Using Bodyweight Training To Build Muscle & Strength

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[kelvinjohnson]

Dips and pullups: phenomenal in building muscle

[sman]

I love it when these guys pump my mind

[bryceblalock]

Get good at pullups? Try wide grip and muscle ups. Good at pushups? Try clapping pushups or better yet handstand pushups. Dips? Do rings? Squats? Try pistol squats

[therealist]

Pushups build your triceps, back and core muscles as well as your chest...but bench pressing only works your chest and triceps. PUSHUPS CAN BE DONE ANYWHERE AT ANYTIME, BUT BENCH PRESSING REQUIRES A DESIGNATED PLACE WITH THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT.

[mrproblemchildable]

Pull ups are still one of the best and challenging movements 💪🏾I luv weights and calisthenics

[guydelusignan]

The problem with dips and pull ups is, if you're heavy (eg. 200+ pounds) its extremely hard to go past 3 reps.

[The_Fit_ness_monster]

Rings! Rings!Rings!Rings! I can’t say it enough, when you get to 50 reps on any body weight movement start adding weight and complexity.

[shahriarkabir]

Why you guys are not coming to YouTube together anymore? I miss watching your video’s man.

[bendodd]

Theres a study i remember seeing that you get the same power and strength gains from slow controlled push ups that you do from heavy bench press

To make any excercise harder you can add more reps, do reps alot slower, add pauses or change you body angle
Lots of ways to progress

But you will have far less chance of injury from bodg weight and it improves your core, your stability, your joint health and propeioception alot more than liftinf weights

If you need evidence of body weight training benefits look at the roman soldiers or spartan warriors

[ohplezz]

Years ago I worked in a state prison in its special housing unit. The men there had no access to any equipment whatsoever. No bars, nothing. All they did was calisthenics in their cells every day yet they were very, very strong. Don’t let anyone tell you basic calisthenics cannot build a lot of muscle.

[KnuckleHead]

I’m doing body weight training right now with my girlfriend. Especially since she is just starting out and I’ve had a long lay off from training so body weight training is great to start with to build up strength etc. cant wait to start hitting the weights again though 💪🏻

[sindilacion]

When i played football in highschool everytime christmas break came i used to do like 200-300 push-ups everyday. Cameback from break so much stronger than when I left everytime

[trevorvarney]

Press up, dip, pullup, pistol sguat, bulgarian split squat. There are many variations of these exercises that will beat weights everytime. Don't forget yoga for a real strength workout

[ffhackergaming]

I found out the hard way that you can't outtrain a bad diet. As soon as I started following the Agoge Diet, I have noticed awesome muscle growth.

[VpKing]

Body weigth builds pure strenght and are better for your joints while going to the gym is more for getting bigger muscles

[jasonwelsh]

Direct challenge to the guy in the grey hat: let's both post a video of doing a pistol squat, pull up (strict form, chest to bar), and dip (strict form, pause at bottom) pyramid circuit from 1-20 where 1 is a pistol and pull up and for each those you do 2 dips. Then talk to me about needing to intensify the basics.

I will put a thousand dollar bet you cannot do it and I can.

[CupofJoe]

HI! I've been working out for the past 5 months at home with simple movements like pushups, squats, pullups, etc. I have built up the strength/endurance to rep 100 squats for 4 sets as a normal amount in my workouts! Does doing any more reps increase muscle gain? Or is it simply only endurance gain beyond this? Would love to hear your thoughts about the reasons to go further and beyond! Or to cut back on the reps. Love the talk 👌

[rheaalmonte]

I got my diet plan from Agoge Diet and lost 2kg in just 10 days. So far, so good. Can't wait to see numbers on scale after 20 more days. I am so excited about this.

[bjiffy]

Bodyweight dips and chins will only get you so far. After getting 4x20 dips and a set or 3 of 15-20 pullups then add weight. The reason for such a high number ...you want to master moving your body thru space then you can add weight and linear progress 2x week then if you stall then have a heavy day and a light day.

[Cnote]

Do 1, 000 Reps of each exercise, that’ll make it hard. Or start trying gymnastic ring exercises.