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How the body works:
The body is deeply connected. every ligament attaches to a part of you that attaches to another part of you. You can have neck pains and issues stemming from a ankle injury - the calf muscles and Achilles tendon take strain to compensate for the injury, this puts pressure on your hamstring complex, which puts pressure on your ITBand which is compensated for by your glute muscles (max and mede) which pull on your spinae erector muscles along your spine, putting strain on your lats, linking to your traps, causing neck pain.
Although this is not always the case, it is an example showing just how connected your body actually is! So... why then would we look to train aesthetically? To isolate the body in extreme methods and increase the size of every individual muscle seems counter productive to how the body works. Unless you're a professional bodybuilder, this would just create more opportunities to visit your local physio!
Old school bodybuilders (before the mechanisation of training possibilities) were all asked to perform feats of strength to prove they have size, strength and mobility. This was long before Arnie's day. The body can build incredible solid muscle through nothing but Calisthenic Training, creating size AND strength if they wish it.
Calisthenics is the most flexible form of training that has ever existed. It is the alter that I lay my ideals on. Bodybuilders used to use calisthenics to build size; Athletes, like runners, use calisthenics to target and activate fast twitch muscle fibres and slow twitch muscle fibres in their cross training; Gladiators built their strength with calisthenics in order to survive hand to hand combat; and so on it goes...
This lost art can be amalgamated for various purposes. I use slow controlled movements to build stamina in strength workouts, and faster timed movements in High Intensity Interval Training workouts. Any cardio you can think of is also calisthenics: a 5km run, an 800m swim, even a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu 'rolling session'.
The main Focus of using calisthenics is to avoid injury while creating a level of fitness perfect for even the most elite athlete.
Lose weight, build muscle mass, reach peak physical performance.
