Calisthenics and Bodyweight Fitness

Push up, pull up, leg raise , and squat progressions daily at about 40% effort. Two hours between each set as per grease the groove. Ideal because I can run the routine in between breaks at work. Did the math on the reps and they equated to what I would be doing if I was on a 3 day split.

Overtraining is actually a prolonged state of “under-recovery” where your body does not have the ability to properly repair itself. It takes weeks or even months to recover from this state; your capabilities are heavily depressed, often even below starting level. This state can only be reached through chronic overworking, so you will hopefully never reach it—the only way to get to this state is by not getting enough rest for several consecutive months. Deload properly and you will have nothing to be concerned about.

I mean that might seem a lot but I've made time for both running (early morning.. 5-7ish am) and training calisthenics (~9-10.30am) for a few days. Doesn't feel like it's unhealthy or overtraining for me. I'm curious how is it going for you if you've also incorporated running with cali. How much is it helping and why should/shouldn't i continue with running too.

Ps I'm not an inexperienced runner but an elite. I had just stopped running for 3 months while i was also doing body weight training but on different days. I only did BTW for last 3 months. Now planning to do both together at the same days.

I like the idea of body weight routines, but when I've tried them in the past it's usually meant that I tried to convert my apartment into a gym. I try to turn a corner, the sink lip, the floor, the walls and more recently a pull up bar into a sort of "gym" and it's never worked out for me.

I started paying for a gym a while back and have been going almost every day that I can and I've found it a lot easier to help me get into routine to the point that I think trying to start out with bodyweight was a mistake.

As a (perpetual) beginner I've always struggled finding the right intensity and variation of workout. I find the gym equipment lowers that difficulty. I can spend 20 minutes on a bike (no hills, no traffic, no stop signs, no people, no weather) and then stretch using a roller and a pad, then hop onto a machine having never used it before, glance at the instructions, pick a weight and go.

I've just noticed this over the last few weeks and I guess what I'm wondering is if you think calisthenics is appropriate for beginners or is something more suited to people who have 'graduated' from the gym.

What is a good way to ensure joints' flexibility and health in calisthenics?

I had came across a blog dedicated to the stretching, flexibility and joint health a few years ago. But it got lost. Now i really wanna accumulate that knowledge and till then atleast use some other methods u guys may suggest?
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what is the limit of equipments that can be used in calisthenics and which single equipment will be most useful?
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Alt Title: The best way for push progression as an absolute calisthenics beginner.

When your starting out with calisthenics with no calisthenics or any training experience at all, you said start a straight with your push up progressions as they are going to struck with you for the rest of your life in your calisthenics journey and are by far the most important and crucial workout.

Focusing on the form from just the beginning will help you better utilise and understand the form, the benefits, the importance of form in every kind of workout and how it can severely affect the results.

Now what a good push up in calisthenics looks like is a push up that takes only your strength and no movemental help. So need not to speed it up as ur starting cus this way you'll be able to focus on solely the strength to go up and down. Ur chest almost touching the ground.

Don't be assamed if you can only do 5 or even one push up in the start. That is ok. You'll progress. Doing 10 push-ups slowly with right form will have more benefits than doing 100s of em with a tremendous form.

When you're progressing with body weight training and now are able to do 20 pushups with a program like this ↑, then in calisthenics you go for the variations and make ur pushups harder.

Calisthenics is all about adapting progressing and making 100 variations from what are 3 workouts for a normie or gym guys. That's why we are more flexible and are able to use and utilise your body fully. 😉

I used to do a mix of ordinary pushups and calisthenics, and the hardest parts were to do really slow pushups. Now ive been getting a bit lazy again and not working out as i should.

Whats a good starting program to get strong again?