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An exclusively calisthenics/bodyweight exercise regimen
05-18-2012, 05:46 PM
I'm currently doing Rushfit, which is an MMA style at home training program. It's lots of body weight exercises with some light dumbbell work. With that said the workouts are no joke. I'm in pretty good shape, grapple 3-4 times a week, lift, and I had trouble with some of them.
I'm a few weeks in and I feel great. It's not getting my muscles much bigger, but for overall conditioning, strength/endurance, and to compliment my training it's awesome.
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An exclusively calisthenics/bodyweight exercise regimen
05-19-2012, 08:32 AM
Currently doing mostly bodyweight - pistols, chinups and various hard types of pushup (1-handed assisted, or pseudo-planche).
Finding them good for steady increase in strength, and the upper body are as good for size as the weights equivalents. The key is to keep intensity high and stay in a muscle/strength rep range, obviously. Easily done with pushups via hand position, for chinups ill have to add weight. Im doing them at the gym so thats no problem. HOWEVER the pistols are not good for leg size or general overall raw muscle/"hard fucker" -ness. For that you need squat and/or deadlifts IMO
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An exclusively calisthenics/bodyweight exercise regimen
05-19-2012, 01:09 PM
Personal favorite home-gym exercise:
Quad-blasters. Go to the bottom of a flight of stairs, squat to below parallel, then blast up and forwards as far as you can go. 30-50 consecutive reps will leave your legs toast!
A year from now you'll wish you started today