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When most people think about getting in shape they immediately think of weight training and cardio, however the truth is that there’s no better way to get your training started than a well designed beginner calisthenics workout routine. I know this because I spent several years training hard with heavy barbells at the gym and …
Being skinny-fat means that you lack upper body muscle mass while having excess body-fat in the lower waist, chest and hips. Compared to other guys, skinny-fat guys gain muscle mass at a much slower rate and we gain fat just by “looking at food”. It’s not uncommon for skinny-fat guys to train for months or …
I often get asked about why I recommend weighted bodyweight exercises for skinny-fat guys rather than weight training? Shouldn’t weight training exercises produce a superior result since most guys at the gym do weight training? In my experience, no, and in this post I will explain why weighted bodyweight exercises are superior to their weight …
Several years ago, a young guy named Harshit Godha emailed me to join my 1 year physique transformation program. He started out skinny-fat and wanted to build a summer body like the one pictured below, in just 50 days. After making a comprehensive assessment of Harshit Godha’s physique, I told him that it will take …
When you start your fitness journey it’s easy to get the idea that you need weight training to build a muscular physique. But that is wrong. Plenty of people have built muscular physiques with the use of basic calisthenics exercises such as chin ups and diamond push ups. The main benefit of many calisthenics exercises …
Most of you can perform sets of 20+ regular push ups with ease and this makes the push up useless for strength and muscle building, since it’s too easy. 20+ reps will mostly build endurance since the upper body responds best to 8-20 reps for muscle building. In contrast, the diamond push up might be …
Note: Mike Joplin has sadly passed away on 29 November 2017 at age 72. (Full details here). I’m sending my condolences to his family and loved ones. In the mid 1960’s a young US NAVY medic named Mike Joplin was stationed in Puerto Rico (Roosevelt Roads: aka – Roosey Roads). Like most young men, he craved …
One day I went to a calisthenics facility near my apartment and met two guys who were doing handstand push ups, muscle ups and levers. I was impressed by their strength, so I chatted them up. They had a calisthenics group here in Copenhagen and invited me for their training sessions. During my first session …
