Make a conscious effort to keep your elbows tight and close to your body. Eventually it'll become second-nature to you.

The push up that u simulate the dip position, arms parallel and close to your body also I must keep concious mind to keep my arms together..

Yeah I thought it's my grip or elbow positioning problem, looks like all I have to do is to look after my form..

Anyone here trains with rings? I saw those video on youtube looks so bad ass..

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I'm thinking of installing one for the house. Then again, I think it's better for me to master every form first before taking on the ring. The extra imbalance might screw up my form because I don't have enough strength to keep myself from wobbling.

I would be so cool if you can get a chin up bar, gym ring, and a parallel bar in your backyard.. I am actually thinking to to make them in my garden.. but I dont think my parents would be happy about that..

My parents wouldn't be happy about having those in the backyard either.

My local park doesn't have any fitness things there, only playgrounds for kids. Now that I think about it they should. There are only playgrounds for kids. Also they're full of young kids and teens, I'm not comfortable with that kind of audience. They only have monkey bars and they're a bit too low as well. Those fitness parks are too far away to even consider jogging.

Though there is a rock climbing wall at the local Belia dan Sukan complex not far from my place. One day I'm gonna show off my strength by pulling myself up using one arm. I hope my development is fast enough that the wall will still be there when I'm ready to have a go. I don't see anyone using it eventhough I pass by it every week.

Oh hey, do you mind telling me when you started this workout? You lost 4kg right?

I think like 3 ~ 4 weeks ago.. But I am actually training strength to train up my endurance capacity. I am actually doing triathlon and endurance running / swimming more.. Just that in my training strength seems to lack of...

It was like 1kg/week lost previously, now stagnant as I start to eat a lot for my races again hahaha.. My weight been maintaining around there now.

I am fortunate, the playground near my house, like 200~300m away. Has a parallel bar (but a bit too wide for my liking), a stroll bar (very good for me to train on before I can do a proper form chin up).

There used to be chin up bar too, but they demolished it =(, I use the monkey bar instead, it's around 2m height which is just nice for me.

I wish I can gain 1kg a week easily. In order for me to do that I eat 3 HUGE meals a day plus snacks in between. I can almost throw up after each meal. Losing weight is so much more fun since you still have the feeling of real hunger. The first time in months since I felt real hunger was on the first day of the fasting month. I still workout in the fasting month, an hour before breaking fast.

Try to split them to more multiple meals (probably 4-6) instead of 3 HUGE meals. That is usually the easy fix for your kind of problem.

I'll try, but that would mean I have to prepare a meal 4-6 times a day. I don't have that much time to spend preparing and eating, so 3 big ones and snacks in between means I can eat the snacks and work at the same time. I'll try this on the weekends. I probably have the discipline now to force myself to eat.

Prepare your meals for the day either the night before or wake up a little earlier to do it.

Why the hell didn't I think of that?!
Thanks.

anyone still with Calisthenic training? need some good regime and tips yo ... currently doing dips and chin up and end with pushup ... are those good?

google "convict conditioning" its a good start..albeit some controversies around it
or can just google calisthenics

I still cannot do 1 pull-up or chin-up

You could train with an easier variation of the pull ups first.

I'd suggest training with horizontal pulls (using strict form) to get the hang of it.



If you can do 30 reps for 3 sets, you can try attempting the normal pull ups again.

yea, convict con is a good guide on what to do. i mixes up the routines depending on whether i have time.

only have time to get down and dirty during the weekends, so usually, i go all out, pushups, chinups, abdomen. can't do squats due to persistent knee injury.

The World Street Workout Championship 2013 in Denmark will be the first ever to be televised. Although only a 30 minute highlight clip from Eurosport 2. 9.30pm CET or 3.30 am Malaysia time

Streaming for Eurosport 2:
http://www.giniko.com/watch.php?id=70
http://www.livestream365.com/sr/eurosport-2

I've recently been inspired by alot of Callisthenics workouts simply because the premise is simple - body mastery. It's like the story I remember once about this guy who was playing in a snooker championship. While everyone was bringing 1-2 of their custom super grand cues, this one guy pulled a stock one out of the centre and whooped everyone's ass, lol.

For some inspiration, you can head to this page ( http://ashotofadrenaline.net/49-best-calisthenic-masters/ ) as as a starting point for names to search and do the rest on You Tube.

I've recently made this my ultimate fitness goal! But right now strength/weight ratio is still not adequate so gotta lose weight first, lol (I'm a big boned 95kgs mofo btw lol)

yeah quite difficult with heavy body as a start

Thanks for the link. It's a nice read and I recognize some of the names on the list. NO. 37 on the list is Bar-Risan, a Malaysian group!