In this one I share the style of training I've been doing for over two years now.
You might be shocked at how minimal it actually is, and wonder if it is even enough.
Our culture is obsessed with MORE. But can we still get the results we want with less?
After years of studying and practicing different body building methodologies, I've dialed in to what I believe to be the essential movements for a minimalist athlete.
You can always add more depending on your goals, but I have been training this way for over two years and I continue to make progress.
The simple fact is that muscle and strength is gained by progressively overloading the muscle fiber to trigger new growth, and we do that with this primary compound movements.
In the next video I'll go a little deeper into answering the question "Is this really enough?"
The workout:
Monday: Pull-up variant 3 sets of 10
Wednesday: Squat variant 3 sets of 10
Friday: Push-up variant 3 sets of 10
What's a variant?
This is called Progressive Calisthenics because we do a type of movement that our body can handle and then progressively get more advanced to continue overloading the muscle.
For example, a beginner variant of the push-up is the "Wall push-up". Wall push-ups are FAR easier than a regular push-up and you should only do that if you have difficulty doing a regular push-up. Eventually you will develop the strength to do a regular push-up and you can move on to that. I currently can do about 5 one-arm push-ups. It will be probably be a very long time before I can do 3 sets of 10, but that's the point, it's a slow journey of gradual growth.
Start with a movement you can do several repetitions with and then try to do 3 sets of 10 repetitions with good strong form. Once you achieve that, be proud, cheer for yourself, celebrate, and then move on to a slightly more difficult variant.
Al Kavadlo's channel for finding progressions and tips (tip: search "Al Kavadlo Squat
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