What is up
Beast!
Hope your Wednesday started out amazing!
Yesterday I went to get a haircut at the most badass & manliest barbershop in San Diego - Mister Browns (They give you whiskey, there is skulls all over the walls & you can challenge anyone there to a game of pool - I love this barbershop)
As soon as my barber Alex saw me he said:
"Hey you do calisthenics! I've seen your videos"
He had been following me on Instagram for some time & we started to talk about muscle ups & he said that he does weighted pull ups a lot.
He starts with a heavy weight, does 5
reps & keeps taking off 10 pounds until he is only doing bodyweight & does one final max set.
This is a great set structure to build muscle & I would highly encourage you to try it on your next pull up workout.
Talk with Alex about weighted pull ups got me thinking about you!
Do you
currently do weighted calisthenics?
If your goal is to build lean muscle while getting stronger then I would start progressively adding weight to these exercises:
Dips, push ups, pull ups, squats & lunges
You can start off by adding 10-25 pounds on your back next time you
do push ups & every week add 5 more pounds to your push ups.
The key to build muscle & get stronger long term is to always have progressive overload.
Meaning that you always make the exercise a little harder by resting less in between sets, adding weight or doing more reps.
And
adding weight is a very simple thing to do once you have a solid foundation with bodyweight reps.
On your next workout add weight to one of the 6 bodyweight exercises I mentioned & each week add a little more weight & guarantee that you will get stronger & spark new muscle growth!
Keep Killing Your Wednesday
Beast!
And if you want to progressively overload your chest by doing more push ups in less sets every week
