Complete Calisthenics, Second Edition


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The ultimate guide to bodyweight exercises for anyone interested in taking their workouts to the next level without the use of weights, machines, or expensive gym memberships Complete Calisthenics is an essential guide for anyone interested in losing weight, building core strength, and taking their workouts to the next level. Author and trainer Ashley Kalym has designed a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to calisthenics using only one's own bodyweight for resistance. Readers will learn how to execute a wide range of exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, core development movements, and lower-body routines. Also included are easy-to-follow instructions for the planche, the front and back lever, handstands, handstand push-ups, muscle-ups, leg training, and other key exercises. Complete Calisthenics includes essential information on workout preparation, simple props, nutrition, and an assortment of diverse training routines. New to this second edition are enhanced muscle-building exercises, instructions for optimal rest and recovery, and an assortment of original recipes. Kalym also includes samples from his personal food diary. With over 500 instructional photos, Complete Calisthenics takes readers on a path to creating physical endurance, agility, and power. The book is suitable for every level of athlete, from beginner to experienced.




Overcoming Gravity


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Calisthenics for Beginners


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Achieve your fitness goals with calisthenics—no weights, trainer or gym required Gain strength, mobility, endurance, and flexibility using simple body movements and nothing more than your own weight. Calisthenics for Beginners provides an all-inclusive training plan that won't require massive sacrifices to your time, energy, or wallet. Power through three calisthenic workout programs that progress in technique and intensity as you build a comprehensive understanding of this approachable training method. Then, explore recovery techniques, plus guidelines for creating a workout routine that fits your personal goals and lifestyle. Calisthenics is the workout of choice for athletes of all fitness levels, from weekend walkers to professional sports stars. Calisthenics for Beginners includes: Training for all levels—Endlessly adjustable and customizable calisthenics workouts meet you where you are and serve your unique fitness goals. Full-body workouts—This complete, efficient approach to fitness works your whole body with a series of simple movement patterns. Variety, versatility, and fun—More than 35 dynamic exercises featuring the progressions, modifications, and variations you need to keep it interesting, challenging, and engaging. The myth that getting fit requires a gym, a trainer, and even weights has been disproven—calisthenics is the physical conditioning way of the future.




Urban Calisthenics


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Are you seeking a better way to build a stronger body that doesn’t require a gym? Are you ready for the next level of fitness and a more extreme challenge? If you’ve grown bored or frustrated with traditional strength training methods and aren’t getting the results you want, Urban Calisthenics has the workouts you need. With progressive bodyweight street workouts you can do anywhere, all you’ll need to get ripped and strong is your body, a few simple pieces of equipment, and the willpower to make it happen. With nearly 70 bodyweight exercises and 10 precision routines, Urban Calisthenics will help you create the strong, balanced, muscular body you’ve been seeking. You’ll quickly forget the gym and discover a greater level of fitness that can be achieved virtually anywhere, and at any time! · Loaded with nearly 70 exercises, from basics like the push-up, chin-up, and lunge, to superhuman movements like the planche, human flag, and the double clap push-up · Utilizes a progressive training approach that starts with basic bodyweight exercises and guides you through more challenging movements until you're ready for the most challenging bodyweight exercises of all · Features 10 high-intensity, whole-body workouts that will push you to your limits and beyond · Contains dynamic full-color photography, detailed step-by-step instruction, and positive motivation from globally recognized bodyweight training expert Tee Major




Convict Conditioning 2


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Foreword The Many Roads to Strength by Brooks Kubik III Opening Salvo: Chewing Bubblegum and Kicking Ass V 1. Introduction: Put Yourself Behind Bars VII PART I: SHOTGUN MUSCLE Hands and Forearms 2: Iron Hands and Forearms: Ultimate Strength 1-with Just Two Techniques 3: The Hang Progressions: A Vice-Like Bodyweight Grip Course 15 4: Advanced Grip Torture: Explosive Power + Titanium Fingers 39 5: Fingertip Pushups: Keeping Hand Strength Balanced 47 6: Forearms into Firearms: Hand Strength 57 A Summary and a Challenge Lateral Chain 7: Lateral Chain Training: Capturing the Flag 63 8: The Clutch Flag: In Eight Easy Steps 71 9: The Press Flag: In Eight Not-So-Easy Steps 89 Neck and Calves 10. Bulldog Neck: Bulletproof Your Weakest Link 113 11. Calf Training: Ultimate Lower Legs-No Machines Necessary 131 PART II: BULLETPROOF JOINTS 12. Tension-Flexibility: The Lost Art of Joint Training 149 13: Stretching-the Prison Take: Flexibility, Mobility, Control 163 14. The Trifecta: Your Secret Weapon for Mobilizing Stiff, Battle-Scarred Physiques-for Life 173 15: The Bridge Hold Progressions: The Ultimate Prehab/Rehab Technique189 16: The L-Hold Progressions: Cure Bad Hips and Low Back-Inside-Out 211 17: Twist Progressions: Unleash Your Functional Triad 225 PART III: WISDOM FROM CELLBLOCK G 18. Doing Time Right: Living the Straight Edge 225 19. The Prison Diet: Nutrition and Fat Loss Behind Bars 237 20. Mendin' Up: The 8 Laws of Healing 253 21. The Mind: Escaping the True Prison 271 !BONUS CHAPTER! Pumpin' Iron in Prison: Myths, Muscle and Misconceptions 285




