? I'd like to know your experiences with rings and maybe some alternatives if a ceiling-mounted one really won't work. I'm not sure if this is the right sub for this but i figured this was related to training anyways. I'd greatly appreciate some responses. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2021 12:05 PM PDT I am currently 83.6 kgs. i have been working out with a huge gap year in the middle for one year and 3 months. My current strength level I would say is pushups with an added 35 kgs on my back (one rep max) bicep curl (10kgs for 4/5 reps three sets) I have been working out at home, no gym access.. I have been trying to do bent over rows and negative pullups(bar on two chairs and Pull up while lying on the ground) to strengthen my back muscles. What more exercises can I do to acheive my goal of one pullup [link] [comments] |
| Need a schedule for arms & abs & legs with no gym access & very limited gym equipment Posted: 05 Jun 2021 07:20 AM PDT Here's the situation. Im stuck at home with no way of accessing the gym, and the only weights I have are 10 pound and 5 pound dumbbells. I need a good routine that targets the three areas above, but obviously I can't follow the RR due to not having access to better equipment. (RR requires pullups too, and I can't do a single one of those) The routine doesn't have to target all three areas in one workout, i.e. it could be like arms some days and abs & legs the other days. I'm also concerned about the so called plateau, and I heard you need to change your workouts so your body never gets used to one. How often should I change up my workout routine? With all that in mind, does anyone have a good routine, or know a resource I can go to for one? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2021 05:18 AM PDT I'm currently working one week home, one week on the office. My conmute makes it so I have to wake up at 05:40 and get back home at 20:00. I know, I should find a way to change that, but it's not possible right now. I've been trying to bulk the last 6 months and made some gains which I'm glad for, but the weeks going to the office are always a mess. Usually this weeks I can only make myself workout the first one or two days. The other days I feel so exhausted to the point where I can't get myself to workout. Due to this "one week home one week office" schedule, some friends had suggest me to workout hard and eat at a surplus the weeks I'm home, and the opposite on office weeks, basically doing a bulk one week and a cut the next one. It sounds logical and practical at first glance, but I'm afraid that one week would not be enough duration for building muscle or losing weight, making it a lose of time with no gains. My first priority is gain muscle then get lean. Do you think doing it this way will get me the same results in a similar period of time? Or will it be so much worse? Of course I know this would not be optimal nor near optimal, but in my current situation I really think something sustainable will be better, as right now my office weeks are already far from optimal. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2021 12:19 PM PDT M19, beginner (4x5 dips and 20 push-ups in a row). My gym has some kind of rings in the BWF-section („The cage") installed. My goal is to perform ring-push-ups and -dips. Long time goal maybe muscle ups on rings. Today I tried the rings out and I found it extremely hard to perform even 2 push ups (bad form and incline) on them and my arms were shaking pretty much. Would you guys recommend to train with the rings now or should I wait til I got more (core-)strength? And how would a beginner like me start training with rings? Do you have some advices for me how to approach ring-training? Maybe you know some specific ring-exercises for beginners. Thanks y'all [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2021 12:15 PM PDT Hey, So I recently found out that my fitness test (for the Dutch Marines) is going to be happening around a month earlier than I expected. One of the requirements is to be able to do 4 pull ups in 2 minutes. This on its own doesn't seem too tough to achieve, but it is pretty tough for me apparently. Currently I can do 0. And I've never been able to do any. So my question is really whether or not I can achieve 4 pull ups in 2 months time starting from 0. The exercises for my back that I do are negative pull ups, assisted pull ups (with like 150lbs I can do like 6 so I'm ultra weak pull ups wise) and then the standard gym back exercises like lat pull downs, deadlifts etc. I weigh 200lb, which I'm not really expecting to go up or down at all really. So I'm just wondering whether or not it's hopeless for me to achieve 4 pull ups in 2 months and whether or not I should change my date so I have more time to train. [link] [comments] |
