The Harsh Truth About Calisthenics

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Daniel & Simonster discuss Why do calisthenics athletes skip leg day? Why does being taller and heavier make bodyweight exercises harder? How to measure progress when training calisthenics?
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@FitnessFAQs 6 ай бұрын

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@prakasarevo5435 8 күн бұрын

My uncle, please subtitle on mode

@bluedwarfgaming7350 6 ай бұрын

It may come to a surprise that "leg calisthenics" is not simply forgotten , It instead has got different names like sprinting, jumping things are actually leg calisthenics if you see it closely.

@randybowman 6 ай бұрын

Squats with a barbell are just weighted bodyweight squats. So they're kinda weighted calisthenics.

@xozu 6 ай бұрын

Barbell squat is pretty much weighted calisthenics...

@Tan12 6 ай бұрын

@@randybowman The real question is, does it count as calisthenics if you do a deadlift motion with no weight? Meaning deadlifts are also weighted calisthenics? By that logic pretty much all closed-chain movements are calisthenics.

@FitnessFAQs 6 ай бұрын

I like this perspective beyond just mainstream resistance training

@randybowman 6 ай бұрын

@@Tan12 I'd say it depends on if there's a calisthenics exercise that relates. Like an overhead press isn't a weighted handstand press for example, but you could add weight to a handstand press.

@xAave 6 ай бұрын

2 days Calisthenics 2 days Weight lifting is my advice. ( Don't skip leg day )

@thothtrismegistus4726 5 ай бұрын

A great way to be mid in both

@Dotalol123 5 ай бұрын

@@thothtrismegistus4726Don't bother bro, people don't understand that "Jack of all trades, master of none" is a real thing, full gym split will consume your whole week very easy...

@NoRockinMansLand 5 ай бұрын

Don't need to lad

@zhangzongchang1057 5 ай бұрын

Nah I just do both on the same day. If it's a push day for example I'd do the standard Bench press, overhead press etc. But I also do push ups and dips with them as well and it works pretty well.

@aoescool 5 ай бұрын

this.. especially getting older.. when joint pain becomes issue

@erickstotle4285 6 ай бұрын

I still cant understand why people wouldn't train their legs man, The reason I started training calisthenics was to help me with parkour but before that I was skater and trust when you ollies 7 to 8 stairs the impact will wear your joints down if legs are not trained. Basically what I am saying is train your whole body, and every aspect

@mateuswill1 6 ай бұрын

To compete. To win.

@54928 6 ай бұрын

calisthenics performers tend to ignore legs or just straight up don't train them cause the extra lower body mass will hinder them in performing all the tricks we see in videos. it really depends on what you're training calisthenics for, if you train just for fitness then you shouldn't neglect the lower body but if you're trying to perform tricks then it's necessary to have the correct upper/lower body proportion to perform said tricks. if your legs are too heavy that you can't stabilize them with your upper body/core muscles then you'll most likely not be able to perform the tricks and you might end up injuring yourself in the process too.

@erickstotle4285 6 ай бұрын

@@54928 but that begs the question could you train to adept ? Identify the weaknesses and work on them, but thank you for your comment my man!

@erickstotle4285 6 ай бұрын

@@mateuswill1 the comment under yours explained the reason for competing. How ever i would train whole body for parkour, but that is different than tricks done by calisthenics guys. I mean used to practice tricking but again that a different skill

@erickstotle4285 6 ай бұрын

@@mateuswill1 also thank you for your time, both you and @54928 took time to comment !

@thothtrismegistus4726 5 ай бұрын

Clear and concise information. Thank you

@gamer_for_life9549 6 ай бұрын

True calisthenics takes time to move from a skill to the other but when skills are achieved strength gets inside u.

@KaieteurClax 5 ай бұрын

Yes inside. I think that the muscle memory is so strong the body helps you remember even after years down the line.

@jdotoz 6 ай бұрын

Ring dips are significantly harder. I could barely get two at a time when I started even though I can do multiple sets of seven weighted dips.

@billy2807 6 ай бұрын

This is a HUGE relief. I have rings, but not a dip rack. I can only do 3-4 (sloppy) reps, and I was horrified. :D

@billy2807 6 ай бұрын

This is a HUGE relief. I have rings, but not a dip rack. I can only do 3-4 (sloppy) ring dips and I was horrified. :D

@Mingmingmeow90 5 ай бұрын

S@@billy2807 someone can do 230lbs on dip bar, and only 160 on rings

@marcusholtzmann8387 5 ай бұрын

Having 2 16oz water bottles in your back pockets is not considered weighted dips. 😂

@jdotoz 5 ай бұрын

@@marcusholtzmann8387 Uh, ok.

