Redpill me on bodyweight exercises, Veeky Forums

Waste of time if you want to get big

Good for complete beginners.
They are better off heading to the gym after 2 months tho.

If you're a rock climber, lifting heavy weights can add extra mass that makes climbing a wall harder, while lifting your body weight adds just enough for the purpose of
lifting your fucking body

Body weight exercises are also good for people who spend a lot of time in scenarios where your body is moving through multiple positions regularly.
I'm high, so the only example I can give is a soldier and pushups.
fall, crawl, push up, sprint, repeat.
for what feels like forever, lifting heavy doesn't help. as you don't often do the repetitions I am talking about with a heavy weight.

there aren't very true. while you won't be able to get quite as big, that is because you won't be able to do as wide range of workouts and you won't be able to do low reps or apply periodization.

two months in I'd be surprised if you could do more than three pull ups. bodyweight exercises are great for the first year at least, as the chance of injury to a novice is extremely limited. the lack of variation in exercises will also mean your workouts will only last about 30 minutes, done three times a week you can get on the right track with very little time spent. every advanced lifter should even have a bodyweight workout at their disposal, its a great change of pace and extremely useful for vacations.

Bodyweight stuff is awesome for the upper body.

Pullups, L-pullups, archer pullups, one arm pullups, muscle ups...

Pushups, ring pushups, archer pushups, one arm pushups, handstand pushups, dips, ring dips...

Plus progressions towards planche, front lever, back lever, and manna.

However, there aren't many great bodyweight workouts for the lower body. You can do back extensions, glute ham raises, pistol squats, step ups, jumps, and sprints, which aren't bad at all, but you will get a lot more bang for your buck with weighted movements.

brehs

I don't have the image so I'm basically useless but there's that developing body weight exercises chart that has progressively harder exercises for different areas. I know eventually you would plateau AND THEN weights would be your best option, but that shit is like after you can do handstand pushups etc.

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I'd kill anyone that trains bodyweight in one punch

But I'm 6'8 273lbs . I would wreck you

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LoL manlet, when will you learn? Im a 7'1, 216 cm, Dutch giant. I would kiss you on the top of your head as i smother you with my giant arms

Love me some pullups. Every other day when i workout I'll begin with pullups, mainly because i feel it helps my OHP which i do right after (makes it easier to fire my muscles for the movement). I then do a set often throughout the day, making sure i stop 1 rep short of failure.
It has really helped my lats grow and my v taper is bomb.
Dips are also fantastic.

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>mfw can't do pullups
>6'6 / 198cm 115kg fatass
>couldn't do even 1 when I weighed 85kg either

how common are ass implants really?

do you see a girl with a nice ass and just assume?

I mean they're wearing yoga pants, which are absolutely engineered to be like the push-up bra of the ass.

body-weight exercise best exercise. no need for a a gym membershit, and getting big is fucking lame imo, if you go for "massive gains" you will probably just end up a massive fatass in a few years when you get tired of lifting weights

>if you eat a ton as if you were working out regularly but stop working out you'll get fat
Wow! Informative!

Well, I've been running, doing gymnastics (general), calisthenics and weightlifting for three years now
Started as a complete skelly at 59kg at 12%, now 70kg at 9%
I've got wide shoulders and microscopic waist so I look good, but I'd say bodyweight is important to do just because you'd prefer being able to manipulate your bodyweight without much difficulty

Being a functional human being with a certain degree of strength (something like a 2pl8 binch) and endurance is much better than being just "a big guy" who can't run at least 2km without stopping.

>they're wearing yoga pants, which are absolutely engineered to be like the push-up bra of the ass

No they're not
Please stop this meme

Difficult to load most of them incrementally, and impossible to load them heavy (they wouldn't be bodyweight exercises then, would they) in order to build up actual strength, or any muscle if you aren't on steroids.

Chin ups are a necessity, dips can be useful (both of these are relatively easy to add weight to, incidentally), everything else is a parlor trick at best and a waste of time at worst.

It depends on your goals.

If you want to look fit and lean, have a 6 pack, learn to use your body effectively and impress girls without paying any money, bodyweight exercises are good.

If you want to get strong and BIG and feel manly lifting is the go.

Bodyweight exercises are fun as fuck and if you did it consistently for about a year you'd probably get to ottermode but that's the absolute limit. If you do choose to go down the bodyweight route, you'll probably find that after a while you're just not happy with your gains anymore and you'll get a gym membership.

Do both and let the retards argue

thanks for that user, have a funny doggo

Veeky Forums has a pretty narrow view of body weight exercises. You ain't gonna get very far with just pull-ups and dips, and those are the only bodyweight exercises lifters know well.

Gymnastics is where it's at bro. Find some rings, head over to /asp/s bodyweight thread (avoid the pro-wrestling cancer) and start Foundation + Handstand. You probably won't ever get as big as a bodybuilder, but if you wanna be lean natty strong, gymnast bodies are ideal. Plus, planches, dragon flags and shit look mad impressive, if that matters to you

>ottermode but that's the absolute limit

>Gymnastics
I'm intrigued. I've always wanted that kind of agility,

All you need is pullups and pushups tbqhfam. Throw in muscle-ups if you want to attract mires in the gym.

