Strength Training through Calisthenics

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Jesus Swept dijo:
I've gone from to being barely able to do 1 pullup and having to do negative pullups as a cope to doing as many as 4 sets of 3 from a dead hang with good form. Same thing with dips - I've gone from negatives only to doing 6 in a row and coming back for multiple sets.

Every time I see someone else doing pullups they're practically swinging themselves up and down and kicking with their legs. I don't know if it's some meme crossfit thing or if people are just retarded and lazy but that can't be doing anything for your body.
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It's not just crossfitters, who do their bizarre windmill thing. The majority of people who do not specialize in pull ups do not lockout their elbows and dead hang at the bottom.

I sometimes watch do these on-the-spot pull up challenge videos and the dude always lets people get away without locking out. He'll sometimes say it but then just keep counting reps. Everyone so focused with getting above the bar. When I started my dead hang to active hang transition was the hardest part, not the top.

Gym-bro with "30 reps": https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NIbwmrVaous
Beach-bum surf teacher with the cleanest 15 reps on the whole channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrFzAQIICb8
 
I like to do those retarded kicking, swaying pullups as a dropset, after going to failure with good form first. I fucking love it, all rules go out of the window and I can just swing and twitch in my natural pathetic state
 
CrunkLord420 dijo:
does this count as weighted calisthenics?
Wheelchair muscle ups (close grip) ♿️🦍 [EuWaS1QHVl4].webm
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Only if the wheelchair is heavier than his legs would be?

Working my way to 5 one handed push ups on the right, 4 on the left. I didn't expect to have that much difference when I started doing it. I'm trying to even it out but I wonder if it's more a question of strength asymmetry or because I'm more comfortable and agile on the right, and being less tense makes it easier overall.
My goal is the planche push up by the end of summer, starting in negative to feel the movement.
 
Lords Greatsword dijo:
Been spamming weighted chinups recently on the calisthenics rings I got, and seriously underestimated how much work doing them in the L-sit position does for the core. I don't even think I have to superset hanging leg raises with these. Need to do more movements for the obliques though
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How are you weighing yourself down while doing an L-sit? Doesn't the dip belt get in the way? I like to do slow and controlled leg raises (no kicking) with an L-sit pause while in ring support hold.
Eg.

I've been mostly focusing on my front lever progressions, at the advanced tuck stage.
 
It should be illegal to post calisthenics videos without saying how tall you are. It's always the first question, "how tall are you?". It matters. There are serious competitors going to competitions and their height is not listed anywhere. The difference between a 170cm and 180cm is massive.

I was reminded of this watching this Sthenos competition, seeing Nathan Bosech (160cm) go against Rémi (unknown, but closer to 180cm than 160cm). You can see their height relative to the parallel bars, Nathan's shoulders are clearly below the bar, where Rémi's armpits are entirely above the bar. He's clearly the tallest person at the competition and you can see how much more he struggles with statics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Wsm54ejjw&t=833s

We need calisthenics height classes so it doesn't just devolve into horse jockey-tier tiny people.
 
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CrunkLord420 dijo:
When I started my dead hang to active hang transition was the hardest part, not the top.
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I've the opposite problem. I can hold a 60 sec active hang, 90 on a good day lol but if I drop in to a proper dead hang my shoulder/chest starts screaming at me. I've been trying pulsing in and out of it to see if it improves. Probably a weight issue too
 
CrunkLord420 dijo:
There's a gymnast named Riley Loos who is trying to get a backflip to planche move named after him in male gymnastics. I didn't even know that was possible.
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It looks like an amazing way to horrifically injure yourself, but that's probably everything in gymnastics. Absolute sick cunt for doing it.

I've progressed from regular pullups to knee raise pullups, and just now switched to doing straight leg raises. My volume varies but my PB so far was 7/6/5, followed by 7/6/6 chest dips. I'm also practicing V-tuck sit ups and really trying to work on flexibility and mobility throughout my legs so I can really straighten them properly.

Another goal of mine is the one legged squat. I can make it all the way down, and I could probably do the last half, but the first few inches of movement are brutal getting back up.
 
I've once again fallen into a funk where I've become lazy and all I do for exercise is burpees and a stationary bike.
Give me a good routine to stick with since I'm apparently too lazy to look one up. I've got a pullup bar and some gymnastics rings but they're attached to a fairly low door frame so stuff like muscleups are sadly out of the question.

Bit of a digression but I've been reading Tarzan of the Apes recently and the way Tarzan's agility is described makes me kind of jelly. Like yeah I can do the beginnings of a dragon flag but it's not like I can jump off and twist my body midair and land gracefully and all of that shit.
 
Weighted ring pushups (feet on a chair to keep the body horizontal or in a slight incline) are amazing. My ring dips have stagnated, but these are getting better fast. I feel my pecs more than before too, plus the rings-turned-out end squeeze is starting to come naturally. Since I don't have a pressing bench I was starting to get worried about my chest but motherfucking ring pushups came to the rescue.

Also deficit pushups on three chairs, almost the same thing. Easy to load with a backpack, great stretch, and for noobs bodyweight alone is more than enough. You can push for failure without worries.

For strong people loading up a bunch of weight becomes awkward, but these are really good until you get there.
 
Calistenthics are great, vinyasa yoga will help your mobility and generally supports muscle development through more effective stretching techniques. Try rock climbing too if you've got a gym near you, really helps shake things up and you need to use your head so you get less bored than just doing straight pull-ups/push-ups etc.
 
CrunkLord420 dijo:
There's a gymnast named Riley Loos who is trying to get a backflip to planche move named after him in male gymnastics. I didn't even know that was possible.

Not Riley Loo, because all his videos are TikTok brainrot cringe. It's a sick move.
Backflip into planche🤯😳 [1W__IvTPnVw].mp4
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Riley Loos posted another video about his journey to get this move named after him. The gymnastic people "banned" it? Or simply refusing to award points for it? They call it "too circus", amusing. I sometimes wonder if calisthenics could ever become a college recognized "sport", or even Olympics. Though, the whole concept of calisthenics "competitions" are kinda lame and super subjective, much like "competitive" gymnastics where they're getting deducted for having to much style (eg. Azarian iron cross).


 
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