Calisthenics and strength?

taylorblade

Why can't bodyweight training make you strong? Like why cant it make you strong to lift people or things? Why is weight lifting the only option to getting bulk mass and monster strength? Please someone explain this to me thank you!

usmcmp

You can, but it takes progressive overload. Meaning once you can do tons of push ups you need to find a way to make them more challenging. Once you can do a bunch of pull ups you need to find a way to make them more challenging.

Lifting people and things is still weight lifting, not body weight. Deadlifting a car is still a deadlift.

rybo

BW training can make you very strong. It's just that most people don't know how to apply progressive difficulty to the movements

Cherimoose

taylorblade wrote: »

Why can't bodyweight training make you strong? Like why cant it make you strong to lift people or things?

There's a skill component to lifting things. Multiple muscle groups need to coordinate together to produce accurate movement (just like in sports). That takes practice. Bodyweight training can certainly train the muscle groups involved, but it doesn't fully simulate the way the muscle groups work together when lifting, carrying, pushing, etc. To get really good at doing those things, you have to practice them. Makes sense?

For mass, it doesn't matter which mode you choose, since it's about work, not skill. I'd actually choose machines for mass since they can work the target muscles harder.

Azdak

That was quick.

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rileysowner

It can. Lifting weights is easier for people to understand how to work progression into it. Choose what you like.