I am extremely poor and cannot afford equipment or gym membership.
Very close to my home there is one of these simple calisthenics park.
Can I still make it if I just go there everyday?
I remember reading in this board that you can solve upper body just fine with these bars.
What do I do for lower body though?
Is there any hope for me?
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Push-ups, Pull-ups, bodyweight squats
Also dips and if there is a ladder you could do human flags and decline sit-ups, monkey bars for front levers and L-sits
>Can I still make it
Yes. Remember to progress through harder variations and slower reps as you get stronger to keep the rep range low.
>if I just go there everyday?
You don't have to go there every day.
If you can't afford $10/month to go to planet fitness you should work on making money instead of worrying about anything else...being too poor to go to the gym is a bullshit excuse
Maybe he's a third worlder
What kind of answer is this? OP asked if he can train calisthenics for free, and you're just talking about something completely different
Not op but I live in a shithole with low wages and gym costs ~50$ a month here.
Do am*ritards really believe muttm*rica is the only country that exists on the planet
2 or 3x a week
dips amrap for as many sets as you can tolerate
chins amrap for as many sets as you can tolerate
interval sprints until exhaustion
You can throw in L-sits if you want but those aren't essential.
Write down what you do and try to beat it (total reps, total sprints or sprint distance)
Or he could do both, dipshit. They also charge $100 yearly so it's not $10 a month. You'd know this if you ever bought a gym membership in your life, or maybe your mommy does for you.
Sure, working out outside should be fine. When it gets cold, put on gloves but after a warmup you'll be warm enough. If it snows it may be too cold but then you could do some pushups inside I suppose.
Another downside is other people, the park may be full and you won't be able to complete your workout on time. This counts for regular gyms as well by the way, so find the peak hours and avoid those.
You can't get super buff from just calisthenics. You would need to lift weights much heavier than yourself to truly become a sick natty beast like me but if you're just starting out, this is fine. Doing calisthenics for a year will teach you how to work out, how to push yourself and how to see some results.
The big problem if you're really poor is diet. You need protein, lots of protein and that's usually expensive. The most complete food is obviously meat or fish but that is very expensive in most countries. Beans, eggs, quark/greek yoghurt and nuts are all good, cheap bulk protein foods you can eat lots of
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Don't work out in the cold I got two injuries that have been with me for a decade now from the cold. It is so easy to get injured working out in cold.
You can make good progress on bodyweight squats and reverse lunges for the first year.
Pistol squats, sprints, jumping, legs are not the issue, the issue is lower back.
Also, swim, climb trees, try to find big rocks and lift them. If your too poor to buy meat try trapping fish.
Bridging should cover back strength, look up convicted condition on YouTube, he has a bunch of old DVD segments for bridges, once you get really good at bridging, and you can do handstands, it'll open you up to tiger bends which require insane strength.
Don’t need a gym. Plenty of body exercises available for improving fitness and strength.
Focus on getting lean and strong. Find a free calisthenic program that hits full body 2-3 times per week, maybe just work on hangs and stuff on rest days. Build the commitment in your mind breh and get to a gym when that becomes available, ygmi
you can fit a kettlebell in your room, consider investing in one or a few of those
>I am extremely poor and cannot afford equipment or gym membership.
For 10-20$ you can have all you need in training equipment for the rest of your life.
Look up prison yard exercises.
Buy a sturdy bag,
Fill it with sand
I used to go to a callisthenics park in london for about a year until I got stabbed by a guy for using "his spot"
it was good until then. after that I decided I had to pay for a gym. if I could do it again I would just get some equipment for my home.
The absolute state of England
bruh
Yes you can make it doing callisthenics. The catch is that you have to work a bit smarter. Always looking to get to the next progression of an exercise eg pull-ups to one handed pull-ups. Legs are tricky, you can do pistol squats, jumping squats and their variations. Maybe see if you can do uphill sprinting or uphill cycling.
