Bodyweight Fitness: BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-07-07 |
- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-07-07
- This shi- is ego-shatteringly humbling. Discussion/thoughts. Advice if you're feeling generous.
- Avatar Korra changed my body positivity - for the better
- I need help/advice on why Im not losing fat!
- Sets and reps, recommended routine for hypertrophy. Too much volume?
- Advice on what Sports Hobbies I should stick to or can I do all?
- Why is this stuff so hard?!?!
- Help with caloric intake - continue trying to recomp or bulk for better gains?
- Looking for approval of edits to RR
- Need advice fixing not 1 not 2 but 3 imbalances
- Feeling the pike push ups in my back?
- Should I do pul ups with wrist injury from handstands?
- Hi Everyone, Please evaluate my workout routine and let me know what you think
- Did I sleep enough to gain?
- Advice and Recommendations for a beginner at the gym
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-07-07 Posted: 07 Jul 2021 04:01 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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| This shi- is ego-shatteringly humbling. Discussion/thoughts. Advice if you're feeling generous. Posted: 08 Jul 2021 04:34 AM PDT I consider myself a pretty strong dude. Military for almost 20 years, competitive power-lifter, 10+ years of dedicated gym-based weight training. 6'1, 230lbs, just under 14% bodyfat as of my last DXA scan ~6 months ago. Not intended to be a flex, but just explaining that I'm in really good shape - or so I thought. Back surgery a while ago made super heavy deads and squats just not my peak interest anymore and since they were my absolute favorite exercises my gym time feels unsatisfying without them. Because of this I recently decided I wanted to transition to a bodyweight fitness focus because it's new and it's been a low buzz in the back of my head to eventually try for the past few years. I figured with my history and strength levels that traditionally aggressive goals were more reasonable for me so I decided on the following as my goals:
Well, I like routines so I decided to go with the ThenX app because I have no idea how to form a workout around exercises that don't involve heavy compound lifts. I super-setted his BEGINNER handstand routine with his BEGINNER muscle-up reqs and i am more exhausted than any 4+ plate bench session has left me in years. I'm also now acutely aware of how poorly raw strength translates into functional strength. Not to mention flexibility is now an insane issue. my "pike" probably looks like someone tipped a carpenter's square over. Doing a handstand left my shoulders so far in front of my body it's probably comical. It's insane to me because I've been doing pushups, situps, pullups, etc. for years. I'm still positive that I'll get to where I want to be, but it was just a humbling first experience. I you have similar stories or if you have different suggestions on the most effective way to reach the goals I outlined for myself I'd be interested in reading them. [link] [comments] |
| Avatar Korra changed my body positivity - for the better Posted: 08 Jul 2021 12:05 PM PDT Let me start at the beginning. I am blessed by my father's farmer genes of getting muscular pretty quickly. It's easy for me to loose and gain muscle. From the age of 9, I was on the swim team, and got teased for how "buff" I was. My traps and legs are pretty thick naturally, and my shoulder/back/arm/ab muscles got shredded from training for my events (100 breast and 100 free), which are "sprinting" events. I've never been able to do endurance events because I have asthma. I stopped training in high school because I was so worried I didn't look womanly enough, and because I wanted to focus on academics. I've always had a bit of a frustration with my body, because I love feeling strong, but I am self-conscious about my muscles. In college, I started only doing yoga occasionally and I biked a lot just to try and stay trim. At 24, I started training for a 5k and collapsed from an acute asthma attack. My doctor said shouldn't attempt endurance sports, and that I should find a salt water (non-chlorinated) pool which has been really great at not triggering my asthma before. So I've been trying to swim more since then, but I get discouraged when I just keep gaining more and more muscle and staying at 25-30% body fat. My doc says I'm in the ideal weight range for my age/height, and told me not to worry about losing weight. But I wasn't happy with the way I looked. So I watched Avatar Korra earlier this year in the pandemic, right as I was getting complacent and not working out as much as I should because my pool closed. And fuck. She's a badass, has a purpose in life, has complex emotions, is super smart, is a little stubborn and has to work through her issues, has multiple love interests, etc. and she's got real shoulders. She's relatable emotionally. And she's muscled. And without being extremely low BFP and defined either, like most "goals" pics I see. I've never seen representation before for my body type in anything I've watched. I've felt so much better about working out, I even find myself getting excited about the thought of getting swole :) My new goal is Korra/Amazon woman and I'm loving exercising in a way I've not felt since I was a kid. How do y'all feel about having media representation, and a body idol, for what is actually achievable in your own body? Also I'd love any recommendations for "real life" strong women who look like Korra - I want a goal board to keep me motivated :) [link] [comments] |
