So you're now looking down on other form of sports and fitness workouts now?
Different people have different goals in fitness.
People who less prefer working out in a gym does not make them a lesser of an individual.

This post has been edited by Killerjeff88: Oct 20 2015, 10:31 AM

You must be a body builder doing weight lifting. It is alright that you take time to visit this thread and share your opinions. Please encourage your many other friends in BB threads to come in and share their opinion too. Sharing is caring. I like to learn from them too.


I don't need to spend any money to join a gym. I can do pull up/dips at most park. I extend my time under tension. Diet wise I choose a healthier diet of less meat and more vegetables.

Right now I am focusing on calisthenics as I find it useful to build skills and functional strength, flexibility, mobility and endurance to perform better in running and climbing events.

I am progressing to improve my pull ups first before attempting muscle up. My weakness is the pain in my fingers due to excessive bare hand gripping. I will be getting gloves.

i started few weeks back training for the L-Sit.
I think i got it at 80% now ... trying to prolong holding and fully straighten legs.
I'm targeting for planche and handstand next once i get this right.

I have followed your suggestion and extend my time under tension and increase the quantity of my workout. That had made my weight lost another 0.5 kg even though I have increase my food intake.

too much of negativity in your life bro....dont say bad about others when you cant do it bro.. just go and do 2 reps of muscle up, then only we start talk ok?

#respectpls

Told OP ditch bodyweight calisthenics and do weighted calisthenics..... = disrespectful.

That logic duh

Dude you seriously have issues. Calisthenics had always been bodyweight oriented workout. And you're calling it crap so yes you were being disrespectful. Grow a brain?

If one person thinks you are disrespectful, maybe not. But from the way you're getting slammed, ridiculed and criticized about your online behavior not just here but other threads, there is a strong element of truth in these gentlemen's posts.

You've adopted an elitist attitude. Comic books say that with great power comes great responsibility.

With great strength should come great humility.

Maybe you don't have humility because there is nothing to say about your strength and your physique?

Just sayin'.

With great physique comes great humility.... if it's true, then I might be able to be humble one day hahaha.

Yea my physique is pretty 'so-so' only. And I look like a skinny drug addict in shirt so don't doubt your judgement.

Weighted calisthenics can be done with +0kg. Start with bw. Common sense.

This post has been edited by Armesh: Oct 21 2015, 10:16 AM

Personally i dont think it's wrong to do weighted pull ups or dips, you don't have to go all nazi about it. If you think that weighted pull ups are better you could at least explain why it's so. I'm all open to discussions.

This post has been edited by dharmabums: Oct 21 2015, 11:20 AM

Progressive overload is the basic of all muscle growth. You need add weight/make a exercise harder to continue to grow. The rep range must be kept below ~15 reps/set for optimum muscle growth (around 8~12 is sweet spot).

This is why you cannot keep doing more and more push-ups to get a bigger and bigger chest. This is why you cannot keep curling your waterbottle 1000x and get big biceps.
This is why people do barbell squats instead of doing 9999 reps of body-weigh squats. This why people bench press instead of doing 9999 pushups.
This is why weighs and gyms exist.

This post has been edited by Armesh: Oct 21 2015, 12:08 PM

Is that all you have? For a moment there i thought you had something more profound to add on. Frankly, it seems you don't really know much about calisthenics apart from the basics of the basics. Still it's not surprising, there isn't much information about calisthenics around to properly educate people.

Not every sport is focused on building mass. Getting "in shape" doesn't mean building slabs of muscle to some trainees. Respect that.
Do you realize how disliked you are around here? I've been lurking and observing people's reaction and attitude towards you and your posts.

It's sad to see. The fact that you "may" have posted useful info in the past has been overshadowed by your mounting arrogance and elitist attitude which is alienating people towards you.

You came in with this:-

You're just rude. Period.

funny thread.
the TS asked "How is it in terms of effectiveness in getting in shape?"
not "How effective is it to become the hulk"

so lets get back on topic here

Then why are you still puny? I've seen people made better gains in half a year than you.

If you're new to pull ups, hurting fingers are normal. Your fingers aren't used to the holding up your bodyweight. Keep doing dead hangs aiming for a minute. once you're okay, keep dead hangs in your workouts routine, don't throw them out.

since you're aiming for a muscle up as a goal, do practice your pull ups with a false grip

This post has been edited by dharmabums: Oct 21 2015, 03:35 PM

LMAO! Ouch...

And srsly fuck you skinny to buff guy within 90 days. OP here just want advices and all you did was just troll ppl.

I..... I..... *snickers*........

brb......

Muahahhahahaha.......

Don't be so ...... *snickers*.... mean la....



This post has been edited by darklight79: Oct 23 2015, 02:14 AM