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- BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-08-09
- My front lever progressions of 2.5 years and some things I have learned
- My one year push up anniversary was yesterday. From 1 to *. Are my results decent?
- Hit a HUGE Milestone Today. 100 Navy Seals in Under 21 Minutes.
- Thoughts on training like a NYC Calisthenic Athlete?
- Advice for whether I should continue cutting or start slow-gaining again!
- Realistic goals and keeping yourself motivated?
- Gained 6lbs in a week?
- I've reached a plateau in my BWF journey and I would really appreciate some tips, I have 2 questions!
- Can you get stretch marks from ab exercises?
- Struggling to lose weight
- GIRLS - Do you train at home?
- Questioning about how to make my workout progress
- I need Advice on How I can get Back to My Previous Physical State
- Workout partner Austin Tx downtown area
- Moving to a fat loss program - focus on recovery
| BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2021-08-09 Posted: 09 Aug 2021 04:00 AM 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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| My front lever progressions of 2.5 years and some things I have learned Posted: 09 Aug 2021 12:19 AM PDT Hello there, about two and a half years I began training calisthenics. The skills back then really caught my eye, and I decided to focus on them. I mainly focussed on the front lever and the planche. Now two and a half years later, I think I can call myself intermediate at the front lever. Here are some things I learned so others can benefit from them.
For the people who are interested, here is a link to a video of my progression, I hope it can motivate some of you! [link] [comments] |
| My one year push up anniversary was yesterday. From 1 to *. Are my results decent? Posted: 09 Aug 2021 08:30 AM PDT Hi guys, I'm new here and want to share my push up journey that I've been through for a year now. I also have some questions that I hope I can get answered. Background: So prior to starting doing push ups back in August 2020, I had no real experience with push ups except from PE in middle school a decade ago (and I was shit at it)... I'm in my mid-twenties now and on day one of doing normal push ups, I was able to do one rep. I started this journey with knee push ups until some YT fitness guy claimed that you can't necessarily convert your progress here to being able to do normal push ups. Thus, moved over to normal push ups where I eventually started doing three sets to failure. At first, I did push ups every day, then it was every other day, and now it's twice a week. Results: Start date early August 2020: 1 (by mid August it was 8) End date 3 August 2021: 32 push ups in first rep, 49 total after three sets to failure I'm reading a lot online that passing 50+ in the first year is easy, which makes me wonder why my progress has been this slow. I am proud of myself, especially since I frankly hate push ups and some days forcefully do them. My excel spreadsheet (the blue indicates personal best): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vS9l9cY6h9qQUbnaAV6NaiAeGWnOauCKQVq2wCNHS3a3sCVjwYFdu4wEIX5arRBJvXnjRpHTCRnk4D5/pubhtml?gid=273160614&single=true Questions: Things I've been thinking about which I hope I can get answered are: - How come when I always do these three sets to failure workouts, I don't always see an increase in first rep. max? Just check my spreadsheet. - Does this affect chest hypertrophy? As in, is always going to failure but not seeing a linear increase in first rep. max. a problem if I want bigger chest? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Hit a HUGE Milestone Today. 100 Navy Seals in Under 21 Minutes. Posted: 09 Aug 2021 09:09 AM PDT Hello all, I am very fond of the humble burpee. I do burpee routines 3 times a week and legs, core and pull routines 2 times a week. I try and mix it up with variations but the most difficult variation for me has always been the navy seal so I made it my goal to do 100 in under 25 minutes while keeping the best possible form. Well today I SMASHED what I was hoping to do and did it in under 21 minutes. It was right at 20 minutes and 58 seconds (I think). It was the most difficult 21 minutes of my life but I did it! I recorded it incase was interested in seeing them. Please comment on my form and let me know of any areas I can improve! [link] [comments] |
| Thoughts on training like a NYC Calisthenic Athlete? Posted: 08 Aug 2021 10:20 PM PDT Guys like Ripright, Joe and Shaq on ThatsGoodMoney YT channel, BrolyGains, Scott Burnhard etc, these guys train with either these "routines" that they make up like 100 pushups and 50 pull ups in 5-10 min and just with super high volume and frequency of the basics pushups, dips, pull ups, chin ups, I dont see them do inverted rows too often but I'd include them too. Just tons of reps and endurance work. I honestly believe most of them are natty, if they're not doing a certain program or worrying about overtraining, how can they have become so muscular and strong? Like these guys dont worry about working logs or deloads or total volume of reps and sets and some of them like ripright dont even have a optimal diet. I see guys worry on this subreddit (even me) so many times about the tiniest things about their training but these guys just go the park and train and are pretty strong and look good. Whats the deal? Especially cause they train in such high rep ranges. (No hate btw just curious) EDIT: Thanks for all the answers! I got some really interesting comments and a lot of them answered my question! I dont think I'll fully incorporate their training methods into my routine but add some of their principles in such as keeping it basic with more volume. [link] [comments] |