| Went from 115 lbs to 131 lbs thanks to y’all. Posted: 04 Jun 2021 02:29 PM PDT A while back I posted (on an old account that I lost) that I had been working out for months and didn't see progress at all. But, after posting this I had many comments suggesting dieting and eating more calories. I'm 16 M - 5'9 ft. I was 115 and was really really skinny to the point where my confidence would drop a little when I didn't have a shirt off, I always kept good self confidence tho just wasn't that comfortable. After the post I started a journey on the MyFitnessPal app and put in all my info and was supposed to eat around 3k calories a day. I started and I saw almost immediate results. I started training harder when working out pushing for the me I know I could achieve. I now look way better and feel way more confident. Working out not only helps your physical body but your mental health too. Thank y'all to everyone who commented on my old post and helped me. I'm still on the journey and aiming for around 145 lbs this summer. I started being able to barely get a front lever. A pretty bad from muscle up. But can now do around 20 consecutive pull ups. I'm improving drastically and am very happy. I'll keep y'all updated. Thank everyone. [link] [comments] |
| Runtastic PushUps, SitUps, Squats and PullUps Posted: 05 Jun 2021 12:40 AM PDT Bought Pro version of these apps years ago and was happily using them since then. About month ago i've bought new iPhone and after I've rolled out backup, Runtastic apps started asking for authorization which stopped working a while ago. For a few days I had to use old version of android apps (version 1.10 allows skipping authorization) on my Pixel, but experience just wasn't the same. Today I figured a way to bring back iPhone apps to life. I've used Burp Suite to create a proxy, intercepted call to http://appws.runtastic.com/webapps/services/auth/login and replaced response from to which brought apps back to life. Here is video proving that it didn't work and now it does - https://youtu.be/dkBl5zxzNzE If anyone cares, I can post more details on how to do this [link] [comments] |
| Fun Workout for Fat and Sedentary Posted: 05 Jun 2021 01:34 AM PDT I believe that bodyweight fitness lies at the foundation of basically every sport nowadays. More and more athletes find ways through creativity to enhance their abilities. If you play soccer, swim, tennis or anything else, you need some sort of bodyweight training to improve your skills and conditioning. While I did so often in my life, there is a sensible category of sedentary and fat people who would enjoy working out, but they either can't run, dislike cardio or running, hate hard training and even progressive bodyweight workouts. In this situation, I think it requires a different approach because optimal health can never be reached without a little bit of sports and fitness once in a while. However, can you do it FUN so you won't get bored, distracted and so on? I do physical preparations for pro young tennis athletes. I do it all through calisthenics and adapt it to their own particularities, of course. While I was training these kids, it came into my mind a fun cardio workout for this sensible category. Do I ask too much if I place the video below? It's still bodyweight, however, they need a tennis ball and I explain a lot of great things to them there: Fun Workout Thanks! [link] [comments] |
| Still can’t do pull-ups after a month of training. Am I doing something wrong? Posted: 04 Jun 2021 02:57 PM PDT My stats: 26 year-old male, 6'4", ~230lbs I'm someone with limited upper body strength and have only been able to do push-ups since last month. For the past six weeks, I have been doing three sets of 8 negative/anti-pull-ups every other day. I have noticed a difference in that I find it easier to hold myself above the bar and can control my descent more slowly. However, as of last week, I still am not able to do a full pull-up. I'm wondering whether I'm doing something wrong and what I should change? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2021 07:03 PM PDT Hi all, my reason for posting this question is I have started my application to a military academy. One of the admission requirements is to pass and score well on a standardized fitness test. For anyone wanting for background on the fitness test it's call the Cadet Fitness Assessment. I do well on al the other events except for push ups and pull ups. My goal is to be able to do ~95 push ups in 2 mins and ~15 pull ups in 2 mins. I would like to be able to take the assessment by late June. My current record is 55 push ups and 7 pull ups. Any advice on how to get my reps up would be greatly appreciated. TLDR: I want to be able to do 100 push-ups in a row and 20 pull ups in a row. What should I do in order to be able to fast. (Please excuse grammar and spelling typing from my phone) [link] [comments] |