>Can I still make it if I just go there everyday?
training every day is not the optimal. The answer is that yes you can make it by training in a calisthenics park.
Yes you can. Can even make bonus gains with weighted calisthenics.
Buy a dip belt and make your own weights. As buying plates is a fricking rip off.
Legs are also a meme. Some squat variants are all you need.
yes
picrel is going to solve half your problems, buy it
the other half is going to be tricky
you could ditch the rings and get one 24kg kettlebell instead
then you will be able to do several lower body movements to failure at home
no need for a an expensive powerfat setup
if you can afford it, at least invest in a set of bands to use at the park. they’ll allow you to modify every bodyweight exercises to add/decrease resistance. Pull-ups or dips with a band can really help you get reps in and grow.
>I remember reading in this board that you can solve upper body just fine with these bars.
Get a pair of rings
pushups + rows if weak
pullup + dips if strong
once pullups + dips becomes easy get a dipping belt
remember to warm up your wrists, if you feel any kind of pain durin a lift just stop doing it, many have sternum pain from ring dips so make sure you can do them well on parallel bars first
if the park is nearby then you have no excuses to skip the workout, you can literally go every day and do 10x10 of both lifts
if you want you can throw in some leg raises/toes to bar, just remember to skip leg day
you are going to make it, I find calisthenics training in the park to be so relaxing when there's nobody around and you hear birds and wind and it's green around it's co calm
28 or 32mm rings?
you can try both since wooden rings are very cheap, 28 is standard size
also get rings with straps that have length scale so you can allign them easier.
It goes without saying but make absolutely sure you read the guide on how to properly install them because each model might have a different way.
You can take a longer and thinner strap or a smaller one with more width, don't think it matters, just avoid having it floaing around on the ground while you do your lift, like you could rotate the remaining strap on the bar and shit like that
32mm
28mm is for women with tiny hands
men should go for 32mm because it trains your grip better
of course this is only when using rings for bodyweight exercises as your average guy
situation should be different for olympics professionals
>I find calisthenics training in the park to be so relaxing when there's nobody around and you hear birds and wind and it's green around it's co calm
This is how I feel too. I lifted in gyms for 6 years and I started getting huge headaches dealing with the shit music, bad gym manners like dyels taking a nap on the high traffic equipment, endless dropsetters hogging one piece of equipment for 30 minutes and the traffic. Now I just lift in a park and pretend the cold weather is making me tougher.
The only problem is that boomers kept spying on me to try and call the cops on me for something but I asserted my dominance and now it's no problem.
Get 28mm. I got 32mm because leddit told me they're better but they're bad for gripping and false grip is trash on it. Getting a spare pair isn't expensive though, my 28mm cost $13 and I just hang both sets at once, one for dips one for chins.
The only benefit people claim is that dips feel better on the palms. I disagree it limits your wrist flexibility on the dip.
yeah you can get a solid back just from spamming pull ups tbh
>I am extremely poor and cannot afford equipment or gym membership.
stoped reading there...
buy second hand , its cheap af and I don't even lift...
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Yes but disregard what people say about so many reps and sets and instead do everything by time. e.g. I do 3 minutes of push ups (doesn't matter how fast or slow, just try to do with perfect form for every rep, and make them as challenging as can be) followed by 1 minutes of rest repeat 5 times is one of my shorter calisthenics workouts I do with my Garmin... but seriously go find a wall and do hours and hours of push ups against the wall, easy push ups, they will make you very strong though. Then you can do it against a stair case, against a block or something, then flat on the ground, etc.
Do the really easy stuff first but for hours every day.
Yeah, I've been doing calisthenics since the pandemic and decided to stop paying for gyms. Have made good progress and paid 20 bucks for some rings years ago.
More recently during my rainy season I bought dumbbells to workout inside and to hit legs too. They were around 50.
Slowly you can buy what you need and actually make a decent amount of progress. Just do it.
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dips, pushups, pullups, hanging leg raises, dead hangs, planks, body weight squats, single leg squats (use heel lift)