Please finish the series😢

What does makes it paradox is because everyody has arbitrary sense in categorising exercise like freeweight vs bodyweight or push vs pull but scientifically there is no such categories, every educated person knows muscles can only pull. Human dumbass brain likes simplification, sometime very rigid and fixated to the pattern, if the exercise is close kinetic chain it falls under bodyweight exercise and the otherwise, which isnt always the case and there's always exception like deadlift, or clean and jerk. It is not hard rule guys

I think calisthenics is closed kinetic chain exercices and what is not calisthenics like weightlifting is open kinetic chain exercices

The level of detail in this analysis is unreal and possibly insane, but great info.

So youre saying that my giant ass is holding back my full front lever 50% bw pullup at 80kg 5'7, I can barely straddle because of that cake

Blud really did drop the best content and dipped... sad

I think its hard for people who have long legs.

I can tell you why you're analysis is wrong. Its because you use free weights in weighted calisthenics. Not a machine for a easy motion like other weightlifting gym excercises. You use multiple muscles to perform an excercise. About the deadlift you said - its should be considered weighted calisthenics because its a free motion which again uses multiple muscles. But you have these weird machine movements which isolates single muscles. I know you called it as weight training and not free weights or machine. But the people who just weight train but don't do calisthenics- train using machine that helps you isolate your muscle with fixed motion. That's why weighted calisthenics atheletes have a higher "relative" strength compared to people who just train with weights.

where did bro go

Bro forgot his password

I just started watching Mike videos a lot, love his info on bodybuilding but now that I’m doing calisthenics I was looking for this exact type of video to see what he info he could bring to help me out. Definitely need him back on here for more info!

bro i hope youre coming back, i managed to graduate from university before your next upload

You can do some basic trigonometry and find that the proportional growth of limbs don't work here. The triangle keeps changing angles according to your body shape and on top of that if you arms are shorter compared to your body you can do it with a more stiff angle which elminates the force in the horizontal axis. But if you have longer arms compared to your body than it's going to be a lot harder. I really wish some biomechanist would focus on this research

How am I just NOW finding this video. I’ve spent the last year learning as many press variations as possible and this video explains perfectly everything I had to painstakingly discover for myself. This would have expedited my progress so much if I found it even just a year ago

This is one of the most beautiful videos I saw, it's raw, it's simple, it's detailed, it's down to basics. Awesome work

Mate shorten the damn questions - you took nearly 5 minutes to ask one question when you have a guest on your show. Just shut up and let him talk.

i never thought it was anything else than pullups with weights lol just another exercise

bro comeback bro, your videos quality is insane, one of my fav fitness content creator

I did basic pull ups and dips and I got to 18 pull ups chin over the bar when I tried front lever I held one leg for 3-4 seconds at the time my weighted pull up was 30% when I increased it up to 50% I could do straddle half lay for 4 seconds

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7:00 I can do one arm backbend press and hold, I call it one arm bridge flag press

Just achieved my first one arm pull ups on left and right hands. Being doing weighted pull ups and I am still adding almost 2.5kg every week for my working weight. atm at +27.5 x 9 reps. Also being doing armwrestling which trains forearm, hand and grip strength which helps a lot.

Love it, what about one arm handstand next?

Basic barbell work for many years, the lower body proportion of mass increases… in short, big butts are seldom seen achieving front levers.

I’d like if he incorporated Bruse Lee’s dragon flag exercises. Until then no like

In Calisthenics you move your whole body through space. So forearm flexion is not a calisthenics exercise

to do a video like this and not include the most important factor, which is arm length(ape index), is just insane.

Bro why's your last video before two years? Is everything ok?

i train legs mostly for overall sprint speed (for escapes, and chasing) and overall jump height (which aids in climbing up something, which is what a muscle up is suppose to train). and if they get bigger, then that makes me hotter, and i don't really care because I'd like to spend more time building mass on my upper, progressing too quick turns it stale.

7:38 well,now you may.

No way front lever is harder than planche.

This is genius. Please make videos like this for every advanced calisthenics technique

I will do it someday and in 2030s some kid will find this comment and will be eager to know , did i do it. So yeah i did, checkout the video somewhere in my account.💪

Beware of crunches.They are a waste of time.To build your abs do any combo of chin ups, deadlifts , dragon flags and toes to bar, at least 2 of any of them.Ideally, include chin ups.Illogical as it may seem, they do wonders for the abs.

what if i train legs for strenght and not hyprtrophy

fellow nerd fellow calisthenics athlete noice

zef zakavelli the original.

I feel like I’m never gonna get the press to handstand. It’s so frustrating. I can do handstand hold and tuck eccentrics but..the P2H just isn’t clicking. I’ve watched so many videos about it. But I will try your Wall Handstand Leans and see if that helps me.

I absolutely love using rings to train powerlifting. I feel like the instability there becomes an advantage because it directly engages the stabilizers necessary to build a very heavy bench press. I worked my way up from inclined BW ring pushups to declined ring pushups with a weighted vest and in the process, my bench press numbers soared.

It's like porn you don't need a definition, when you see it you know what it is 😆

Loved this! So much of the info that I want/needed all in one place. You gained a sub!

late to this but always right - you don't need hypertrophy. You - don't - need - it. Muscles come one way or another. Stay on top of your workout and as you age watch out for injuries and eating and drinking. Nothing more. Mike is always repeating push to the limit hypertrophy bla bla. I don't want to be bigger. Can't buy new clothes all the time. Don't want to look like a retarded dwarf . That is not normal. Normal is good, not overbulked , not overshredded.

In France we call it Street Lifting, mix of Street Workout and Lifting, problem solved

Bro 1 hr vdo of pull up? U wild probably

For some reason I am way stronger at the front lever progressions if I dont do them on the bar but on my hangbord which I use for fingerstrenght training. I dont know whats behind it but I manage to recruit my muscles way better. Minimum 30% stronger in hold duration that way.

Thanks for sharing, great content,

Isn't calisthenics just closed movements? Basically ur moving ur body through space instead of moving a weight through space

Calisthenics is a kind of training that requires and develops strength (sthenos) and that begets beauty (kalos), either in the body of the practitioner due to muscle growth, or because the movement or position is itself beautiful, like a planche press to handstand. Furthermore, the movements and forms done must have this effect even if external weight is not added. Curling the air and walking are not calisthenics because they do not build beautiful strength; they only restore health in injured individuals. Although the individuals become stronger and more beautiful this way, and have thus come closer to being strong and beautiful, no one would say that the ability to curl the air effortlessly makes someone strong, because of the standards we have for our species. The average human can already do it. Therefore, the person did not become strong or beautiful, and therefore it was not calisthenics. The person became healthy. Weighted calisthenics is just adding weight to a movement that itself qualifies as calisthenics, meaning that it begets strength and beauty when done unweighted, in healthy and average humans.

i just pull and up, why the need of so much investigation?

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