| How'd you get your first strict bar muscle up? Posted: 04 Jun 2021 05:01 PM PDT Yeeeooww Fam! I'm just in over a year of training Calisthenics - but not a newbie when it comes to training and I also am a coach for beginners. One of my goals that I am working towards is the strict bar muscle up and I'm hella keen to learn and soak up your knowledge bombs on how you went about AND or are going your muscle up journey?! I am currently playing around with programming and have been doing 1-2 muscle up specific sessions which include banded muscle ups, eccentrics, explosive pull ups, straight bar dips, and straight arm lat and bicep exercises for building muscle. I'm so keen to connect with those who are on their muscle up journey and or who have been there and or getting started! It's so cool connecting with like minded humans and being apart of eachothers Calisthenics journey's! Thaaaank you ya epic humans! 🙌🏼 [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2021 05:18 PM PDT So currently im super close to reaching the 90-degree hold, which is a good progression for planche and planche pushups. [link] [comments] |
| Lost 20 pounds! Need helping moving forward Posted: 04 Jun 2021 01:17 PM PDT I have lost 20 pounds in the last 4.5 months and am hoping to lose another 15. I am a 26f and have tried many different things in the last few months. What seemed to drop the weight the fastest was doing the Noom app (calorie deficit), mixed with lots of walking/ not much cardio. Early in trying to lose weight I would do cardio and weight lifting and I was very very slowly losing weight even though spending over an hour in the gym. I really enjoy going to the gym and doing cardio and weights but it did not change much on the scale, even though my body was toning. Can anyone suggest what I could be doing better? TIA [link] [comments] |
| Gained 15 lbs during quarantine wondering how to lose it Posted: 04 Jun 2021 09:25 PM PDT To make it short Im a 5"4' female and I always struggled with my weight, for most of my life I was underweight so I always wanted to be a healthy weight about 108-112 lbs, during quarantine my walking areas and main areas of fitness were closed off and I started eating excessively which I know is terrible for me in the long run. I've been trying to control my eating habits, and I've been beginning to jump rope with a weighted jump rope which has been really difficult, my previous weight pre covid was 107 lbs and from two weeks ago it is 126 lbs. Is what I'm currently doing enough to lose 15 lbs or is there something else I should be doing? I hear alot about calorie deficits but I don't want to diet and make myself feel like I have to starve myself to lose weight to be a healthy weight for myself. Thank you :) [link] [comments] |
| Gaining muscle mass. Where to start? Should I lose,maintain, or gain weight? Diet? Posted: 04 Jun 2021 08:59 PM PDT Im a 21F and about 5 feet tall. I used to work out a lot and I feel like I built up a good body composition in the past. However, I got sick and went through a long medical treatment that caused me to lose a lot of weight and I also lost muscle mass. I want to get back into working out but I don't know where to start. I weigh about 100lbs now and Id describe myself as skinny fat. I used to use the MyFitness Pal app to track my calories and macros. I plan to start using it again. My main goal is to build muscle again. Regarding the MyFitnessPal app, should I set up my plan to gain 0.5-1lb a week, maintain weight, or lose 0.5-1lb a week? I was thinking about losing some weight first to cut down a little on fat around my abdomen area and then gaining weight again later to build muscle, but I already don't weigh a lot. Should I bulk up first and then cut down later? I did this in the past but I found it pretty hard to cut down after bulking up. Also, what are some good protein sources that aren't dairy? What's the most effective diet that helped you gain muscle mass? I know everyone's different but I'd still like to hear some ideas. [link] [comments] |
| Trying to cut for the 2nd time. Any help would be appreciated. Posted: 04 Jun 2021 08:17 PM PDT So, basically about 3 months ago i Was 182 lbs and had belly/chest fat and I went on diet to lose weight. I didnt always eat the best of meals but I tried to stick to diet. It's been now about 2 months I stopped dieting and exercising. I still have my belly fat,( although some clothes do fit more loosely). And I checked my scale now and it says I'm currently 170ish lbs (I'm not sure though because it sometimes is inaccurate), and I'm trying to get to 155-160ish. I'm trying to start dieting again. But I just need some help in regards to my dieting and exercising. Firstly, my maintenance are around 2500 calories and although 500 deficit is ideal, I really wanna lose weight fast because I'm afraid