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Bodyweight training exercises are easier when lean. Bulking with calisthenics is a common dilemma people face. To efficiently build muscle, more calories are necessary to gain mass. However, getting too heavy can make training harder so a balance needs to be established.
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Hey Daniel, thanks for the video. I wanted to follow up and ask a few questions. I like to weight train for 8-12 weeks & then do 8-12 weeks of calisthenics mostly because I like to keep things fresh and I’m mostly training to be a good over all athlete. I’m not too sure if you would classify my routine as in limbo & I mostly do what I do because I see that you are also well rounded and perform solely body weight and then also add weighted calisthenics too. Would you be able to better elaborate on this point as well as provide more context around your training / goals. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing all your content!
"bigger boys, and bigger girls" thx for including the 3 women in the world who do weighted calis
Lol fr, wish calisthenics was more popular.
u being one of em?
tryna find me one fr
@@destroycuhfr bro😢
@@moneymakinmitch8130 lmfao
That’s basically me. Indecisive as fuck in terms of what I want
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@@skither4305 Jesus was the best calisthenics athlete, he held an iron cross for 6 hours.
@@yewtewbstew547 Isnt that lifting
@@nickjunior9862he’s referring to the move Iron Cross which is performed on gymnastic rings
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that's exactly it. part of me wants to bulk up and build muscle but the other parts wants to be athletic and do all that crazy shit
You can be athletic and still be building muscle and getting stronger, just don’t be so big that you can’t even wipe your own ass because you lack mobility in all your joints.
If you want to build big muscles just do bodybuilder style training
You can do both actually, search up andrea larosa, he is big, and very athletic at the same time
First time someone called me a bigger boy 🤣
Basically, you should stay lean if you want to maintain certain skills if and only if that's the type of calisthenics you train. However, you can be bulky and train better with weighted calisthenics at the cost of performing less in skills training.
@@fastcars514Ian barseagle isn’t that great at skills. He can do a couple but overall he’s more of a sets and reps/streetlifter. He’s still a beast though I mean guys over 200 lbs of solid lean muscle
If being bulky can't do athletic movements, then is bulking only for asthetics?
I can't decide.. I want it all 😭
ull be there, insyaa Allah but in YEARS OF CONSISTENCY
I personally advocate balance 💪🏼
You have to also be aware of your genetics. If it’s easier for you to gain muscle, if it’s easy for you to eat significant amount of quality food, then go for it! If it’s easier for you to stay lean, eat in a calorie deficit and still do your sessions, to that! You will have way better results if you’re aware of your body preferences
same thing to be noticed if we want to reach in a certain level of dynamic/ static skills is to know what is your 'limit' of the 'genetic' has
Nah, I know from the start that I wanted to be athletic! Just entered month 2, so we'll learn more and more.
Personally, I believe that you should include multiple disciplines in your training but still have your one goal in mind. For example, if you were really adamant about achieving a skill, say front lever for example, you could periodize. Have a meso or two dedicated to building up the required muscle mass with weighted pullups or other gym exercises (don't need to stay only cali, we wanna be strong, and we should take advantage of everything we have access to) so that it doesn't become a bottleneck in your training and eat at a surplus to efficiently build muscle. Then in another meso for skill/strength you could work specific front lever progressions, and as you wont have to worry about building more mass in your lats, (since you already did that in your hypertrophy meso), you will progress quick. Depending on whether you lean bulked or ate at a larger surplus, you could either cut or recomp. Throw in some conditioning work in your hypertrophy mesos, and you have a much lower risk of injury when training skills, and you are more likely to progress them. And you get to dip your foot in every part, easy as pie!
Perfectly said. I just figured what skills I want to achieve and which bodyparts I want to grow, what musces and joints I want to strengthen, and adjusted my training accordingly: sets, reps, moves, weights, rest periods, frequency, TUT, diet, etc.
If you want to appear bigger, and be stronger, but you still want that aesthetic lean look, and you want to be able to handle your body weight like a master. Then try bulking for 3 years, and in that time work on weighted calisthenics, sets, reps, stuff like that. Then go on a cut to lose that fat you built up, work extra on your calisthenics skills and movements in the last year of the bulk, and when you cut, you will be able to handle your body weight much more.
