What are the best calisthenics exercises and which ones are completely useless?
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What are the best calisthenics exercises and which ones are completely useless?
What are the best calisthenics exercises and which ones are completely useless?
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bad ROM
you might have missed this, but her breasts seem to get in the way of performing the full range of motion
No excuses. Own it.
Great:
>pullups
>hanging Leg raises
Okay:
>hand stand push-ups
>pistol squats
Don't bother:
>squats
>push-ups
And don't even mention planche or front lever because those are way too advanced for 99% of people.
Calisthenics is about progression and activating every muscle group. There is no "bad" just not progressing or using bad form.
This guy is wrong. You should hit pushups until mastery then do diamond pushups then start with easier planches and advance into lever pushups. Also squats even at bodyweight are useful for activating and strengthening your core and erector spinae that you need for correct pullups.
>pushups until mastery
>squats even at bodyweight are useful
jfc you sound like the weakest person on earth
Most people in public even the young cant stay in ass to grass heels on ground upward posture squat. Bench pressing big weight doesn't mean much when your own posterior chain is not strong.
Yes people who don't work out at all are even weaker than people who do calisthenics. calisthenics only serves to ease the sedentary into weight lifting.
they're all useless except the pull up/chin-up and even that the goal should be to do them weighted.
nah, dips are also very good, especially weighted dips
squats and lunges + variations thereof are also great exercises, especially for when you don't have access to equipment
no they won't give you strength gains like heavy barbell work, but they still have their place
Wouldn't it be hilarious if she was doing pushups on top of you and her breasts landed in your face and then when her arms get tired she'd just lie on top of you and rest on your body and hug you as a prank oh noooo im stuck i cant get escape her haha
What if she just falls a sleep on top of you haha
It would be even more hilarious as she cuddles you in her sleep with sweat coated, warm breasts in your face. Haha... Haha...
oh nooooo hahaha
Most of the easy ab moves are useless. Planks, leg raises (all hips), crunches... The function of your abs and obliques is moving and stabilizing the spine so all that straight torso shit works it harder. Hollow Body chin ups will mog any of the lifts I listed and once you get to holding planches it's not even close.
For strength builders, the only ones that are useless are the explosive, multistep movements like muscle ups. The second tier of uselessness is one arm shit. You just rotate to accommodate the imbalance and it ruins the lift. These are the darlings of 130lb "men" for a reason. Super easy for skinny Black folk to do but doesn't build anything. Your body is symmetrical for a reason.
Here's the ones worth doing
>pushup -> ring push up -> dips -> bulgarian dips
>wall assisted push up -> pike pushups -> handstands -> handstand pushups
>chin-up -> high chin-up (pull ups don't work the lats "harder" they're just a progression towards muscle ups)
>inverted row -> one leg support inverted row ->tuck planche inverted row -> full planche inverted row
Then the leg shit all sucks, I'll fully admit it. the semi-decent ones take a ton of space too. The best is probably weighted sled drags (no sprinting, walk for friction resistance) but you can't just go outside and do those half the time unless you got a big property. Hip bridges and shit are completely useless for anyone who isn't obese or a geriatric. Tumbling is what I would do since the bounces are good for calves and a bit of quad and they're more range of motion than just spamming pistol squats.
I've popped a hamstring doing nordic curls before. I feel like anything that involves locking your legs artificially defeats the point of calisthenics. Open chain exercises are much, much safer. Closed chain is the reason everyone you talk to has a story about tendonitis from curls.
I'm not saying weights are bad before someone has a heart attack. It's just this an option for people who hate gyms.
I ran out of space but this is what I'm talking about with why I hate closed chain calisthenics. This is not natural at all and your tendons get raped because of it. I hate crunches as well.
If you want to do closed chain, get $10 go to planet fitness and use the machines. Those are built for closed chain movement. Do not try to basterdize athletic movements into becoming closed chain. It will save your longevity when training because I know 18-year-old thinks he's invincible but one injury will frick you up for years.
The only calisthenics id do if i always hqd access to weights would be pushing off the wall incline pushups, stretching, and hitting the heavy bag if that counts. Calisthenics is ass, every single calisthenics bro would be able to defeat themselves with their current program and therefore build as my freeweight disciple.
pushups til sets of 30 reps, then diamond pushups til 30, then dips til 30
then weighted dips til sets of 30 and upscale weight from there
pullups til 30, then weighted
chinups til 30, then weighted
same progression principle for abs (except the weighted part):
W raises
Black Widows
Crunches
butterfly situps
seated corkscrew
situp elbow thrusts
legs:
pistol squats, lunges, HIIT sprints
I'd like push-ups more if they had a better correlation to physical strength. Hand stand pushups at the least scale to your lower vs upper back muscle ratio.
pushups are a good stepping stone for more advanced movements
Is it possible to get an aesthetic looking body using just calisthenics? Like not big big but just something one could consider well proportionate.
I started from pretty much less than zero being a disgusting skinnyfat moron and I have literally no means to access a gym right now. I want to in the future and I know I would get better progress there but for now it is completely out of reach for me.
All I have is a pull up bar, a 10kg kettlebell and a 10kg dumbbell. What can I do with that?
I was following the hybrid calisthenics plan for the past few months but I feel like the gains have been kinda low. I am in a better shape than I was but I still look like shit.
you need nothing, just your body, a good diet, consistency and plenty of sleep
hit the top, core and legs
pushups are a good starter for the top
crunches or leg raises for abs
squats for legs
preworkout of creatine monohydrate
One meal a day, just after workout (use complex carbs, don't be a ketotard)
If you eat twice a day, do this twice, preworkout 30 min before, workout, eat your meal immediately afterwards
workout until you can't complete a set with perfect form
caffeine + creatine is even better
>creatine
Eat a bunch of steak and ground beef so you arent missing nutrients in your diet and live life on power saving mode.
I did 5 sets of nickels and dimes at home today, 5 pullups 10 pushups with 1 min rest minus the time you spend doing the exercises.
mating press meiko
Just pushups
>spend years doing barbell rows
>switch to only pullups instead
>back explodes
Barcucks cope about 'thenics but it does work though
Pullups, dips and pushups. Everything else is fricking gay.