Is there even a point in trying calisthenics if i'm 195cm (6.4ft) and 90kg (198pounds)? I'm afraid i will never make it out of novice stage or achieve advanced stuff and make no gains...
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Same place, just start
I have finally got a pull up at 20 I have been wanting this for 4y since hs
congrats anon, it's well worth the wait. me I've been trying years just to get an advanced tuck planche but I can't keep my legs up
Try it and find out.
Holy frick you don't need our permission
You will never win any prizes at 195cm but will it be good for your general health and fitness and well being? Most definitely.
Let me ask you this, would you tell a 170cm manlet to not play basketball?
>Let me ask you this, would you tell a 170cm manlet to not play basketball?
Yes.
Apologize.
>Let me ask you this, would you tell a 170cm manlet to not play basketball?
Anon, I...
One important thing; learn how leverage works
There'll be a ton of manlets telling you your numbers should be higher/you should be progressing faster (then you meet them irl and they come up to your navel), progression as a lanklet is slower and you have to pay massive attention to form
>you have to pay massive attention to form
Why?
Because the easiest most seemingly natural way to do a movment is often not the safest or best for building muscle. There's not much natural about exercise except climbing and walking. Controlling what's worked and how it's worked. Same deal with lifting appealing to nature or feel has no place in this shit except with maybe pullups.
>Because the easiest most seemingly natural way to do a movment is often not the safest or best for building muscle.
Can you provide some examples in calisthenics?
Most people do pushups wrong, they use pooe range of motion and put their arms straight out, droop their back ect.
Ideal form is:
Arms at 45 degrees from body, hands facing slightly in, thumbs about nipple level. Back straight core engaged. Chest to floor. Shoulders held in line with body for most of the rep and protracted at the top.
But you'll never see anyone do those "naturally" because it's not natural it's a disciplined form.
Makes sense.
What a fricking moronic question. You could have used all that stupid overthinking to reach to the conclusion of "more bones and more muscles" but your Black person brain is stronger.
>the conclusion of "more bones and more muscles"
What?
tall people have more bones than short people, obviously
everyone knows this, anon
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b***h I'm 205 lbs and I do five sets of ten chin ups twice per week
>hurrrrr I'll always be le novice I better just not do it then
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> I'm afraid i will never make it out of novice stage or achieve advanced stuff and make no gains...
It takes longer to progress to advanced movements, which can be discouraging, but the flip side is that you get nicer gains early on with the basic movements, compared to untrained manlets who can pump out 100 pullups because they weigh as much as a feather. When it comes to calisthenics, it's much harder to compare yourself to others, anyway. A guy who's the same height and weight as you might be churning out 10x the number of pushups, but the difference between fast, bouncy pushups and slow, controlled pushups with a pause is immense.
The "advanced" shit doesn't even build muscle. Those levers and flippy shit they do are not better than dips and chins. There is no height ceiling on dips and chins. It's actually a major problem with the calisthenics community with them majoring on the minors and telling people to stop doing the good lifts and start doing "russian dips" which are worse in every way.
Accepting you're not going to do an iron cross is like accepting you're not going to squat 1000lbs. You're not missing out on anything.
>"russian dips"
what are russian dips? is that when you dip into your vodka stash before noon?
heyooooooooo
Thank for motivation.
198 isn't heavy OP. Especially for 6'4".
You wanna be an advanced calisthenics athlete, or do you want to use it to build muscle? If it's the latter, you're probably at an overall advantage. You'll literally be able to build more actual muscle tissue before you need to move to harder variants of movements
Im 6'4" and was always heavy. Not "big" just a little too fat. As a consequence, I was not strong for my size and couldnt not do pushups and pullups.
It was not until I got myself legit strong (like 2,3,4 and pushing 5 plates on deadlifts) that I dot strong enought o 1) look like I lift and two do chinups. Pushups came earlier, but pullups were a b***h.
Anyway, dont bother. If I assume your goals are to look better and to perform better, a much faster way to achieve your goals or to get very strong on the basic barbell lifts. To get strong, you can then try to do calisthenics to show off. Goal is to primarily look better and perform better, use barbells. it will just be faster.
Most guys go to the gym to look big, not to lift big.
You can get big with calisthenics, as long as it's WEIGHTED calisthenics.
You only need to do dips, pullups and legs raises (and their variations) in the hypertrophy rep range (5-15 reps) since these 3 exercises hit all of your upper body muscles.
You DO NOT need to do fancy moves (maltese, iron cross) to get big, as these exercises mostly focus on strength and do nothing for hypertorphy (you don't be repping 15 iron crosses in a row).
89kg and 6' here, Ive been doing calisthenics for maybe 3-4 months and can do 10 dips and about 5 pullups from being at 0 on both. Just keep at it, it may be demoralising but negatives and assisted helps,even if dyels tell you its cringe.
No OP, you will just waste time like I did at the exact same specs trying to run and rock climb and stuff. Just do strongman, it's where we belong.