| I need help/advice on why Im not losing fat! Posted: 08 Jul 2021 09:05 AM PDT Is there such a thing where the body needs a while in a caloric deficit before it starts to lose the fat? Are there things someone can do to really kick start fat loss if calorie deficit just isn't working? I go to the gym every day. Every other day I weight train (pushing for progressive overload) and finish the session with a 30 minute exercise bike ride at a decent intensity (15mph). Days I don't train I ride the bike for 60 minutes. I'm currently eating around 1600 calories a day and I am 6'2 205lb. My BMR is around 1900 calories. I know that people are terrible at counting calories and therefore I have been eating meals with less ingredients to make it easier to track as well as measuring all the cooking oils and liquids I drink etc. I'm being strict as fuck and the scale isn't budging!! Probably lost 1 pound in a month. I even went to test my blood to see if I had thyroid issues or something and I'm all "healthy" so wtf. Any advice on things I could do to help with this would be super appreciated! I'm tired of feeling uncomfortable in my body and busting my ass to get there. I don't want to develop an unhealthy relationship with food either. Any advice would be really helpful! Thank you. [link] [comments] |
| Sets and reps, recommended routine for hypertrophy. Too much volume? Posted: 08 Jul 2021 07:29 AM PDT Hi guys i've been doing the recommended routine for about 6 months since january 2021. First a bit of background. About a year ago i was underweight 8.5-9stone 5ft9" I put on 2.5-3 stone in 2 months over lockdown and decided to try and get fit. I began following bullyjuice on youtube doing follow along bodyweight videos. I couldn't even do 10 push ups or more than one pull up. Then i decided to try my own routine that consisted of doing ladder sets of push ups, bench dips, chin ups and bicep curls. Doing two ladders of 10 reps each exercise apart from pull ups where i just did as many as i could. I got my gym rings around xmas time and began the RR. In the RR it is a strength based routine but I am still really skinny, being 70kg. I would like to train more for hypertrophy. My routine is this Warm up 3x60s wall handstands 2x60s RTO static support hold Right now i'm doing 5x9 chin ups 5x9 dips 5x12 dumbbell squats with 10kg each hand (i know i need a barbell, but i do a lot of squatting and bending at work, im a gardener and spend most days weeding. I also cycle the commute. I'll get a barbell eventually for more weight but its fine for now.) 5 sets of tuck Lsit (averaging about 20 seconds per set) 5x9 RTO push ups 5x6 tuck front lever rows As an additional back and pulling exercise i do 5x8 ring rows. Im pretty consistently hitting those reps (woth good form) although i do sometimes struggle the last set or two getting a few reps less. Is this too much volume and should i move into the harder progressions, ideally i am aiming for hypertrophy. My diet and sleep need some work but im getting on it, i just like going to the pub lol so dont always look after myself. Its only this last month i dropped from 11.5 to 11 stone but im still making progress in the repetitions. Should i move on to the next progressions, i was thinking maybe wait til i get to 5x10 of most of the exercises. I think my form is pretty good apart from the tuck lsit as my knees flare out but im working on it. [link] [comments] |
| Advice on what Sports Hobbies I should stick to or can I do all? Posted: 08 Jul 2021 01:11 PM PDT So I want to be in Martial Arts so I can learn self discipline and self defense.I also feel like I would be more motivated since I'm around people as my self esteem and self motivation is low. I also want to get into Parkour because it seems fun and gives you this kinda freedom and I've always wanted to do it since highschool.. I also thought Rock climbing might be fun.I was also thinking of getting in into running also so I can increase my stamina and run speed. Which one do you recommend me do?Parkour or Martial arts?I like both but I can't decide because I've always pushed Parkour to the side only know landing and rolls since I've always been busy and with Martial Arts I never got to try it but always wanted to.Rock Climbing seem fun as well. I am 21 years old from the U.S but I haven't worked out since I left Highschool.I was wanting to get into all of these but I don't know if it's possible to. Is it possible to get into all these at the same time or am only going to be able to stick to one? [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2021 12:28 PM PDT