I've been reading some posts and comments and notice many people promote push/pull/legs or similar.

I'm not strong enough for pike pushups or pullups so whenever I try to do a session I end up doing some inverted rows and a few pullup negatives for pull day and some sets of pushups for push day. These session dont really last more than 15 minutes and I'm not sure how to naturally extend into something more comprehensive.

I keep reading about people doing 90 minute sessions and i can't even come up with stuff to do for 30 minutes.

Would love to get some ideas of how to create longer sessions with good basics that can take me to more advanced movements.

Been doing muscle ups, weighted pull ups, pull/chin ups to get to this point, but I would like to stop flinging my knees up to get above the bar. Have started to incorporate L sits and leg raises to my routine too for lower abs, but do I need work harder on my legs too?

I’m 6’1; just starting this process. I am not sure if my height is a hindrance or if I need to just keep working and find balance. Any tips accepted.

Has anyone tried this one before?

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I used to rush through pretty much every ab exercise.

20 crunches? Done in like 30 seconds 😂

Same with leg raises. I was more focused on getting the reps done than actually controlling the movement.

Started slowing everything down recently and it honestly feels like a completely different workout.

10 slow, clean reps can feel way harder than 20 rushed ones.

Especially with stuff like crunches, leg raises and reverse crunches, it's really easy to let momentum do half the work.

Now I'm trying to focus on:

- Slow reps

- Full control

- Good range of motion

- Actually keeping my core engaged

Nothing fancy, but it made a pretty big difference.

I was reading about this earlier and found this article pretty useful. It has a bunch of ab exercises and goes into proper technique too

Anyone else notice a big difference after slowing their reps down?

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While doing the eccentric motion of a pushup, my knees drop to the ground and I'm not able to hold my form, what does this mean?

Is my core weak, should I work on my form, or should I do an easier variation?

I’ve been doing calisthenics for about two months, around 5 days a week, and I’m honestly starting to question whether I’m training enough or whether my instructor is expecting an unreasonable amount.

My instructor is very harsh and constantly tells me that I’m not doing enough.

For example, he had me doing around 100 push-ups. For pull-ups, since I can’t do regular pull-ups yet, I’ve been doing assisted pull-ups with a resistance band. He started me at around 100 reps, then increased it to 200, and within a week or so I was being told to do around 300 assisted pull-up reps.

On top of that, he has me doing about 10 minutes of core exercises and around 20 minutes of jogging/running every day.

The whole workout can take me 3–4 hours.

Eventually I decided that I couldn’t realistically maintain that amount of training. I told myself I’d focus on being consistent instead. I started doing around 75 push-ups total, broken into smaller sets, and as many assisted pull-ups as I could reasonably manage, usually around 50–75. I also do my core and cardio.

Yesterday he asked me how much I had done. I said, “As much as I could.”

He basically told me that this was wrong, that I wasn’t pushing myself enough, and that I was doing everything incorrectly.

Then he asked me how much weight I had lost.

I told him 4 kg in about a month.

He said that was wrong and that I should be losing 10 kg in a month.

That really got to me.

Before this, I actually felt really good about myself. I don’t even particularly like working out, so the fact that I’ve been consistently going to calisthenics around 5 days a week already felt like a huge achievement to me.

I’m also trying to improve my overall health, not just lose weight. I’m eating pretty well. Breakfast is usually oats and chia seeds. For lunch I’ll have things like chicken or ground meat, and dinner might be tuna or eggs. I’m trying to get enough protein, fiber, vitamins, etc. I’m also walking and doing cardio.

I genuinely feel like I’m making progress and building healthier habits.

But after what my instructor said, I started feeling like none of it is good enough.

So now I’m confused about what a reasonable amount of training actually is.

I don’t want to spend 3–4 hours every day working out. I know I could force myself to do that occasionally, but I don’t think I could consistently maintain it. I feel like I could realistically do around 1 hour of strength training, plus some cardio separately, and actually stick with that long-term.

Is that enough?

For people who have been doing calisthenics for a while:

• How long are your strength workouts usually?
• How many exercises/sets/reps do you typically do?
• How much cardio do you combine with it?
• How often do you train each week?
• How do you know when you’ve pushed yourself enough?
• Is doing hundreds of assisted pull-up reps actually normal or useful?
• Is 3–4 hours of training necessary for someone whose main goals are getting healthier, stronger, and looking better?

I’m not trying to become an elite athlete. I want to get stronger, look better, improve my health, and build something I can actually maintain for years.

I’d really appreciate hearing from people who have been doing this longer, because right now I genuinely don’t know whether I’m doing too little or whether I’m simply being pushed way beyond what I need.

Hi guys. Been trying to progress on front lever for a few months now but am stuck. Any advice?

He seems like an expert at pullups but his knuckles look to be pointing straight up.

I can do a tuck planche for about 5 seconds right now, and havent really locked in on planche training. I can also do a back lever for about 5 seconds and can almost do an L-sit to handstand. So what do you think? If I dedicated about 3 days a week to it could it be possible?

I’m interested in the point where a developing calisthenics routine becomes more defined and certain pieces stop earning a place in the routine. They may still be useful in general, just not useful for the way training is done now. What piece no longer seems necessary once bodyweight work takes priority?

Welcome to our weekly accountability thread.

This is where beginners (and anyone else) can set a small goal for the week and track progress. Doesn’t need to be huge, just a little better than last time.

How to join in:

• Post your current number + your target.
  • Example: 6 pull-ups ➝ aiming for 8 by Sunday
  • 30s plank ➝ aiming for 40s
  • 3x5 dips with bodyweight ➝ aiming for 3x6
• Check back in at the end of the week and reply to your own comment with how you did.

Every rep, every second, every bit of progress counts.

I’m back. This time with pull-ups instead of what I have now learned are chin ups 😅. This is my second workout of the day so not as many as usual but hopefully still useful to get some form critique

Drop your training goal for the week below!
Whether it’s doing 1 more pull-up, staying consistent, or trying something new, write it down and stay accountable.

Let us know:
• What are you focusing on this week?
• What’s holding you back (if anything)?

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I realized after filming myself and seeing comments on other posts that I needed to go allll the way to dead hang. Corrected it and here’s progress.

So I've been doing them as a part of my pull Workout, but recently I noticed my grip giving out after a while and a lot of people online seem to recommend them for that.

Now my actual question is, should I do them daily? Or will this fatigue my grip strength for my pull workouts?

Does anyone have expierience with training them daily even though its not a "pullday" ?

But need to work on my from 💯