Yeah. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the channel has some sudden big growth. Keep it up @Andrew! You might break through like Hybrid Calisthenics, MovementbyDavid, or Minus The Gym, for example. Your content is great!
I remember, when I was learning the muscle-up, there were so many videos basically saying "Just swing on the bar and if you can do 10 pull-ups you can do a muscle-up". I, at the time, had a 20 pull-up reps PR, but, looking back, I still wasn't strong enough. It took months of training to achieve it. I also started going to the gym and surprisingly, I completed my first muscle-up there. Technique also plays a big role, but that just wasn't my case. I love the advice and your videos in general, mate. Keep the "no BS" content going!
I love the simplicity of this video. No waffle, no over the top nonsense on niche progressions that half of us can't even do, just a guy straight up talking about his experience training these insane skills. Love it bro
As a person who recently started with calisthenics properly after years of just sticking with military style bodyweight exercises, I really appreciate having an idea of when I might be able to reasonably start working on the more complicated or demanding skills. Great video 🤙
Front lever is way more easier than most people think in my opinion. Its a skill you can easily learn if you were just lifting weights before calisthenics.
I think it depends. I hear what you're saying, particularly if your have long arms relative to your torso, or if you hold a lot of muscle on your upper back (cheat code for the front lever btw), then you will have a far easier time learning Front lever. On your point about lifting weights before, I 100% agree for two reasons, your joints are likely going to be better prepared (particularly the shoulders) and actually you'll have likely built up a decent base of muscle that just needs to be specifically conditioned to the skill (which is easier than building new muscle and learning the skill at the same time)
Thank you for all the videos really enjoying all the breakdowns, advice, and walkthroughs. 😁 Still wondering about the setup you have. Aiming to build my own in the garden, but I've seen a lot of terrible (read: unstable setup) advice in most TH-cam videos. Would you care to share how your pull up bar, etc. are built? Thanks! Edit: Setting the foundations for a stable bar is not necessarily straight forward. Yours seems stable and aesthetic.
Thanks! And your question is an interesting one as I didn't build it, I ended up using a company called Xorbars and - you're right - the quality is A1. I did HELP with the build though so I am planning on doing a. Breakdown of my set up very soon (this week or week after). On that point it would be interesting to know what YOU would like to know. I plan on chatting about the wood, the steel, the height, how deep into the ground it goes etc. Anything you feel I've missed out?? 👊🏿
@@CaliToTheCrowd That sounds great! Thank you! Appreciate it! I guess, a follow up questions would be if you would have changed/added anything if you'd build it again today? :)
Great video: For one main disagreement (although minor is the planche requirements) I do believe that pike pushups/ hspu progression reps should also be included in the general requirements before starting planche. I.e being able to do 3 sets of 6-8 pike pushups/ elevated and so on. Oth
I actually agree a lot with this! You're right, planche is 100% better characterised by a more specific shoulder exercise like the Handstand Push Up. I'll admit, my main motivation for using dips was I wanted to get as much data from the survey in here as possible 😂 considering it is the best sample of Calisthenics athlete's strength that I've ever seen Cheers for the love, Jim 👊🏿
This caveat at the beginning is definately true. I can do 12+ pullups and do high pullups, but muscle up is still some time away. I also have a +60% bodyweight dip, but am still struggling to unlock straddle planche.
I agree, i can do 18 clean body weight pull ups non stop, can do +40kg on weighted pull ups but still cannot muscle up. (I weigh 85kg 186cm) Your dip strength is impressive good stuff can I ask what rep range you train dips / how you progress the overload? I had shoulder issues in the past due to lack of knowledge i would not train pushing movements for years so my dips are weak currently working with +25kg on dips
This confusion that number of reps means strength is completely wrong. The truth is that the number of reps = endurance (in that area). Therefore, the true requirements for something is not the number of reps but the quality of the execution (if it is high pull up for example - the height and the speed) or the added weight (if it is a pull up/dips). For example I believe that even one high pull up to the chest is far than enough for muscle up. And it does not matter how many you can do. I know many people who can do 20 pull ups and 15 dips but cannot do a muscle up. Myself - I can do only five pull ups (not trained for reps for long time) but I can do three muscle ups in a row.
Very insightful, thank you! Are these bodyweight percentages for pull-ups and dips 1rms or should I aim for a few reps before considering skill-specific training?
This video seems to talk a lot about requirements to get started, rather than strength standards to get skills mostly 'for free'. +40-50% weighted pullup should give you a clean bar muscle up; strict OHP/weighted dip your bodyweight 5 times and you should have a straddle planche
To some extent this focus on 'starting strength Requirements' is on purpose. I see soo many people try to learn to muscle up when they can barely string 5 clean pull ups together because they saw a gimmick on TikTok. For me this is the real issue holding most people back - not being strong enough on day 1 is probably the reason we'll plateau on day 51
That is definitely enough strength to start working on a muscle up. You'll just need to train specifically for it now e.g. high pull ups: th-cam.com/video/MmXLRiNtJMA/w-d-xo.html
You're really the most underrated channel on TH-cam. Every time I see a video, I'm shocked you don't have more subs
Yeah. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the channel has some sudden big growth. Keep it up @Andrew! You might break through like Hybrid Calisthenics, MovementbyDavid, or Minus The Gym, for example. Your content is great!
The love here means a lot! Makes it extremely easy to stay motivated to keep making videos 👊🏿
Petition to get this channel to 1 million subs. Criminally underrated
Haha! Thanks Jaxon! You're very kind 😅
I remember, when I was learning the muscle-up, there were so many videos basically saying "Just swing on the bar and if you can do 10 pull-ups you can do a muscle-up". I, at the time, had a 20 pull-up reps PR, but, looking back, I still wasn't strong enough. It took months of training to achieve it. I also started going to the gym and surprisingly, I completed my first muscle-up there. Technique also plays a big role, but that just wasn't my case. I love the advice and your videos in general, mate. Keep the "no BS" content going!
