What Is Calisthenics and How Can It Be Used For Bodybuilding

Chances are you have heard about calisthenics but do you know exactly what it is?

 

 At its basic, calisthenics involves using the weight of your own body during workouts. With your own weight and the help of gravity, you should be able to get a complete workout without the need for weights, benches, and dumbbells.

Contrary to popular belief, calisthenics is very versatile and, therefore, effective in helping grow, build, and strengthen your muscles. All that with nothing but your weight. So long as you have the will to sweat it out and the discipline to be consistent, you should be able to develop the chiseled body you desire.

 

The following are some of the things you need to do to effectively use calisthenics as a bodybuilding workout:

  

The Three Basic Movements

 

Calisthenics involves three basic movements in the name of pull-ups, push-ups, and squats. No matter what variation of these three you do, you cannot build your muscle mass without them. Although you can start small, it is advisable that you increase the reps or change to tougher variations of the exercises to keep benefiting from them as the years go by.

If you have been workout out on double limbs, try doing it on single limbs. Think in terms of one-arm pull-ups, one-legged squats, and one-arm push-ups. The idea is to increase the amount of resistance every time your body seems to be adapting to the current routines. Always make sure that the overload is increased progressively.

 

Leverage Overload

It is not good to introduce harder variations of calisthenics in a single swoop. If anything, it is unrealistic to do one-arm pull-ups, one-arm push-ups, and pistol squats within the first few months. You may start by doing variations of the exercises that create less resistance on one side and more of it on the other. After gaining enough strength, the herder variations would be easier to do.

Before you start doing one-arm push-ups, why don’t you start with their incline variants? In the same vein, start by doing 20 push-ups and then increase them progressively as you grow stronger. Within a few months or years, you will be able to one-arm push-ups without much of a hassle.

 

Sets and Repetitions

 Are you looking for to build your muscle mass using calisthenics? All you have to do is use the basic workouts like the ones discussed above. Find variations of the workouts which will make you run out of energy after just about 10 to 15 repetitions. Make sure you do between 3 and 4 sets of every type of exercise. For a full-body workout, try two squatting, pulling, and pushing movements. If you hope to improve your body mass and strength, you must stick to the program. Eat a healthy diet and have enough sleep and you will never go  wrong.

 

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