Its not only hard physically, but also in terms of putting a routine together. I'm used to high volume workouts and to be honest, its what I enjoy. I have come from a CrossFit background (cue the bashing, its fine, I loved it but I get the hate). Fuck man, its so humbling. I am pretty strong for my weight: 80KG bodyweight All at around 12/14% bodyweight. Well, at least I thought I was strong. I've tried myself a few skill moves and fuck they're hard man. I can do pull ups with 50KG attached. Can handstand walk pretty far. Can do over 20 strict handstand push ups. Have a 60KG weighted dip. But honestly, I've not found a lot of stuff so hard in ages. I hate being shite at stuff and its genuinely making me want to quit but I know in 6 months or so, even a year or two, when I can do all the cool skills I'll be happy I stuck it out. Does anyone have any routines they can recommend to me? I like to train 5/6 times per week, so anything that follows that sort of plan and includes the cool skills (FSHSPU, Planche, FL, BL, strict muscle up etc) that would be really kind of you. [link] [comments] |
| Help with caloric intake - continue trying to recomp or bulk for better gains? Posted: 07 Jul 2021 09:43 PM PDT Hi! So I've been following the recommended routine since January and have made good progress strength wise. I started at 175cm, 68kg, 21m and ~18%bf(this was measured about 3 years ago but I doubt it's changed much at the point I started). When I started I could do 0 pull ups, 8 pushups. I'm now at 10 pull ups max and 20 pushups max. (These are the main 2 exercises I've been focusing on as a metric for strength, but I still do the other exercises in the rr like pike pushups, rows, squats etc.) So I think it's fair to say I've gotten stronger. However looks wise I still look pretty skinny fat, don't get me wrong I definitely look better now than I did in Jan, but it's like only a difference id notice cos I see myself shirtless everyday. Ive been eating 2000-2200 calories a day with 100g+ protien minimum. I also walk somewhere between 8000-10000 steps a day. My weight also hasn't changed I'm still 68kgs. Would it be advisable to up my calorie intake to say the 2500 range and lean bulk? Or should I just continue with what I'm doing. As I haven't really plateaued in terms of strength yet. I'd just like to gain some actual muscle mass My main concern is if I gain mass by design bodyweight movements will get harder, but at the same time surely if they're harder I'll gain more strength since I'm moving more weight even if my total reps go down? I'm not really sure what would be more optimal. My goal rn is to just build a strong muscular base, I'm not particularly interested in learning any skills. I prefer doing basic movements with higher rep ranges like how Kyle boggeman talks about on his yt channel. Which is why I've decided to stick with pushups and pull-ups despite being able to do more than 3x8 of each. Not really the main point of this post but his channel is here if interested: https://youtube.com/user/Kbogea [link] [comments] |
| Looking for approval of edits to RR Posted: 08 Jul 2021 10:54 AM PDT Hello, I am considering a few edits to the RR as I get back into the gym and seeking input: - Alternating front squat and trap bar deadlift between workouts (I cannot do back squats or barbell deadlifts due to lower back injury) instead of performing both every session. - Including overhead press or HSPU progression in addition to other push exercises. I am looking to target my shoulders. If these sound reasonable I guess I am wondering how I would effectively program. Alternating squat/hinge will mess with the pairing of the RR so I'm trying to imagine what the most fluid rhythm would be. I could include my shoulder work in a pair but I am wondering if it would also be best to alternate overhead press with my dips or push ups as I don't want to create an imbalance with my pulls. Any thoughts would be appreciated thank you!! [link] [comments] |
| Need advice fixing not 1 not 2 but 3 imbalances Posted: 07 Jul 2021 10:40 PM PDT I'm a 16 year old kid that's really into calisthenics, I've gotten great results but the imbalances I've been getting are starting to bug me. I always heard that I just need to keep working and the imbalances will fix themselves but they still haven't and I'm getting desperate for help. Firstly my Chest Although im right hand dominate my left pec is always taking most the load during lifts, I rarely feel a contraction on my right pec. I figured it could be due to my right arm doing most the work and my left pec having to balance so ive been trying to be more left arm dominate recently but to no avail. Secondly my Back This is probably due to my right arm dominance again which would explain why I have more lat muscle on my left side than compared to my right, again ive been trying to become more left arm dominate these last few weeks but still don't felt anymore contraction or muscle growth. Lastly my Biceps This is the strangest one, so the actual bicep on my left arm is bigger but when I'm not actually flexing my bicep on my right arm is bigger and not only that but my right bicep is actually more toned but not bigger than my left???? This post is just a cry for help, any advice is greatly appreciated. [link] [comments] |
