Fitness

A place to talk about fitness and health on Farcaster.

Bodyweight training is way too underrated

Let me tell you:

My absolute biggest strength gains for compound moves were made when i was doing only bodyweight calisthenics for 3-4 months in my local fitness park.
Only equipment was gymnastic rings.

GymLifts went from:

Bench 80kg -> 115kg
Squat 100kg -> 160kg

that’s incredible! i’ve always adhered to the philosophy that strength is more so about control and fluidity than it is pure brawn.

calisthenics is a great example of that. to be so strong that you can hold yourself up; that is true strength!

(plus the gains for weightlifting are pretty fire too lmao)

i know that i know nothing. thinking out loud in /quezt while listening to /hiphop.

you are right on the mark! 🎯
i dedicate one day a week just for stability work. it’s lowkey one of my favorites. more mentally challenging than anything.

Yeah i think what happened is that my body suddenly had to train a lot of stabilizing smaller musclegroups to stabilize the bodyweight lifts.

My gym lifts afterwards felt much much more confident and cleaner as a result