Unconventional Athletes Issue 9
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Adding calisthenics to your training routines is good<br />
for anyone. It helps to build strength using your<br />
body’s natural movement.<br />
clavicle would shoot out the top of<br />
my shoulder and cause a lot of pain.<br />
So that’s when I turned to bodyweight<br />
movements!<br />
What were the first bodyweight<br />
exercises you did?<br />
I started doing push-ups on my knees<br />
which eventually gave me strength<br />
to start doing them on my feet. After<br />
I gained the strength back and my<br />
shoulder was improving, I started<br />
to fall in love with bodyweight<br />
training (calisthenics), so I got on<br />
YouTube and did my research about<br />
calisthenics and certain movements.<br />
Over-time while working out and<br />
building strength, I started to have<br />
fun with it and just kind of started<br />
making up my own movements,<br />
tricks and routines. Calisthenics<br />
changed me a lot as a person, not<br />
just in my physical appearance, but<br />
it also helped me appreciate things<br />
in my life more, and made me love<br />
myself again. It also taught me to<br />
always be respectful to others on<br />
their fitness journey!<br />
For those people who slave away<br />
in the gym, without achieving their<br />
goals and who are rigid with their<br />
training, please explain how adding<br />
calisthenics could aid them in this<br />
journey.<br />
Adding calisthenics to your training<br />
routines is good for anyone. It helps<br />
to build strength using your body’s<br />
natural movement and helps more<br />
muscle groups to fire and work<br />
together. This allows for more allround<br />
strength and stability, and<br />
it can strengthen inner connective<br />
tissue along with muscles, ligaments<br />
and tendons, enabling them to take<br />
on heavier loads.<br />
Calisthenics help you become more<br />
efficient in movements throughout life,<br />
so you’re not struggling at work, playing<br />
with your kids or just doing everyday<br />
activities of your own. Calisthenics<br />
movements help the body become<br />
more agile, similar to when you were<br />
a child. This gives you the feeling of<br />
being brought back to your youth.<br />
What are the most impressive feats<br />
that you have achieved…what are you<br />
most proud of?<br />
Well the first thing that I am very<br />
proud of was gaining my inner will to<br />
get up every day and put in the hard<br />
work to lose 120 pounds, and getting<br />
to just 4% body fat! I went from 285<br />
pounds to 165 pounds, starting from<br />
back in 2010 and made nothing but<br />
solid gains since then, also being<br />
able to keep a body fat percentage<br />
between 4% and 9% this whole time.<br />
<strong>Issue</strong> 09 - Volume 1 | 2016 Page 37
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