| Advice for whether I should continue cutting or start slow-gaining again! Posted: 09 Aug 2021 05:08 AM PDT Hey everyone! I've always had stubborn belly fat and recently I've tried to lose weight in an effort to get rid of it. While I notice I've gotten more cut and upper abs are showing more it feels like the lower belly fat is never going to disappear. I'm already now at a pretty low weight (184cm / 71kg), I've lost 4kg during two months (from 75kg), and I'm not sure I should be losing more since I have no idea how much I have to lose for that lower belly fat to go away. Does anyone have experience with this? Did you have to lose quite a lot for abs to show better? My training history is basically off and on non-serious training for a couple of years, with 2021 actually being consistently training 3 times a week on a slight variation of the RR, adding a 8 minute ab cycle in the end. So, I get that the answer will be "it depends on your goals". I would like to get the abs showing more but I also don't want to weigh 65kg being 184cm as I think it would be detrimental to the rest of my muscle physique. Any pointers, tips, support would be great. Right now the plan is to lose weight down to 70kg and then re-evalutate, probably going on a slow gain after that up to ~75-78kg, hopefully being back at my previous weight with a better physique. [link] [comments] |
| Realistic goals and keeping yourself motivated? Posted: 09 Aug 2021 01:36 AM PDT When I was starting on my callisthenics journey, setting goals and reaching them was easy. But now that I've burned through all of the "unfit person" goals like "first dip" or "first pull-up", it's hard to keep yourself motivated. I'm pretty sure I am still ways off from the front lever or hand stands (potentially years off from those). And while I still progress, going from, for example, "unable to do dips at all" to "being able to do them" feels way more impactful than "adding 1kg to a weighted exercise that you already could do". I'd love to hear from you guys how do you keep yourself motivated as intermediate athletes and stories of how you kept setting realistic goals that still felt fulfilling. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2021 08:45 AM PDT Hey guys. First time posting here. So the reason I'm here today is I am on a bulking diet and I noticed that I gain much more than 2 lbs this week. So some details, I'm 26M and I'm 5 foot 8 inches. At the beginning of the week (last monday) I weighed 146.4 pounds with a body fat of 13.2 percent. Today (7 days later) I noticed I'm 151.8 pounds with a body fat of about 16.2. My issue is my bulking calories is 3500. I spent a couple weeks eating at 3000 calories and my weight never moved, not even a decimal point, so I took this as my theoretical mainteince. What should I do? Reduce to 3250? Strength is increasing and I have noticeable increase in muscle mass. Protien intake is always in the 0.8 to 1.0 grams per lbs of body weight. TLDR: I gained more than 2lbs of weight after eating 500 above mainteince in terms of calories. Protien intake is nominal. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2021 05:28 AM PDT TLDR: My posterior chain is weak in comparison to the front of my body, and I would love some tips on how to isolate my lats and send my strength "back" without straining my shoulders. I am not a novice lifter, but I am fairly imbalanced in muscle strength and am struggling to gain weight/break old movement habits. Coming from a fitness-uneducated background in water polo, I struggle to activate my posterior chain without blowing out my shoulders. I'm 20F and 125 lbs, can technically DL 135 lb and squat 115 lb for 3 sets of 6-8, but am a little discouraged by the hunch in my back and the way my shoulders/armpits look (my pecs and front delts pull me forward). I try warming up with lat stuff every time I do DL's, focus on pulling my shoulder blades down and back, but I still struggle to find my lats without tweaking my shoulders, and I am pretty nervous that I'm doing exercises wrong because of this. Does anyone else struggle with this problem? I'd really appreciate any suggestions on how to effectively get my posterior chain strengthened and effective fast. [link] [comments] |
| Can you get stretch marks from ab exercises? Posted: 09 Aug 2021 11:01 AM PDT Yesterday after my usual ring workout I did some intense (for me) ab exercises with resistance bands, got a really good burn. I got red around the upper abs (I always get a bit red there when training abs) just the normal amount which after a while goes away. But some red lines formed in one side, look like scratches and they hurt a bit when touching, like a skin rash would hurt. They formed there almost right after the sets. I know bodybuilders can get stretch marks from lifting too much weights but is it possible to get something like this in your abs from just some intense sets? Here's two pictures: https://imgur.com/a/zEkDl7f [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2021 09:42 AM PDT Hey Guys! I am a 6'1 17, year old male who weighs around 182lbs right now, my goal right now is to reach 170 with high protein intake in order to maintain a low body fat and get definition in my body. However, the past 2 weeks no matter how hard I try, it seems the pounds don't come off at all. Daily, I eat around 1100 calories, my diet consists of, 2 eggs or a piece of toast for breakfast, a chicken breast or salmon filet for lunch and a protein shake at night. To add, I do 50 mins daily of elyptical, plus 1hr in bodyweight workouts and an extra 20 in freeweight workouts targeting abs and chest. As I hope you can see, my schedule is pretty fit and intensive but however, daily, I still fail to see the kgs drop off the scale and it is getting annoying and maddening as I'm sure you all can understand. My question now is, what else can I do? I am at a loss for what else I can do to drop this weight as it clearly is not coming off. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 09 Aug 2021 08:46 AM PDT Hey girls! A few days ago I decided to start training and improve my eating habits ... by working all day sitting in an office, I felt worse and worse. I imagine with this COVID thing, those of you who already had a habit of training will have continued doing so from home, so I wanted to ask what you base yourself on to prepare your training. I have searched a bit on YouTube and a girl like Pamela Reif is cool but I get lost a bit with so many too intense trainings. I also found a girl (Susana I think) who has online videos but I hurt myself following one of her workouts. The last girl I've seen (BuildYourBody https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYy8yLGNrWHKy-zUz9Ypfmg), unfortunately she has just a few videos yet (I hope she continues to post) but after training my whole body was aching (in a good way), I tried the abs one and they are still aching 3 days later lol. My goal is to lose a little weight and improve my shape a bit, I am 35 years old. What do you think? Does anyone else train with Pamela? What do you think, are her workouts effective? Did any of you train with that girl BuildYourBody, do you think she does it well? Thanks everyone! [link] [comments] |
| Questioning about how to make my workout progress Posted: 09 Aug 2021 07:40 AM PDT Hi everyone ! Sorry for the othograph, I'm french. So I started to train something like 3 weeks ago, after a long period of forced pause due to tennis elbow. I bought rings. Right now my workout is a PPL. For the push, I do 4x8 rings push ups, 4x8 ring dips, 4x8 kind of "ring butterfly" and another exercice, inclined push ups, also 4x8. I don't use weight for the past 3 weeks. Should I add a HSPU variation instead of inclined push ups ? For the pull session I mainly do rings pull ups, 90 degrees chin ups to focus more on biceps, horizontal pull in a tuck front lever position, and I end with another set of ring pull ups. I'm gonna start adding weight on pull ups today. I do legs on wednesday and sunday. So I guess my workout is not optimal ? For the info I used to train on bars before my injury, with weighted dips, push ups, pull ups, but I think rings will strengthen deep muscles and the tendons better right ? Also I want to progress on volume, strength and static figures (FL, HS, BL...). My question is, how do you work on 3 items like that ? Do I have to train on 4 to 8 weeks workout programm and alternate btw volume, strength and isometric every 4 or 8 weeks ? Thanks for your time [link] [comments] |
| I need Advice on How I can get Back to My Previous Physical State Posted: 09 Aug 2021 04:18 AM PDT So I'm a 14M and I'm starting highschool in the fall. Quarantine really fucked me up physically. Before quarantine I had a pretty decent 4 pack and I could do 15-20 pushups. Now my stomach has gotten kinda flabby and my bodyfat % is 25%. I can barely do 3 pushups now. I don't have access to a gym but I do play lots of basketball. I can't find a routine I keep trying but I go for 1-2 weeks and then I just get demotivated. What do you suggest I could do to get back to my previous physical state. I've been looking online but I didnt find the most clear answers. What did other people who fell off during quarantine do? Thanks [link] [comments] |
| Workout partner Austin Tx downtown area Posted: 09 Aug 2021 04:14 AM PDT Looking for a lifting partner open to different gym options. 3-5 days/week depending on your schedule. Early am or after 5 options. [link] [comments] |
| Moving to a fat loss program - focus on recovery Posted: 08 Aug 2021 05:48 PM PDT Looking for some advice to program for my current goals. I have been doing the RR for about 4 months. Just took a week off to recoup and re-evaluate. Also, of note, I'm 43 years old, 6'-2" 205 pounds. Just to set expectations here, you young'uns :-P For the last few months, I have been doing the RR 3 days a week with 2 days for skills. On skill day I will train 5 min L-Sit, 5 Min hand stands and 3 sets of pikes, 3 sets of scap push ups and sometimes abs. The last few weeks I have been getting really tired and fatigued in my shoulders and back. I feel like the skill days are sapping my recovery. I am also looking to move to a more fat loss-based program since I am a bit heavier than I want to be. Add to that I plan to do into a deficit, and the energy concerns become even more real. I am thinking of moving to the RR replacing squats with Bulgarian splits, and making my skill days a one skill train, handstand or L-sits, and then 30 min of cardio, probably stairs. Is there some other configuration that would be better? any other changes anyone would recommend with the goals of fat loss and recovery? [link] [comments] |
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