Calisthenics Tip Day 17 🏋️

Don't fall for the "hypetrophy" trap of calisthenics

You started to learn skills and huge strength with weighted

Yet 1/3 of your sets are isolation

The stretch and isolations MIGHT add 5-10% percent more gains if and only if everything else is locked in

How do I know?

I did it

I watched 10s of hours of Bodybuilding science to try and implement it to calisthenics

Yet didn't know why I couldn't muscle up when I could do 18 pull ups

You HAVE to train specific to your goal

muscle ups? explosive pull ups

handstand push up? train handstand not huge stretch incline dumbell bench...

OK but how?

Make your workout split based on movements not body parts e.g. pull up and dip day
about 60-70% of your sets should be the main exercise or a modification of it e.g. pull ups and top hold pull ups
Base your training around the goal, your isolations can sometimes be for aesthetics but should mostly be purposeful e.g. tricep pushdown instead of tricep overhead because it's more specific to the main movement

-Orfeas Onasis

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