What does Veeky Forums think about calisthenics?

Is it worth it to do? I don't really see why it would be worse than lifting but I don't know that much.

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Really fucking boring, far less gains than lifting weights.

>boring as fuck
>great looking results after a lot of time training
>far less autistic than lifting when it comes to conversations

How is it boring compared to lifting? It's just excersises, same as lifting weights

>far less autistic than lifting when it comes to conversations
>talking with people

Exercises*

I'll take "What are repetitions" for 300, Skip.

Whats boring about it?

Its fun to do outside on a playground in the summer with your shirt off. Milfs gon' be mirin

if you do it properly, it's as good as weightlifting for a beginner. if your goal is to get zyzz mode or bigger, you won't be able to reach it with calisthenics alone. But otherwise, you can have nice progress with it as well.
Check thefortress on youtube.

For me:
200m sprints 1x a week
30 min. swimming cardio 1x a week
gynmastics/calisthenics 3x a week
flexibility/stretching daily

I'll never go back to the weighroom. Maybe it's because I'm over 30, but I've started to think sustainability and general health more than aesthetics. If you're a gym regular, you'll lose size, but damn do I feel better now. I eat less because I'm not worried about bulking. My cardiovascular health is much better. I'm slimmer, but people still comment on my "muscles" at the beach--probably just because I have abs, and low body fat.

I enjoyed my gym days, but long term I think joint health, reasonable muscularity, and connective tissue strength are more important, and most importantly: sustainable. I'll probably have to quit sprinting one day, but I can swim until I'm 100.

Yeah my goal isn't to get massive, I prefer the leaner look anyway. I just need to get rings and a pullup bar in order to do all the exercises.

>if your goal is to get zyzz mode
I'm already a skeleton xD

If you are naturally a big guy, and have a big frame, you could look pretty good doing it. If youre skelly mode, I wouldnt recommend it. Its obvious that because youre doing bodyweight the weight is relative to your body. If youre a lightweight skinny fuck, you will not make alot of gains. You will need weights for that.

I was a skinny fuck and started out my workout career with doing 1 year of calisthenics. I made some gains and definition. But when I eventually went to the gym, I made similar gains in just 2-3 months of lifting.

>Better / more natural than lifting weights because each exercise works out multiple supporting muscles
>More fun because progression means you switch to a harder exercise rather than constantly doing the same thing and adding more weight
>More practical strength, in sports etc you need to lift / support your bodyweight, not some random metal plates
>Showing off your strength by doing exercises like your pic is seen as a cool trick to normies rather than showing you can lift X lbs which comes off as narcissistic

Yeah im skelly as fuck

>No legs

Can't you just do pistol squats for legs? I don't know what exercises would get calf gains though

I did calisthenics and no weight lifting for about 9 months and basically fully maintained my upper body. It's hard to train your legs and lower back though. I was a lot weaker on the squat and deadlift when I returned to weights.

Pistol squats are more about balance than leg strength. You won't get very far doing just pistol squats.

I guess you can just hold dumbells or something in order to progress

if you're good enough you can teach to cuties and even charge them

It's called running faggit.

But then it's no longer calisthenics. Calisthenics = bodyweight only, you might as well do barbell squats then.
Glute ham raises with your calves flexed are a good bodyweight exercise for calves.

I lift and do callisthenics, I've just always enjoyed mastering my body weight and enjoy the challenge.

So yeah do both if you can.

People that find one or the other boring is just down to personal preference.

Far more functional strength than lifting

Your muscles don't know what you're lifting, they can only respond to the strain put on them. Why is this so fucking hard for people to grasp?

how about some actually practical movements ie jumps
been practicing for dunks with my basketball friend and weve made mad calf gains also hammies and quads are always sore post workout
additionally we practice some gymnastics stuff like levers

It's very simple, progression is difficult when all you can lift is your bodyweight. Of course you can move to more difficult exercises but It's still much less convenient than just adding another 2,5 lbs to your barbell. In the end, your progress will always be very limited by the small weight you're moving so you end up doing exercises with a lot of repetitions which are fine cardio but suck for strenght/ bodybuilding.

youtube.com/watch?v=yJRonthgcHI

Can you outbench the calisthenics guy, Veeky Forums?

lol nope. all the calisthenics guys at my work (construction) struggle with basic shit

you know you can hang plates on your waist and use vests, right?

