If you thought endlessly curling dumbbells was the only way to get jacked arms and build your upper body, think again. Yes, it may be one of the best ways, but it's not the only way. Calisthenics
I was doing tabata at home for years (body weight exercises). Its alright but its hard to train all muscles. I ended up being strong at some things but weak in other muscles. My arms were big but shoulders small, as an example. But thats also because I mostly did pushups.
There can be a mental shortcut to say “instead of bar exercise x I will do y calisthenic progression” because the work or movement is similar. Most calisthenic development (again, just my exp) conditions your joints and muscles to be resistant to leveraging forces, rather than in-line forces, so tissue development is specific to the direction and force of the leverage, more so than a given muscle’s overall work capacity.
It’s great if you need to train for that kind of strength and durability, but if muscle appearance (bigness) and work capacity are what someone is after, I suspect that many people will have faster and more easily maintainable results through other exercise disciplines, and be less prone to plateau and injury in the process.
I was doing tabata at home for years (body weight exercises). Its alright but its hard to train all muscles. I ended up being strong at some things but weak in other muscles. My arms were big but shoulders small, as an example. But thats also because I mostly did pushups.
Just a two cent ramble on this. Dumpthoughts.
There can be a mental shortcut to say “instead of bar exercise x I will do y calisthenic progression” because the work or movement is similar. Most calisthenic development (again, just my exp) conditions your joints and muscles to be resistant to leveraging forces, rather than in-line forces, so tissue development is specific to the direction and force of the leverage, more so than a given muscle’s overall work capacity.
It’s great if you need to train for that kind of strength and durability, but if muscle appearance (bigness) and work capacity are what someone is after, I suspect that many people will have faster and more easily maintainable results through other exercise disciplines, and be less prone to plateau and injury in the process.
I’ll have to look into that. I do weights, but I was looking for something for a nice morning workout.
I have some excellent advice then. :) I was doing this exercise for many years at home, every second day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkS1-El_WlE&t=37
I couldnt even do the full thing the first few weeks. But it made me very strong.
Try it and let me know your thoughts and if you made it through it!
Definitely gonna try this! Thank you!!