The Esquire Guide to Bodyweight Training


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From the editors of Esquire magazine and top-tier personal trainer Adam Schersten comes the ultimate bodyweight training guide for the modern man. Drop the dumbbells. Ditch the weights. Get in shape and stay in shape with this strength training roster of do-anywhere exercises and calisthenics programs. This is the portable personal trainer for the man on the move—no heavy machines or gym membership required. Adam Schersten's bodyweight exercises strengthen, chisel, and tone for a bodyweight training workout that any man can do, from the busy exec to the fitness fanatic looking for his next challenge. Transform your body, with: 75 bodyweight exercises and over 175 detailed illustrations 3 progressive strength training programs (for 4-week, 8-week, and 12-week terms) to condition, strengthen, and chisel Nutritional info for getting fueled and fit—from pre to post-workout An intro to mobility training, the prerequisite to any effective calisthenics program The program in The Esquire Guide to Bodyweight Training fits perfectly into any man's schedule for an effective full-body workout.




Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy


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Going far beyond standard pull-ups, push-ups, and squats, Bodyweight Strength Training Anatomy presents 156 unique exercises that work every muscle in the body. Detailed anatomical artwork accompanies step-by-step instructions for performing each exercise anytime, anywhere, without the need for equipment or machines.




Explosive Calisthenics


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How to Lead, Survive and Dominate PhysicallyâBy Becoming "The Complete Package" As an Athlete⦠E xplosive Calisthenics is for those who want to be winners and survivors in the game of lifeâfor those who want to be the Complete Package: powerful, explosive, strong, agile, quick and resilient. Traditional martial arts have always understood this necessity of training the complete packageâwith explosive power at an absolute premium. And resilience is revered: the joints, tendons, muscles, organs and nervous system are ALL conditioned for maximum challenge.




Get Strong


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How to Build a Better Body Fast Where do you belong on the strength continuum? And where do you want to be? Too often, we know what we should be doing to gain strength, but we lack direction, a plan, motivation and intelligent guidance to make appreciable gains over the long haul. We have no real goal, no proper focus and therefore underachieve--going nowhere with our strength... Get Strong is a guidebook for those who are dissatisfied with their current rate of progress--and who want to effect lasting changes, fast... While the Kavadlo brothers have achieved supreme feats of calisthenics strength--like the one-arm pull up, the human flag and the back lever--they have also spent decades helping thousands of clients meet and often exceed their training goals. So, you can consider the Kavadlos curators of not only the most effective bodyweight exercises, but also the programming needed to extract the full juice from those chosen drills. As experienced architects and constructors of strength, the Kavadlos know what it takes to advance from absolute newbie to elite practitioner. You'll discover what key exercises in what exact progressions will give you the best results in the fastest, safest time.




Bulletproof Bodies


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From tennis elbow to low back pain, Bulletproof Bodies aims to demonstrate how targeted body-weight exercise can be used to tackle a range of injuries and improve joint range-of-motion, muscle strength and endurance, and ligament and tendon health. As an added bonus, by using the suggested exercises you will also gain strength and physical fitness. Through engaging multiple parts of the body and stabilizing muscle groups, the exercises in Bulletproof Bodies offer a challenging, stimulating and accessible means of dealing with those niggling injuries. Whether you are already a highly tuned athlete looking to stay at the top of your game, a return-to-fitness enthusiast with new aches and pains, or a moderately active individual keen to overcome that recurring joint pain, Bulletproof Bodies will offer you a range of exercises to target specific body areas and even specific types of condition. Along the way, this book will also educate you on "need-to-know" elements of anatomy and pathology