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Questions tagged [bodyweight-exercises]

Bodyweight exercises use the body as resistance. Exemplary exercises are push ups, planks, pull ups and squats.

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How scientific are the Prilepin tables?

Are the prilepin tables like this one http://www.eatmoveimprove.com/2012/05/prilepin-tables-for-bodyweight-strength-isometric-and-eccentric-exercises/ attested by scientists? Or are they just someone's best guess? If it's relevant, I am using this…
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What is a bodyweight-only strength workout with a few compound exercises?

Today's paradigm seems to be the Reg Park workouts in different flavours, like Starting Strength and StrongLifts 5x5. A few compound exercises with free weights, using barbells, as opposed to the 80's fever of specialised machines and crazy complex…
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Is there a purpose for this slapping at the top of reps?

This question led me to this video, apparently of Dejan "STIPKE" Stipic, doing various feats of bodyweight strength. In the pull-ups, dips, and squats, there's a fellow beside him who gives a light slap to the limb in action at the top of the…
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Bodyweight inverted row - where do the elbows go?

With bodyweight inverted row, or body row, I mean hanging by my arms from somthing, the feet on the ground, the body more or less horizontal (head higher), and pulling myself up between my hands. I keep my elbows close to my body, pointing towards…
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Bodyweight exercises to increase legs strength

This year I have returned to alpine skiing and found myself relatively fit for quite intensive skiing session (up to 10 runs per hour for 3-4 hours straight twice a day for 5 days) except for two things where my body failed. Second one: While I can…
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What kind of physique would a lot of burpees build?

Different sports and exercises produce different physiques. Runners become skinny if they run long distances or bulky if they do sprint work, track cyclists have big legs, rowers build large chests. I wonder what physique would be produced by a…
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Does muscle adaptation occur when strength training (low reps)?

My current strength-training goals are: One-armed pull-ups: 4x5 One-armed chin-ups: 4x5 One-armed push-ups: 4x5 Handstand push-ups: 4x5 (also training legs through running and pistol squats and abs throuh various exercises) As I understand it, once…
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Will I improve by climbing 10 flights of stairs every day?

I started climbing 10 flights of stairs every day. At the end, I'm breathing heavily and by heart is beating rapidly. My calves are hurting a bit... Will I definitely improve, even though this only takes around 5 minutes a day?
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Bodyweight exercises to stimulate fast-twitch muscle growth

So I want to achieve a slim-athletic physique through only doing body-weight exercises. As I understand it, after you do more than 12-15ish reps of an exercise per set, you're no longer utilising your fast-twitch muscle fibers which are the ones…
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When will I stall?

Currently doing EMOM with 11 push ups per minute. Started 1 janurary 2021 with 77 push ups in 7 minutes and now I'm at 121 in 11 minutes. At the moment it's quite fairly easy, not easy like I could do way more than that but easy enough to know that…
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Can I train skills (planche, handstand, etc) in the evening and dips at a later time of the day?

I have been working out for a year and have started to do more body-weight training four months ago. I want to achieve skills that are chest-, triceps- and shoulder-oriented. But I also want to get a strong dip. Is it then okay to train for planche …
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Does it make any difference how I hoist myself up when I raise the legs/knees?

When raising the legs/knees for training the abs, I can hang from a pull-up bar, use parallel bars with my arms straight, or rest my elbows against a rail in the captain's chair exercise. Does it matter which one I choose, or are they basically the…
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Can I do this floor exercise routine every day?

Question: Can I perform the workout listed below every day without worrying about injury or should I take a break every couple of days? ========================= jumping jacks (1 min) Squats (30 sec) Calf Raises (30 sec) Standing Steam Engines (30…
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Should you do muscle-ups everyday for optimal improvement?

I couldn't find any information about this on google, so I'm asking here. My answer is yes because it's not that power-draining, more like technical skill, thus hard to overtrain. As long as I properly warm up first, do you think it is possible to…
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I am 170 cm tall and i am only 47 kgs. How to increse my weight??I have not tried any proper exercise.

What are the possible ways to increase my weight with proper body shape??
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