>more practical strength, in sports etc

Must be why all the armed services focus so much on it

Good results, safe but slow, way more impressive than lifting [arbitrary number only gay gymbros care about]

Training progression is more complex and basic strength is needed to even begin

if your goal is to become bodybuilder huge dont expect much of it, you could get some decent gains though but it'll take long

Yeah no. Learn what proportionality is.

By Veeky Forumss body disorder standards you'll forever be a skeleton

By actual people though you'll be ripped as fuck and huge

>that autistic guy who insists on showing how he can do 100 pushups on every social occasion
Maybe if you actually went to the gym and moved bigger weights than your 100 lbs skeleton body you wouldnt need to perform exercises so people could notice that you lift

>calisthenics
>more sports practical

Show me a professional rugby/football player who isn't in the weight room at least 3 times a week. And as for running sports, they do running and leg lifts.

>t. tiny calisfaggot

No one has ever called calisthenics faggots "huge". Because they're not. They're specifically tiny.

t. salty gymbro who can't show off his skills without specialised equipment

>cherrypicks a sport that benefits from specifically weightlifting

Huh...

>If youre a lightweight skinny fuck, you will not make alot of gains
>what is bulking

I am sure if the guy on the right started doing hand-stand pushups the girl would forget about Connor in a second, lad.

>fucking tripfag
>crossshit in a name
>posts a proffesional on roids as a proof on anything

Dude isn't pure calisthenics you retard. If you even read a single piece of his works then you'd see this. He even advocates weights for leg workouts.

Plus he isn't natty.

Nigger, half the Slavshit part of street workout looks like this. The other half are twinks spinning on the bar in a thousand different ways.

>triggered by the trip

Okay? And?

this guy makes a good point

but the gym jockys wont be having it

Remember doing mostly calisthenics for wrestling. I felt far more limber and energetic, then I ever felt doing football. Football made made me feel powerful, felt like truck. I own my agility to bodyweight exercises.

I've been getting into it now
Where i live doesn't allow me to have a gym with weights and shit, so the best I can do is parallel bars and pull up bar.
I like the whole support and balance aspect of it, as well as general muscle endurance, I've started caring less about pure mass and size and more about general fitness, balance and flexibility. Plus there are some great moves to show off like planches and handstands and pistol squats.

I've also been really getting into climbing and the qtp2ts there are worth the transition.
The infinite reps part kinda sucks but I can feel my endurance going up pretty quickly, being kind of a beginner/intermediate. Having a lot of variety for each body part helps keeps it interesting tho


Just straight calf raises, a LOT of them.
Long jumps and sprints are also pretty good from what I've felt

now post the one with the arab looking guy and connor

They both look like cool guys but i can't stop myself feeling embarrassed

>that pose

someone needs to tell him to never do that one again.

>Being able to do handstands, dragon flags, planches, flips, and actually becoming an athlete with functional strength is more boring than rigidly lifting perfectly balanced weights up and down in a straight path

being able to run around like voldo is worth it.

thats a chill manlet. id hang out with him

>okay and?

Really nigger? You weee trying to post that guy as a counter argument to "calis eont get you big and you won't look big". So if you knew he was not only not calisthenics only but roiding, why did you post him?

You're retarded

I want to become you but I keep lifting until I get a gf

It's not fun to do

Doing calisthenics by themselves is a long road but it's fun, once you get into doing stuff like handstand pushups, dragon flags and L-sits you're pretty fucking impressive. It'll give you nice and arms a decent chest at least.

Personally I love them as accessory exercises. Dips in particular might actually be the best chest exercise period. I definitely agree with everyone that says most calisthenics are kind of boring though, anything that doesn't involve me climbing some shit or hanging off of something or suspending my body is a fucking chore. That being said, anything that does fall into those categories is fun and that's a decent amount of calisthenics.