I love the simplicity of this video. No waffle, no over the top nonsense on niche progressions that half of us can't even do, just a guy straight up talking about his experience training these insane skills. Love it bro
As a person who recently started with calisthenics properly after years of just sticking with military style bodyweight exercises, I really appreciate having an idea of when I might be able to reasonably start working on the more complicated or demanding skills. Great video 🤙
Front lever is way more easier than most people think in my opinion. Its a skill you can easily learn if you were just lifting weights before calisthenics.
I think it depends.
I hear what you're saying, particularly if your have long arms relative to your torso, or if you hold a lot of muscle on your upper back (cheat code for the front lever btw), then you will have a far easier time learning Front lever.
On your point about lifting weights before, I 100% agree for two reasons, your joints are likely going to be better prepared (particularly the shoulders) and actually you'll have likely built up a decent base of muscle that just needs to be specifically conditioned to the skill (which is easier than building new muscle and learning the skill at the same time)
Only if you are short guy ;)
Exceptional informative Outformation of strength requirements of Calisthenics....😊
Glad you liked it! 👊🏿
This is great knowledge. Thank you 🙏
You're welcome Tom 👊🏿
Keep up the great work brother!
Thanks man 👊🏿
Thank you for all the videos really enjoying all the breakdowns, advice, and walkthroughs.
😁 Still wondering about the setup you have. Aiming to build my own in the garden, but I've seen a lot of terrible (read: unstable setup) advice in most TH-cam videos. Would you care to share how your pull up bar, etc. are built? Thanks!
Edit: Setting the foundations for a stable bar is not necessarily straight forward. Yours seems stable and aesthetic.
Thanks!
And your question is an interesting one as I didn't build it, I ended up using a company called Xorbars and - you're right - the quality is A1.
I did HELP with the build though so I am planning on doing a. Breakdown of my set up very soon (this week or week after).
On that point it would be interesting to know what YOU would like to know.
I plan on chatting about the wood, the steel, the height, how deep into the ground it goes etc.
Anything you feel I've missed out??
👊🏿
@@CaliToTheCrowd That sounds great! Thank you! Appreciate it!
I guess, a follow up questions would be if you would have changed/added anything if you'd build it again today? :)
Great video:
For one main disagreement (although minor is the planche requirements)
I do believe that pike pushups/ hspu progression reps should also be included in the general requirements before starting planche. I.e being able to do 3 sets of 6-8 pike pushups/ elevated and so on.
Oth
I actually agree a lot with this!
You're right, planche is 100% better characterised by a more specific shoulder exercise like the Handstand Push Up.
I'll admit, my main motivation for using dips was I wanted to get as much data from the survey in here as possible 😂 considering it is the best sample of Calisthenics athlete's strength that I've ever seen
Cheers for the love, Jim 👊🏿
This caveat at the beginning is definately true. I can do 12+ pullups and do high pullups, but muscle up is still some time away.
I also have a +60% bodyweight dip, but am still struggling to unlock straddle planche.
I agree, i can do 18 clean body weight pull ups non stop, can do +40kg on weighted pull ups but still cannot muscle up. (I weigh 85kg 186cm)
Your dip strength is impressive good stuff can I ask what rep range you train dips / how you progress the overload?
I had shoulder issues in the past due to lack of knowledge i would not train pushing movements for years so my dips are weak currently working with +25kg on dips
You’re great 👍
Thanks for the love, Alid 💪🏿
I could listen to you break down bodyweight training for ages. You should start a podcast for real
Haha maybe one day! 😅
This confusion that number of reps means strength is completely wrong. The truth is that the number of reps = endurance (in that area).
Therefore, the true requirements for something is not the number of reps but the quality of the execution (if it is high pull up for example - the height and the speed) or the added weight (if it is a pull up/dips).
For example I believe that even one high pull up to the chest is far than enough for muscle up. And it does not matter how many you can do.
I know many people who can do 20 pull ups and 15 dips but cannot do a muscle up. Myself - I can do only five pull ups (not trained for reps for long time) but I can do three muscle ups in a row.
Great video brother keep going ❤
Thanks bro! 👊🏿
Very insightful, thank you! Are these bodyweight percentages for pull-ups and dips 1rms or should I aim for a few reps before considering skill-specific training?
this was helpful
You're welcome 👊🏿
This video seems to talk a lot about requirements to get started, rather than strength standards to get skills mostly 'for free'. +40-50% weighted pullup should give you a clean bar muscle up; strict OHP/weighted dip your bodyweight 5 times and you should have a straddle planche
To some extent this focus on 'starting strength Requirements' is on purpose.
I see soo many people try to learn to muscle up when they can barely string 5 clean pull ups together because they saw a gimmick on TikTok.
For me this is the real issue holding most people back - not being strong enough on day 1 is probably the reason we'll plateau on day 51
i cand do 16 pull ups and i dont have the strenght to do a muscle up
That is definitely enough strength to start working on a muscle up. You'll just need to train specifically for it now e.g. high pull ups: th-cam.com/video/MmXLRiNtJMA/w-d-xo.html
Muscle up is all about technique unfortunately.
I have question is the pull up station that you have in your backyard homemade? And if so how did you build it?
XOR bars
Lil nas X but im not uncomfortable looking at him 😂
This might be the best one yet 😅
You sound like you use proper punctuation every time you typing
is that a bad thing 🤔
i can do a handstand push up but cannot do 10 pull ups 😐
Calisthenics is weird like that 💪🏿