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Many of you have been back at your gym or are soon to get back to it.

Hopefully you tried some body weight training during lockdown!

Either way you can benefit greatly if you maintain some body weight/calisthenics training elements in your routine.

For example here I am doing dips with a weight vest. These are a much smarter better bang for your buck option compared to a common in gym option like the bench press for example. Just a few of the reasons why:

▪️You are activating more muscle groups, arguably achieving greater contraction in a safer manner and expending more energy doing so.

▪️You are getting better at a functional movement such as pushing your body up out of a pool as opposed to just getting better at laying down and pushing a bar up. (Took me a while to come to the realisation, but laying down or sitting down for exercise is a bit daft for able bodied people in my opinion)

▪️The vast majority of common in gym exercises are whats called open kinetic chain, where your center of mass is stationary and you move an object around you instead of your center of mass I.e a lat pull down machine. A closed kinetic chain exercise is where your center of mass is whats moving instead i.e a pull up, which again is so much more beneficial for many reasons.

Think about it, do you want to get better at using a machine in the gym? Or something that's applicable to real world situations like pulling your body weight up?

There are many more benefits to calisthenics training elements which I will cover in future!

𝙰𝙽𝚈 𝚀𝚄𝙴𝚂𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂 𝚆𝙷𝙰𝚃𝚂𝙾𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁 𝙹𝚄𝚂𝚃 𝙳𝚁𝙾𝙿 𝙼𝙴 𝙰 𝙼𝙴𝚂𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙴, 𝙾𝚁 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝙵𝚄𝚁𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁 𝚂𝚄𝙿𝙿𝙾𝚁𝚃 𝚂𝙴𝙰𝚁𝙲𝙷 𝙵𝙾𝚁 𝙼𝚈 𝙿𝚁𝙸𝚅𝙰𝚃𝙴 𝙼𝙴𝙼𝙱𝙴𝚁𝚂 𝙶𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙿 "𝙼𝙰𝙻𝙴𝙱𝙾𝙳𝚈𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝙶𝚄𝙸𝙳𝙴" 𝙾𝙽 𝙵𝙰𝙲𝙴𝙱𝙾𝙾𝙺 🙏

ACHIEVE GREATER RESULTS BY INCLUDING CALLISTHENICS TRAINING IN YOUR ROUTINE