@ApeironTO 6 ай бұрын

so just train legs for strength and not hypertrophy

@noodlery7034 6 ай бұрын

Lol I felt called out looking at the thumbnail

@videsuprax3 5 ай бұрын

Well-developed legs can offer greater resistance for the development of greater upper body strength via levered exercises - if upper body strength is the primary fitness goal, rather than solely the goal of performance of gymnastic skills.

@simcard027 5 ай бұрын

this is why i’m currently working to lose 10kg off my feet and ankles to help me do the planche

@harry.calisthenics4115 6 ай бұрын

Calisthenics is bodyweight strength. not "upperbody bodyweight strength". If you only train upperbody calisthenics you are by definition a specialist and incomplete. Sprinting is probably the ultimate expression of bodyweight strength all things considered

@IsaacMorgan98 5 ай бұрын

As far as strength is concerned, no, sprinting is not the ultimate expression of strength. A sprinter is actually remarkably weak compared to a strength athlete of equal size. I think people think strength and power and the same thing but they really aren't. Strength is the ability to withstand mechanial load or to keep moving regardless of mechanical load, power is your ability to display what strength you have quickly. Sprinting is a demonstration of power, they can demonstrate what they have very fast but if you put a strongmans 450kg yoke ontop of their shoulders they would simply collapse either immediately or as soon as they tried to take a step. That being said a sprinter is generally much more powerful than a strongman as their able to display what strength they have so much faster.

@harry.calisthenics4115 5 ай бұрын

@@IsaacMorgan98 Its pretty easy to dismantle a strawman isn't it. Keyword - "BODYWEIGHT strength". One of the highest mechanical loads you can generate with your bodyweight only is during footstrike in maximum speed running. Otherwise yes I understand the strength/power distinction and of course lifters are better at what they specialise in.

@IsaacMorgan98 5 ай бұрын

@harry.calisthenics4115 ahhh sorry, I misread and thought you only said bodyweight strength for upper body and not when talking about sprinting. If restricted to bodyweight only then yes, it's probably sprinting however that is very restrictive of human capacity

@stonemanson4884 6 ай бұрын

I would definitely start out from feet touching ground level on ring dips

@zod-engineering-welding 6 ай бұрын

The thing that has helped me the most for regular dips and now ring dips, by far, are executing the negatives as controlled as possible, and doing only sets of negatives. Of course there's a whole plethora of things to take into account like core activation, arm squeezing, etc, but as long as you do the negatives consistently, I feel they are they key to many many calisthenics exercises.

@stonemanson4884 6 ай бұрын

@@zod-engineering-welding I’ve had the same experience with the negative. Thank you

@SK1LAH 6 ай бұрын

Daniel, where You get my photo for thumbnail? 😭

@TheCrapOnYourStrapOn 5 ай бұрын

Right? It’s a perfect representation of how my wife sees me

@Cato-e6p 6 ай бұрын

I train my legs 3-4 times a week , it's worth it , take time for recovery ,don't skip leg days guys , keep grinding and trust the process. 💪 🦵

@Bookphotocopier1288 6 ай бұрын

You dont train them hard enough if you train them 3-4 times a week

@Cato-e6p 6 ай бұрын

@@Bookphotocopier1288you don't know bro, they become so sore

@kenneyp.9456 6 ай бұрын

Benefits?

@suzuyajuuzou4389 6 ай бұрын

3-4 times is crazy for legs Ur either not training hard enough or ur just wasting your time because you won't recover enough

@spooooky2008 6 ай бұрын

⁠@@Cato-e6pI can sprint 2 miles and my legs will get sore at Doesn’t mean that I successfully triggered hypertrophy tho.

@ForbiddenWellness 5 ай бұрын

Calisthenics w/ a weighted leg day is the way 🔥

@jhf99991 5 ай бұрын

Yep exactly much easier to scale upper body calisthenics thru progressions than lower body. So add a day (for me 2 days) weighted squats deadlifts & variations 💪

@LucidStrike 5 ай бұрын

As much as I'd love to master full planche, I love my long gams too much not to train them. 🤷🏿‍♂️

@teef7819 6 ай бұрын

didnt know mans zelmerlow was doing calisthenics

@voornaamachternaam5745 5 ай бұрын

TRUE TRUE ! I NOTICED ALL THE BAR CALLESTENICS GUYS ON KZbin HAVE SKINNY LEGS I GUESS A STRONG UPPERBODY IS BETTER THEN NOTHING !

