About Training

You can do calisthenic exercises even if you've never worked out before. The beauty of calisthenic movements is no matter your athletic ability, you can do a variation of them. When starting calisthenics for beginners, modifying movements is a common practice. If regular push-ups are too difficult; you can start on your knees, or inclined with a chair. If full bodyweight dips are too advanced, you can start with a modified chair dip at home.

You can do calisthenics training anywhere, anytime. Whether you're at the gym or doing an outdoor street workout in your cul-de-sac. Since you don't need expensive gym equipment to squat or do push-ups, this form of training is great for busy individuals with limited resources. When you need equipment, there's always a chair or playground readily available to act as a bench or pull-up station.

The cool thing about calisthenics is, once you understand basic movements and progressions, you can create whatever type of workout you want with these exercises. If your main goal is fat loss or leaning down, you can do just that! You can easily adjust the intensity of your workout, so you can achieve your fitness – regardless if it includes losing weight or building muscles. Both cardiovascular motions – getting your heart rate up into a “fat burning zone” – and strength training are awesome ways to burn calories and, once your glycogen stores are used up, body fat. A combination is best. Structures like Tabata and HIIT are perfect to compliment calisthenics, because these are quick, one after the other workouts where you can’t necessarily move from machine to machine (or worse, involve heavy free weights). It’s safe to go fast and hard with calisthenics exercises, so you can get improved physique fast. For fat loss, you’re looking to burn the most amount of calories in the least amount of time. This drains your glucose stores and starts to target your stored body fat (more on this later). The more fatigued you get, the more blood you get pumping, the more fat will be burned. Of course, this is coupled with a tremendous diet, but we’ll cover that in a few sections.