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The godly glory of the one arm push-up
I placed my hand on a weighing instrument today while doing one arm push-ups today. The weight on the pushing arm, at my total weight of ~160 lbs , is about 50 kg. This means that a one arm push-up nearly equals an absolute bad ass level of dumbell chest press. Nearly? Well - a bit of work is done by your abs in a OAP, so you don't move those full 50 kg with just chest, triceps and shoulders. Nevertheless - I think that this shows that body resistance training can get you much further than often claimed. An individual capable of a one arm CHIN up is basically doing "curls" with his/her FULL body weight. On one working arm. Imagine what happens to the bicep and lats of this individual. See, it's true. Building muscle and strenght is a piece of cake in a gym compaired to doing it with your bodyweight. And arguably, you will get somewhat bigger gains with weights. This is probably because the truly effective bodyweight excercises are gymnastic masterpieces that the fewest humans will EVER attain. Sure, calisthenics will most likely not give you an elite lifter's physique. But most people won't attain those levels of muscular development with weights EITHER. And it is easy to say that calisthenics does not build reasonable amounts of muscle mass if you never tried. I mean, how many individuals can do all the one-limb bodyweight moves with proper form? Now substract those who train weights parallely (Greg O'Gallhager... Hi, you rock btw.) and think about those who built up these bodyweight master skills without the help of weightlifting. Are there any? Only someone who achieved this can tell you how much muscle can really be built with straight calisthenics. And I'm here to find out.
The godly glory of the one arm push-up
I placed my hand on a weighing instrument today while doing one arm push-ups today. The weight on the pushing arm, at my total weight of ~160 lbs , is about 50 kg. This means that a one arm push-up nearly equals an absolute bad ass level of dumbell chest press. Nearly? Well - a bit of work is done by your abs in a OAP, so you don't move those full 50 kg with just chest, triceps and shoulders. Nevertheless - I think that this shows that body resistance training can get you much further than often claimed. An individual capable of a one arm CHIN up is basically doing "curls" with his/her FULL body weight. On one working arm. Imagine what happens to the bicep and lats of this individual. See, it's true. Building muscle and strenght is a piece of cake in a gym compaired to doing it with your bodyweight. And arguably, you will get somewhat bigger gains with weights. This is probably because the truly effective bodyweight excercises are gymnastic masterpieces that the fewest humans will EVER attain. Sure, calisthenics will most likely not give you an elite lifter's physique. But most people won't attain those levels of muscular development with weights EITHER. And it is easy to say that calisthenics does not build reasonable amounts of muscle mass if you never tried. I mean, how many individuals can do all the one-limb bodyweight moves with proper form? Now substract those who train weights parallely (Greg O'Gallhager... Hi, you rock btw.) and think about those who built up these bodyweight master skills without the help of weightlifting. Are there any? Only someone who achieved this can tell you how much muscle can really be built with straight calisthenics. And I'm here to find out.