Isn't that from a porno, kendra lust & ariella ferrera

Could be? To be honest I just googled "TRX yoga pants" and grabbed the juiciest butts I could find.

top gymnasts aren't natty, and it's not a very effective way to gain strength and size. gymnasts look pretty good because their sport requires them to be lean, but there's nothing about doing gymnastics itself that will make you lean. you have to diet down like everyone else. gymnastics is cool, but it's a much less efficient way to gain strength and size than lifting. though in return you gain lots of cool skills that lifting won't give you. a smart person would do strength training in addition to gymnastics.

I looks like the realtykings video, CFNM

I weigh 75kg and cannot do 1 (one) measly pullup.

Well, when he's not tensing every visible muscle of his body, and with a normal bf%, he'd just be ottermode, you didn't contraddict him.

Gymnasts pretty much dry themselves up to just muscle and bone so that they can be as light as possible, they always look more muscular than they already are.

What is ottermode?

>The average person at the gym's I've been to weigh about 160 and are repping 135, they'd be a lot better off just doing pushups and wouldn't have to pay for a gym membership.

Oh yeah, I'm sure a 25 lbs increase in weight all at once will be totally beneficial.

The chumps would be better served by eating/sleeping more, doing their fives, and adding five pounds of weight at a time.

Picture a swimmer's physique. That's it.
That's why it's ottermode.

T. Hungry skeleton

try doing pistolsquats with a 40kg dummbbell in each hand and another 80kg in a rucksack and tell me about no progression

The 80kg rucksack acts as a counterbalance. However, if you try to pistol squats with 40kg in one hand you will find it to be extremely difficult and physically taxing.

Do bodyweight, parkour, lift big and basic, then do some direct shoulder and arm work, and you will be the best looking dude in the world.

damn nigger how did you gain 30kg?

Klokov incorporates them into his training (see "hercules complex") therefore they are good enough for me.
bw

>weighted one leg squats

Abs:
youtube.com/watch?v=PsV-pFoIUZk

why are you on Veeky Forums?

I can do a 10kg pistol squat but am struggling with 100 kg squat.
I weigh 85 kg
It's really more about getting used to the movement and having the flexibility.

This is why for general athleticism it's best to combine both

Ever here if resistance bands or weight vests? Pushups activate so many more muscle groups than weight presses.

>No planches
>No planche push ups
>No 90° push ups
>No lalanne push ups
>No lever pull ups
>No one arm levers
>No one arm handstands

This is an intro to moderate bodyweight training, except for the one arm chin up.

Also, the progressions are not that good

You do realize the regular ottermode can't look this ripped even when he tenses all his muscles?

A healthy body won't look very ripped when it isn't in motion. It's rather unhealthy to make your body so that it is at its full flexing just by mare mirror posing.

I have what you call otter mode body, the fat easily smoothens the surface as the muscles aren't abnormally bigger than one another. But when I use my body to do something dynamic, it's then when it shines the most.

maybe you are not used to the movement of the normal squat. when I first started lifting I could do one legged squats 1x3 with 20kg at 70 bw
first session I did 5x5 atg with 70kg barely but by the 3rd time I was doing 110kg

eg skinny DYEL that used to be fat
sucks to be you

do people really have a hard time doing pullups?

I'm 150 and can rep out 20 with good form

You haven't really countered any of the points in the post you're replying to though. He was just saying that gymnasts have abnormally low bf%, and the photo you picked was taken during a point of muscle contraction.

Gymnasts look like they're flexed all the time because there's nothing between their skin, pulled like a tent over their muscles 24/7, and their muscle. It's not really comparable to a 'normal' weight lifter.

i've seen a old dude doing curls on this and it triggered me, so i gave it a try and holy shit, its hard as fuck

I'm 6ft3 100kg and can do 20.

I'm 5'7 and can do 50, kappa

TRX dips, pullups, full-elevation pushups and tuck lever rows are the four real exercises you'll never see anyone doing on TRX, but I'm pretty sure the guy who invented the TRX figured out those are the only ones worth doing... the rest of the things you can do are just progressions to that point, but nobody really gets that far.

Yes but you're 5'7

They might have very low bodyfat, but when they are not moving they DON'T look like they are flexing, they look ottermode. They trsin their bodies as a whole in dynamic positions, not targeting one specific muscle, and as I was saying in earlier post, such training makes the body more congruous, making any fat quickly fill the gaps in and make it appear smoother. Also the muscles are relaxed rather than unnaturally tensed up when they walk or stand around. The body flexes the most when it actually is in some straining position, not simply just your flexing.

5'7 Veeky Forums kid is more attractive than 6'6 giraffe beast unless your a super human pro athlete who somehow looks good in spite of freakish size.
>see JJ Watt

Implying lifting 75kg off the ground without cheating is easy for the majority of this board

Pushups and presses are not even the same plane of motion.

>I'm 150

What exactly are you even asking? How does one redpill you about bodyweight exercises?

I'd say bodyweight exercises like pullups/chinups and dips can be very difficult to start with if you are a complete noob. You basically have to start with your whole bodyweight. The more you weigh, more difficult it will be. It would be easier to start with assisted pullups and dips or with lat pulldown machine. You can even start benchpress with dumbells if you can't bench the bar.

I wanna be able to do this

That isn't bodyweight, it is retard? It's an extremely convoluted way of squatting less effectively than simply squatting would be.