Slow bulk with dips and chins was such a good way of progressive overload (basically weighted callisthenics), felt very natural
Awesome Collab. Alex and FAQs.
There are three mutually exclusive groups *proceeds to showcase all himself*
That’s what mastery looks like! You’ve got to choose a path for a long enough time to see the results, but it doesn’t matter what path you take, you’ve got to stick with it for long enough to be changed by it
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first thunder thighs, then lightning with the jump rope. looking GREAT cruz! glad your elbow's feeling better im sick myself, so im taking this week off. gonna come back stronger
thank you ! great content as always !!
Factsss, I can’t ever choose what I wanna do tbh..
What does this mean in detail? If I want to be lean, not bulk, which way is the way to go? What should I definitely do? What should I definitely avoid doing? Or is a mix of all mentioned fine, as long as f.e. "Reps and sets make 80% of my training and I avoid weights at all?"
It should be dependent on your goals If your goal is skills it will benefit you to be light and lean If your goal is build muscle with calisthenics then no way around it you have to add weight and be in a surplus but be deliberate and dont do bulk like a gym bro you should still stay relatively lean if calisthenics is your main
To keep things simple, do the same exercises you would do for either bulk or cut but change the caloric intake to what you want to do. From experience, focus a lot on the protein intake and make sure you're getting the correct amount. 0.80g/lb of body weight is ideal.
You don't need to avoid any excercises if your goal is to stay lean. No matter how you train, it won't make you fat. Pick whatever training you like and eat at a calorie equilibrium (or if you're a bit chubby, eat at a calorie deficit until you reach your goal weight). Dan's point was that if you're bulking, you probably won't gain much from skill training (since you probably won't be able to do skills while you're fat anyway) and might do best if you stick with weighted calisthenics, since that has the best option to increase resistance in a very precise way for progressive overload. So while bulking limits what training options you have while giving you more freedom in your diet, cutting makes your diet more restrictive, but doesn't limit how you can train as long as it burns calories.
What I found is that when you do calithtenics with added weight then the muscle memory makes you spend more energy later when you want to do many reps so weighted calithtenics reduces rep range
Bulking through Bodyweight calisthenics and street lifting gives you unrivaled progress. If you weigh more but the reps stay the same, that’s progressive overload.
Thx for the pointer!
I just love staying lean and athletic. That’s about it
Thank you a lot! Great answer.
I saw the clip of him doing a pistol squat, and I’ve never been able to do one before, but I tried it just cause, and I actually did it 🥹
And with bw movemte there's so many different types sub disaplines just with just different skill type like core compression, handstand work, stability, balance mobility. This video is exactly why I keep my routine simple and do the same thing each 2nd day so I get use to same thing and progress at the hardest skil and to progress to harder variations
Great 👍🏻 video bro! ❤
He just effortlessly does one arm pullups!
Either way, for me the struggle is, to get the food in. It's hard to be consistent with food intake, although your body says 'no'. But I hang in there, maybe my body flips a switch along the way.
Great advice
Sets and reps + weight calisthenics, that's my way to go... Keep the basics and improve in weight and reps numbers
Life questions answered!
I want to end up somewhere in between, but that might change as I get more experience with it. I just ordered rings and plan to do use them on non gym days, and weights on gym days
We go GYM😁💪🏻
That's the problem lol, I wanna be good at everything 😂😂
Calisthenics is a super cool form of exercising, I'm currently a beginner tho I'm training to become like these professionals doing handstands and shit
Where is the intro in the end of video !!!
Diamond Ott be like: Why not all
I just wish I knew what would work for the silly thing in my mind of "being able to clime/vault/run/etc in case of needing to run/chase down an alien like Will Smith in Men in Black. :) Basically, the way I see it, if I can keep truly functional strength - the ability to carry buckets of water and heavy boxes, the ability to climb/vault things, the ability to catch myself or roll from falls, the ability to jog/run without being terribly out of breath - then this means I'll age better. Being a rural volunteer first responder, it also is nice being able to drag water hoses or use tools for digging firelines. Functional, practical strength building things...
I do weighted planches to get stronger same with pull up and dips, also I do training for front lever I can do 2 muscle ups in a row with 10lb lb my pocket
I wanna be good at all types of these exercises ngl
Could you do a breakdown of eating for lean bodyweight calisthenics and then a breakdown for bulking with weighted calisthenics?