i will quit again and become undedicated if I dont, so I'm aiming for about 700-800 deficit. Has anybody ever tried this before? Secondly, for my diet, I'm just not sure what to do for my protein intake. I am picky eater, (i dont like eggs or protein powder).I usually have chicken breast, Greek yogurt and peanut butter. But sometimes I cant get it so I just end up eating some extra carbs to reach my calorie limit. Is this effective if anybody has tried before? Lastly: exercise. I do all my workouts at home, I have one 20lb dunbell and 1 resistance band. I usually just search on youtube random 10 to 30 min workouts that I can do with these items and just do those. I try to exercise 2 to 3 times a week, and I was thinking of including short hiit workout also but would it help? Also, would it be good for me to try and lose weight while also doing these exercises alongside the dieting to help build some muscle? I would really appreciate anybody's input and help. Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Sore for more than 3 days after first workout in ages Posted: 04 Jun 2021 03:47 PM PDT Hey all, Before covid, i would hit gym twice in a week or something. I wasn't buff but I'd say i was in good shape since i was pretty active. Since the start of 2019, when lockdown started, i became pretty inactive and became somewhat overweight. I virtually did no excerise at all. This week i was finally able to hit gym again but it was so hard and i was out of energy fairly quickly even tho i barely lifted. I was completely exhausted. It has been 3 days now since my first session and im still sore. Barely able to move my arms. Is this normal? Is there anything i can do to improve this? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2021 03:46 PM PDT Hello! Quarantine crewman here that has finally gotten to the point where I can do a full L-sit for a few seconds! I struggled with the L-sit since starting my training last year until I found Tom Merricks compression routine a few months back, which I've been doing twice a week since. However, I only have so much time in a day, and had forgone doing general ab work for the focus of Merrick's routine. Now that I've finally gotten to a point where I can truly practice the L-sit, should I go back to general ab work? FYI, I was doing the P90X routine before focusing on the L-sit. Any advice is appreciated! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Jun 2021 07:22 PM PDT Hey! I'm relatively new to working out, and have only started doing it seriously during the last 5 or so months. I have never had anything like this happen before, and don't have a history of this sort of thing. Today, during my final set of back extensions, I got up on the last rep and felt the usual burn followed by light headedness. Got off the machine and, as soon as my feet hit the floor, my vision went black for around a second and my knees buckled. I was able to catch myself before falling all the way to the floor by leaning on a wall, but it was still pretty scary. For context, I had a dentist appointment early in the day so I was working out in the afternoon vs the morning. I didn't have really good sleep last night (around 6 hours), and hadn't eaten much during the day so basically on an empty stomach. I distinctly remember exhaling during the set of back extensions, but I'm not sure if I was actually inhaling... I know. Stupid. Anyways, before you go down there and tell me how dumb the context is, and that I deserved to have my face meet the nice and hygienic floor of the gym , I'm curious which of these is most likely the cause? Or if it was probably just everything put together. ALSO! Should I do anything specific now? I'm still feeling a bit light headed and dizzy, but I'm not sure if it's just my anxiety telling me something is wrong or if I'm suddenly going to faint while typsdggfjgjnvzxdf I'm currently trying to eat a bit to see how it sits, been staying hydrated and had some sugar water just in case. Thanks for the responses :) [link] [comments] |
| Why do I look damn weak despite being strong? Posted: 05 Jun 2021 12:29 AM PDT Like I can lift weights my classmates cant. I can easily beat most of them in arm wrestling. Yet the thing is everyone around me underestinmates me and it makes me so effin sad. Like, everyone offers me help when I lift even relatively small luggage. They keep pressing saying "you might be tired by now,lets us help and other bs" Yet they do not ask this when other people my age lift even heavier luggage. It even embarassing when someone fucking younger than you asks you this. This is so effin common when I go to family gatherings and stuff. I'm tired of being underestimated like this dude...like.. This is gonna sound funny but is there a way I can look strong [link] [comments] |
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