@paulmarshall9189 6 ай бұрын

The purpose of strength training is to make changes in your body that increase your sporting capacity. That capacity could be measured in the training movements themselves or in other movements. But obviously it doesn't make sense to change your body in ways that work against your performance goals. All movements have both strength and technique components, both in training and performance. Some sports (powerlifting, for example) are primarily trained by developing strength in the actual performance movements. And other sports (climbing, for example) are trained partly with strength movements that are much easier technically than the performance movements.

@voornaamachternaam5745 5 ай бұрын

BUT THE SOCCERPLAYER BODY BIG STRONG LEGS WITH SKINNY UPPERBODY DOESNT WORK EITHER ?

@pupper5580 5 ай бұрын

There was a calisthenics guy with chicken legs and I pointed it out in the comments of his video (because he was acting like he had the perfect physique) - this guy reported me for cyber bullying or something lol.

@ProdSLB Ай бұрын

Aright.

@dutenica 3 ай бұрын

Do both

@aspirant8016 6 ай бұрын

coupon code?

@mkryu 6 ай бұрын

Now it makes sense why gymnasts have small legs.

@turul9392 6 ай бұрын

@@mkryu Calisthenics doesn't train legs properly

@mkryu 6 ай бұрын

@@turul9392 it’s because larger muscular legs would change their center of gravity.

@turul9392 6 ай бұрын

@@mkryu Center of gravity shouldn't be a limiting factor for hypertrophy. It's self imposed nonsense. Use all tools available: Barbell, free weights, machine AND calisthenics. In 2024 there is no reason to restrict yourself from accessing modern equipment.

@mkryu 6 ай бұрын

@@turul9392 he explains center of gravity in the beginning of the video. I always wondered why gymnasts had such great upper body size but underdeveloped legs in comparison. Now I know. 🤗

@kevinburke1325 6 ай бұрын

@@turul9392yes, it does.

@PayKay96 6 ай бұрын

If you compare a small person to a big one, doing 10 PullUps f. E. for the big one can be like 20 for the small one, or even more. But there's no way to know exactly, at least I don't know the formula for it haha

@nemoparos 6 ай бұрын

subtitles please

@MitternachtssternXIII 6 ай бұрын

u should train legs alot legs and back is most important

@AlwaysYahweh 5 ай бұрын

Come to papa moon

@Travisthehungarian 6 ай бұрын

The thumbnail just roasted my legs UwU

@Lemon-squeezer 6 ай бұрын

I started to train legs first workout of the week it’s the only way to get me to train them 😂 with calisthenics you have your body weight squats and pistol squats but very quickly you gotta add weight,I use the vest you put weight plates on and I’ll do jump squats split squats Nordic curls and I’ve built myself a calf raise stand aswell I hate going to the gym

@SLouiss 6 ай бұрын

Funny thumbnail.

@janjanicek3244 6 ай бұрын

I can do pants😅

@Seanonyoutube 6 ай бұрын

I heard nothing harsh…

@BillyBob-hz2wx 6 ай бұрын

If you train your legs in a low intensity but lots of reps could be beneficial so you don't get big legs just strengthen them

@nickronin9618 6 ай бұрын

Ever seen Akeem ?

@GabWorkouts 6 ай бұрын

My dad have big calves and i inherited it MY CALVES ARE BIG!!! So its harder to do staticskills.

@richardjamesclemo6235 5 ай бұрын

Same, my dad also inherited it from his mom!

@SadisticCultures 5 ай бұрын

Legs are useless anyway for calisthenics. If I train legs I won’t be able to full planche anymore and I’d rather be obese than lose that ability

@gur262 5 ай бұрын

😂 aaaand that's why 🐔🍗 bad reason really.

@yourisamir930 6 ай бұрын

How i train if i have a long arms i didn't gain any muscle in calisthenis please make a video of this

@FirstnameLastname-yc2mt 5 ай бұрын

do more reps. you have to continously increase the intensity. harder than last time. supplement with creatine and protein. calisthenics has me looking great!

@zhangzongchang1057 5 ай бұрын

@@FirstnameLastname-yc2mtonly up to a point. After that variations are the way to go.

@FTYC2022 5 ай бұрын

@@zhangzongchang1057what are variations?

@zhangzongchang1057 5 ай бұрын

@@FTYC2022 take pushups for example. If you can't do them at all, you'd start with wall pushups or maybe knee pushups or inclined pushups, whatever you can do. Then you'd be able to do normal pushups. After that you could perhaps do diamond pushups, pike pushups, decline pushups. You could increase you range of motion, pause at the bottom etc. This is better than just increasing your reps, which would increase your endurance but won't do much for your strength and hypertrophy.