I just wanna look like you man
I compete in weighted calisthenics, im fairly lean but not as lean as the bodyweight guys. I only cut when i need to make weight.
When I started my goal was to do muscle up reps, now I've done it my goal is to achieve the strength to do 90 degree push ups
I agree completely but I do believe in training the body different seasons , just because I’m lifting hardcore weights and tryna PR one season doesn’t mean I won’t be picking up swimming the next season or running the season after that . Or playing basketball the season after that .I believe in shocking the body and nervous system with adequate amount of food and sleep ratio not only helps the body but honestly its fun and being athlete doesn’t mean in one dimensional or specific sport . Thats the word athlete was created but I agree with the focusing specifically on any one thing can yield results faster then focusing on multiple things at once in the short term . Idk about long term tho …
I like weighted callisthenics but I still wanna be lean
You can do both
I'm very skinny (1.80m for 62 kg, about 6ft don't know how many lbs) and I'm currently doing weighted calisthenics in order to gain some mass, and I can tell you I'm still lean af but I'm getting a bit wider, so don't be afraid to explode from one day to another if you start doing weighted stuff
@@tchem I’m complete opposite I’m 5.9 75 kg and trying to stay lean, I tend to gain muscle/fat easily but staying lean is difficult i love eating too much lol
@@ViralVibes61122 from what I've seen, best way to avoid getting fat is staying consistent with cardio, even 3 sets of 1 minute jumping the rope before every workout Man I wish I could gain mass so easily, feels like my body burns instantly whatever I eat
@@tchemI'm also on that range 1.80m 63-65kg I'm training to "perfect" the technique and adding reps, to me is hard to gain weight bro, and I fucking eat.
I’d rather get 0.1 lbs pure muscle per month instead of bulking with FAT. My 10years+ journey in the gym and calisthenics taught me how to get better with sustainability, not bigger. Also with good diets that comes into my habit made me healthy and without major injuries.
At 47, I don’t care about being big. Just want to maintain fitness into my 50’s and beyond. Get myself to 10 “bar to chest” pull-ups, and I’ll be happy just maintaining that capability. Don’t need the extra weight personally. Just do high volume body weight only.
I can't stand having excess bodyfat on me. It drives me insane. I have been more strict with my diet especially since I started getting more into calisthenics other than doing your basic muscle-up / dip / pull-ups. Basically not cheating as much as I kind of started to but also smoking weed didn't help, I still do but contain myself and it's not that hard to stay away from junk food. Just the occassional cheat every so often.
Deciding what i want you say? ….Let me say it with the words of Queen.. i want it all! And i want it now! 🤣🤣💪
honestly, bulking on callisthenics is silly, your skills disappear day after day, it feels like you are retrogressing and it is in a way retrogressing if you consider yourself a pure callisthenics athlete as opposed to an athlete that incorporates callisthenics into their program... just switch to weights during the bulking phase, preferably during the colder months and then back to callisthenics once you feel like you are taking the bulk too far.
I am doing exactly the same thing.
Well some people don’t care about skill others care about gaining muscle and getting muscular/lean
@@ViralVibes61122 Yah, I don't give a rat's ass about skills, I just prefer bodyweight training to gym.
No it doesn't i do bulking with calisthenics
Bro some of us don't have the privilege of having the access to gym or having all sorts of weight lifting equipment. Our only way to build muscle is calisthenics so we don't care much about skills.
I say the hardest part is the amount of food you gotta buy
Sometimes after doing one thing I wanna try a little of other thing. I don’t see that as a problem.
I am doing bodyweight but i am also bulking right now. From 72 to 85kg (currently at 75 kg), i know i am supposed to be leaner but i prefer that once i am at that point i will just try to adapt to the new weight slowly.
Calisthenics are so hard for me to do even for a sec. I don't know why is this
It's incredibly hard putting on fat with Calisthenics(if you eat at a small calorie surplus) compound movements burn so much calories. I've been on a calorie surplus myself for 4 months and I've barely gained any body fat
Train less than but harder. Workout for 30 min max and almost destroy yourself in that time. You can even train less min but put in the work and little rest. Less exercise as well and not much reps
How many times per week? @@Bojan12
I always tell people to try to remain right on their calorie mark. If youre in a ridiculous surplus youre going to gain too much weight. Too much of a deficit and youll wont gain any muscle. Eat a shit ton of protein and i would say stay in a very slight deficit. Thats the cool thing about calisthenics though, there no such thing as a strict diet.