| Feeling the pike push ups in my back? Posted: 08 Jul 2021 05:02 AM PDT I have been doing pike push ups for the past 2 months and I am not sure if I am supposed to feel muscle soreness in the back between my shoulder blades on the day after. Its there for a day after the workout and then goes away. I dont feel sore at all in my shoulders, though I feel them during the exercise. Could it maybe be that I lack flexibility to do the exercise correctly? I have a hard time keeping my legs and back straight at the same time and my back constantly wants to round out during the exercise. Sometimes I do them with my legs not completely straight so I can keep my back in check. Do I need to adjust my form and/or flexibility? Or is it normal for that part of the back to get a bit strained and trained as well? [link] [comments] |
| Should I do pul ups with wrist injury from handstands? Posted: 07 Jul 2021 09:03 PM PDT As the title says, i injured my wrist from doing handstands. I had been doing HS against the wall consistently and finally feeling good abt having momentary control taking the feet off the wall while upside down. I recently sprained my left wrist coming off the wall, but it only hurts in an extended position (like a handstand). It hurts enough that i cant put any weight pushing on it, but doesnt hurt at all when i pull. I would really like to keep on my pull ups, which i perform 3x a week. Has anyone been in a similar situation? Do you think its ok to keep training my pulls? I intend to give handstands a rest, but Id be really bummed if I had to stop pull ups too. Injuries are so frustrating.... [link] [comments] |
| Hi Everyone, Please evaluate my workout routine and let me know what you think Posted: 07 Jul 2021 08:48 PM PDT So a little back story here, I used to be a slob with all the bad habits ( smoking, waking up late, no exercise ) but I decided to do some changes. so for over the past 6 months, I started walking/running ( I am skinny but I do have a lot of fat in the abdomen area ) and got into the habit of waking up early and stopping smoking. Now I am following a weekly routine like this: 3 days - running 3.2 kms 3 days - 4 sets of (16 pushups, 16 squats, 16 crunches, 16 bicycle crunch ) 1 day - rest I have been doing this for the last 1 month and each week I have been added 300 meters to my running and 2 reps to each exercise when a new week comes. so basically I started with 2.3kms on a run and 10 reps of each exercise around 1 month back. This routine has become a bit difficult for me mainly with the push-ups, at the 4th set I do reach muscle failure and can't lift myself at the 13th or 14th rep. I don't add pullups or any other equipment-based exercise because I live in a rented accommodation where I can't install anything on the wall or floor and doing any modification is strictly forbidden. So I just wanted to know what were thoughts were. I am sure you all would have some insightful opinions and suggestions and it would be great to listen to them. Thanks for reading and have a nice day! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 08 Jul 2021 01:42 AM PDT So I had one of the best and most intense upper body workouts I've had in a while, and i thought this one is gonna make gains, then after eating a ton came time to sleep.. It was super bright and this seemingly invisible mosquito loved my fucking ear, eventually after falling in and out of sleep i managed to get 6h and 44m of total sleep, 13 MINUTES of Deep Sleep, 4h 18m light sleep and 2h 17m REM sleep. How detrimental is this horrible night gonna be to my gains? Appearently this post was too short for r/bodyweightfitness so some additional information, I'm 15 years old and have been consistently working out for a very long time, i was definitely in a calorie surplus and have been sleeping very badly for a long time now because it's summer, and when its summer in Sweden it doesn't get dark, ever, and i can't fucking sleep if it's not dark [link] [comments] |
| Advice and Recommendations for a beginner at the gym Posted: 07 Jul 2021 03:09 PM PDT Hello! I've recently started at the gym as I am currently quite skinny and I hope to add a bit more muscle to myself. Before going to the gym, I would eat 1,200 calories a day. Currently now eating around 1,800 - 2000 calories. As well as this I'm trying to eat around 80 - 100 grams of protein a day now. I've set myself a little gym program (Ill link them at the bottom) that I try to fit into an hour and was hoping anyone could give me advice on it and if I'm missing any important stuff. Here is my program I have two sessions that I rotate every odd day e.g Day 1 then rest then Day 2 then rest then Day 1. Day 1 & Day 2 Workout: https://imgur.com/a/0JtUb8p For any understanding, I'm a male weighing around 60kg and have a height of 169 cm. Cheers for all replies and advice:) [link] [comments] |
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