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Rock climber here, calisthenics is life. Gotta get that strength to wait ratio up and get my finger tendons stronger.
Iāve got a lot of the advanced techs in the bag, still working on some complicated movements on the gymnastic rings.
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ive recently started training almost exclusively calisthenics. due to some injuries i have i cant benchā¦i can only deadlift and do some curls. but i recently devloped an interest in the bar competitions. they seem alot like bboying and tricking which i do both of. so a friend of mine has been helping me with some workouts to develop the strength to do muscle ups since alot of the basics come from there.
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at the moment my workouts are
set 1: 10 push ups
10 squats
10 pull ups
10 dips
set 2 10 typwriter push ups(one where you lean to one side and then push up as normal then drop to the other side. then theirs another variation where i stay low to the ground going side to side the whole time.
10 lunges
10 squats
set 3: 10 pull ups, 10 typewriter pull ups, 10 vup pull ups
i may be mixing the order a lil bit but this is more or less what ive been working on. these are just my calistenthics specific stuff. i bboy about once a week, jiu jitsu a couple times a week, tricks/flips once or twice a week. then some sort of straight up lifting i try to do almost everynight mon-thur.
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its really random what im eating. the only consistent thing about my eating habits are probably my breakfast meals which generally are 3-4 eggs and 4 pieces of bacon. i work 2-6 but then head right to bjj for the most part i snack here and there. occasionally ill eat mcdonalds or sumtin before bjj and then maybe another snack by the time i get out. but by the time i actually go to the gym its about 10pm. my energy is pretty much fineā¦i live off of energy drinks cause i drive alot due to work.
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Iām digging your lifestyle, man. How much are you eating to keep your energy up?
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This core routine looks murderous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbj2EK_4Xq0[/quote
Yo that guy shredded and I like beer way too much to ever be that ripped, but imma say his form was poor in the levers and dragon flags
Something something gotch bible
Calisthenics best method for fitness, and the best method of building endurance for pretty much any sort of combat sports.
It is time for my monthly break from heavy lifting to recharge and let my cns heal up.
People you can get a good 30 minute workout in if you really want to in your own bedroom
( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā° )
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Iām really trying to get better at pull ups, I can max around 10 on the first set then following sets drop off as you might expect.
I donāt follow a scrict schedule, but i try to not leave more than one day between workout, and i try to do sets at varying times of day. i also do other floor stuff plus a bit of cycling and nunchaku practice (great for warming up the arms and grip before chinning).
Iāve also started doing more than one session a day, but not killing myself to failure on each one.
ie, 3 sets in the morning then 3 more mid day then another couple in the evening, 4-5 times a week instead of 10 sets in one go. I seem to have progressed much quicker like this over the last 3 months, but still failing around the 10th rep.
do you have any advice on improving my pull ups? routine/recovery/technique etc, or is it just a case of motivating myself and going ham on the bar each time? thanks in advance 
just practice. ive been doing pull ups since i was a kid just cause i wanted to. just practice every night or every other night and work to go 1 above what you did.
I can only go off anecdotal experience, but around 10-12 range of reps there is basically a natural plateau that occurs. Same thing happened with my friends. When you first start you gradually go up because youāre basically unlocking your ānatural latent potentialā i.e., the type of strength youād normally have if you were always active. Once you reach that point it becomes much more difficult to surpass that range; for example, it took me 6-7 months before I could get past the 12 rep mark consistently even though I was progressing faster with alternate calisthenic exercises like pushups and chin ups.
How did I do it? Strengthening supporting or auxiliary muscles that basically take the effort off the primary muscles doing the work when you perform the pull up. So I did dips with my legs facing forward (L position), and behind-the-back pull ups (which I realized I could barely do initially), and those exercises really hit the often neglected trapezius muscles when doing regular pull ups and slowly but surely my reps increased.
Another thing you have to realize that after a certain point reps =/= strength but endurance. For example, you might be able to do 10 weighted pull ups and still not be able to do 20-25 pull ups unweighted. Meanwhile, a skinnier but fit fellow can churn out 30+ pull ups with perfect form simply because heās not only pulling up less bodyweight, but has better overall muscular endurance. It seems counter-intuitive but everyone responds differently to exercises depending on their genetics.
Back when I was exercising regularly, this was the method I used. Iād play bikini girl vids on the TV while I did push-ups, sit-ups and squats. Shit was awesome.
And youāre so right about the no dicks thing. Watching a dick get worked will overload your willpower and make you end up fappping. Once you fap, your desire to work out will plummet.
Watching hot chicks is motivation to get your shit straight.
Nice strat.
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