You can use calisthenics for bodybuilding. Train the same way you would with weight. Time under tension
I really want to do skill building, and weighted calisthenics (to build strength - not necessarily size) how can i program my workouts to get more strength to directly help me with skills?
I WANT IT ALL
Bro eating with the lid on smh
I wonder if there’s a way to target the teres major I’ve been dealing with right shoulder blade numbness and honestly can never overload my teres muscle on the lat pulldown or pullups
Maybe try high rep inverted rows and try to keep your chest forward?
I reckon a dirty bulk with calisthenics would be interesting. Progressive overload by weight gain.
eh i think if your goal is to do a lot of body weight stuff, then bulking and continuing to lift using just bodyweight exercises followed by a cut, isn't such a bad idea. i'm in the middle of a bulk with this in mind and we'll see if following my cut i'm more capable than i was prior to my bulk.
Thing is if you bulk with calisthenics then you'll maybe lose some reps since your bodyweight is increasing... but that also means you're lifting more weight, and that will make you stronger. So it kinda balances out lol.
Well could someone define freestyle? I mean I’m doing some basic calisthenics with bodyweight like push-ups and pull-ups but how does it differ from strength skills
So can i lean bulk and do body-weight calisthenics and get big and leaner.
People who are great at bodyweight exercises are usually short/have short limbs. You can be very lean as a tall person, but the shorter people (not leaner) will be better at the bodyweight exercises.
Someone is copping hard lol. Just say you're lazy. Your comment is pointless
So what are his goals? Because he's really good at the body weight stuff but also good at the weighted stuff
Hes only good at them because he mastered them along time ago.
link to podcast pls
How weird. I’ve been experiencing a sense of indecisiveness regarding my own fitness journey. A lot, actually.
Is it better to progress in weighted pull-ups or chin ups?
Pullups, since it works back more, and translates more to moves like muscleup and front lever. You can do both if you really want.
can you get big + strength at the same time with calisthenics?
Yes especially weighted
Is bulking important in calisthenics?
im tryna be the Jack Of All Trades
streetlifting for me 👍💪
Daniel is kind of in a limbo though, no?
Nah hes master status he trains gravity
Not even close hes past that and can do them all. Because he did them all separately first.
Each time I bulk, i feel sluggish, weak, heavy, tired, dirty, apathy, and want to stop training. Yeah but that is just me.
You're probably dirty bulking. Shouldn't be happening with clean bulk, in fact if your body fat is ideal (10-12%), you should feel even more energetic.
you forgot isometrics
Dude is bro
You can't always perform at your best, right? To reach your best, you need to train a lot So Why don't add some creatine to build more strength where you need it becoming a bit heavier, than took it off getting lean conserving the strength with consistency to perform at your best?
Limbo... gd reference?
Is that you kuroky?
i want 90 kg planche for 10+ seconds😊
i see. i have been training lever while getting jack with cali weights. thank uu
So what do you do? I want to be like you.
I thought he said balding with calisthenics...
what actually is bulking calisthenics?
This is bad advice. Bulk when you want to develop strength, lean out when you want to maximize your performance in bodyweight stuff. You can't get strength gains (well you can but it's not efficient) when you're super lean (below 12-15% bodyfat). Or you can't get strength gains when you're cutting (you can but it's not efficient). But he is right - have a system for doing what you do - and have a clear set of goals you're working towards.
always bulk tf
Yea its like extra weighted calisthenics
And rest!!
That was not well said. That was very vague
But that guy doesn't know how to overhead press...
Is this the answer to all the stupid details we are overthinking? Imho yap
I didn't wanna heat him say what he said. But I know it's true. Hybrid for me I guess
why not be good at all the sub disciplines?
Nah bro every single calisthenics "athlete" I've met is no bigger that 5'9 160 this type of exercise is only either for beginners that dont yet have a gym membership or guys that have smaller build and cant really do bodybuilding
Profound
first
You want a trophy?
@@FrizzDaDrizz nah I am good