Does swimming build muscles?

Jesus Christ, there is always that one cherry.
Do we really have to do that thing where I go through several more or lesser known figures and you keep on saying "but X, but Y, but Z"?

google any olympic swimmers name

How did one get out of the pit?

I heard that at this level they spend more time in the gym than in the pool, so it doesnt prove much. Like in pretty much any professional sport which requires certain muscle mass, why not choose the most efficient way of building it?

>far less autistic than lifting when it comes to conversations

What are you talking about? Is it apparently weird to talk about lifting in a conversation? It's like the opposite. All the Chads I know lift and talk about it. Talking about fitness is normie teir, in a good way. Miss me with that shit.

Or I'm not interpreting what you're saying correctly and I'm a dumbass. hurdur

>myötähäpeä

AS A YOGA INSTRUCTOR AND PHYSICAL THERAPIST I ADVISE AGAINST EVER DOING THIS. Just because you CAN flex in certain positions does not mean you SHOULD

I got you
Also, why limit yourself with calisthenics? Do both, or at the very least do weighted stuff, get a dipping belt do weighted pullups and dips.

>do I really have to prove my claims?
FTFY

If you're going to post examples of so called "big calisthenics guys", then make sure they actually do calisthenics and aren't roiding as well.

>playground
>with your shirt off
Is this a meme to get me put on the sex offender registry?

It's okay to impress normies but is not good enough to build a decent well rounded body.

kids stopped using playgrounds around the time they put ipads in the classrooms. They're basically abandoned calisthenic gyms.

>kids stopped using playgrounds

Are you an Amerifat? Because in Canada there are still kids in playgrounds and the police would be called if I started doing pullups on the monkeybars or something.

They focus on it because equipment is expensive and can't serve and entire post in one hour in the morning or be hauled to the field. Everyone actually excelling is lifting on their own time.

>make sure they actually do calisthenics
They do.

>aren't roiding as well
Some are, some aren't.

The fuck is this even about at this point?

what would happen if you did that? Would muscles go the wrong way or something?

>Because in Canada there are still kids in playgrounds and the police would be called if I started doing pullups on the monkeybars or something.

And so what? I live in Canada too and I use the jungle gyms and I smoke weed at them. Fuck off cops. (Never been arrested in my life)

>they do

No, they "partially" do, but only on top of the weight lifting they do to actually achieve their size.

>bf % + jawline + Goyfiend
>Mass and look like shit

natty must pick one

>partially
>all or almost all of their IG, FB and whatever else posts are about calisthenics
>they talk about calisthenics all the time
>one post about weights every now and then, usually about deadlifts or squats
Huh.

>inb4 - "I meant their size"
Yeah, I sure can imagine those guys that pop planches like candies treating the gym as more than a way to supplement their calisthenics.

>Is it worth it to do?
Yes
>I don't really see why it would be worse than lifting but I don't know that much.
It's not, as long as you're not a complete retard about it
>chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2010/01/gymless-training-say-what.html
>chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2015/07/you-dont-have-to-train-in-gym-to-be.html

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calisthenics is a meme

They are mainly functional, really good if you are into sports. Specially combat sports and gymnastics, as you want more strenght with less mass. But that's only if you progress by doing harder and harder exercises instead of just adding more reps.

But you build muscle harder and at a slower pace so it's pretty much frowned upon by the "leave humanity behind" body builders (or just body builders in general tbqh)

They literally talk about lifting weights on top of calisthenics. The fuck are you trying to prove by posting non-pure calisthenics guys as examples of what natty calisthenics does for you?

>the look on her face

Depends on your goals. If you want to impress closet homos on Veeky Forums then lift.

With calisthenics you'll geet much more awereness of your own body.

Faggots claming that calisthenics are boring are just people who can only lift weights but can't do shit with their bodies.

youtube.com/watch?v=uMDWAfenuvg

>doing a barbell movement every once in a while is going to nullify the meaning of doing calisthenics 99% of the time
>it also means that all the gains come from the weights, not calisthenics
>"muh purism"
Huh.