people that get afraid of high volume call thans because we're often in the park for multiple hours we're doing thousands of reps sometimes what do you say to people that are afraid of overtraining with K sanks there there is there is a possibility that you can overtrain but if you're doing it correctly if you're doing it correctly it's nothing really to fear but sess um most people um they always ask me like how many times do you train do you you don't have a rest day don't you you worry about getting hurt how do you
deal with the soreness to me if I don't work out the next day the soreness would really kick in like I I work out sometimes to get rid of the soreness so um I with with calisthetics I don't think you could really overtrain your body will tell you when it's time to chill yeah and it's a different discipline to say lifting weights where you can load up heavy on the bench press and really destroy yourself in that whatever rep range that you want whereas with K's thanks we' got so many luxuries you can just do
your body weight instead of adding weight to your body or you can just modify how many reps you're doing in a set exactly exactly and I that's what I tell people all the time this is not weight training this is calisthetics you know like I said when I was younger I would train three times a day three times a day you know I would be I would work out early this is when I had no real responsibilities I would the golden years that's it I would try if I see a park if I see someone
working out in the park I will pull over and go in the park and work out and maybe maybe run them out the park and just go about my way go to another Park and do it all over again and I never never experien any sort of injuries or really bad fatigue the next day or or anything if anything I felt more charged to do it again the next day and I'm talking about eight hour sessions six hour sessions true and it's given that we can do so many reps on these body weight Basics if
you're failing a set of pull-ups on 30 reps you rest for a few minutes you might do 25 and then go again and do like 22 like it's very different in the respect that you can just you can become like a Workhorse and just do so many sets again and again and again rarely you're going to be at the point where oh I'm so tired and overtrained I can't do a single pullup or a single push-up with this you could I'm sure if you did a full workout rested an hour you could do it like
a lot again yes won't be as much as before but still a lot yes and that that happen what what would happen is you would get tired from doing the pull-ups and then you'll recharge by doing some push-ups and vice versa you go to the neutral grip pull-ups and then you'll go do some dips and you could go back and forth all day and that's what we used to do interesting yeah yeah so introducing variation on those same exercises can just keep you going so you start with wi grip pull-ups hardest exercise then you could
go to even a a shoulder width pull-up which is mechanically easier you can go to a super n chin up and then the neutral grip it's just the amount that you can do with this so much yes and that's that's how we charged up too exactly how you said and then we'll just start right back from the top and go back to the wide pull-ups all and I'm sure you've done the same with push-ups you can do some uh like the hardest variation that you could do say it's on the floor with a deep stretch
and you could finish off with some incline push-ups so when you thought you were done with the normal push-ups nah n baby this is Cal snacks exactly exactly and then then you implement the holes you do the Statics it's never ending Cal that's the beauty of calisthetics compared to weight training for sure and now for people that are excited to pursue Cal snacks what are some goals that they can work towards in terms of rep numbers for all the basics pull-ups push-ups dips unbroken the numbers that you should be able to hit is 50 pushups
you should be able to do 50 push-ups you should be able to do 30 pull-ups you should be able to do 60 dips the best way I would say to to train for those numbers is by doing pyramids this way I I I trick all my clients all the beginners all my students into doing High numbers by doing pyramids the the first pyramid that I taught was the 2 4681 back down to two and I trick them into doing 50 push-ups because if you ask most beginners like I want you to do 50 pull-ups they
hear that and like oh I mean push-ups they and they they go crazy but if you tell them okay do two push-ups okay four push-ups six eight back down to two like you just did 50 push-ups and they always look in amazement I'm not I don't stress too much on doing muscle ups muscleups is a completely different conversation about muscleups yeah it almost comes for free from doing your work on the other stuff yes people today I remember when I started you would see no one doing muscle ups I would be one of the few
people doing muscleups in the park now today you see people doing muscleups that can't even do 10 consecutive pull-ups which is crazy yeah it BLS my mind too it's like uh trying to Sprint before you can walk type of exactly exactly so I I say those numbers today those numbers are I I would say should be standard or something to Aspire to once you get those numbers you're good you don't need to get 100 push-ups you don't need to give 50 pull-ups you know yeah cuz I see guys today some some of the the new
guys they going into the realm of 100 pull-ups I saw 95 pull-ups the other day um the standard online now is just absolutely blowing my mind what what I saw with you when I first started was up here and then to think that people are doing double what you were doing it's just it's insane man it's insane exactly like the the the god Set for instance um that was um the 50 pull-ups and the 50 straight bar dips that that was 2014 I believe yes that was 2014 um and at the time at the time
uh yeah no one was doing 50 pull-ups like that period so that's how that came about because I tried and trained so hard for the 50 pull-ups to get them a decent a decent 50 a Ze approved 50 and after I got that I thought to myself like what would be even more like like over the top like what would really put it there and that was to do the straight bar dips after what's Impossible about that for myself and the average person is no only have you just done 50 consecutive pull-ups you have to
do a muscle up to get to the top of the bar to even do your dips so that's the barrier for many people to even begin to think of doing the god exactly exactly and and notice I left the muscle up part out I never count the muscle up unless it's five muscle ups or better so the muscle up is just the movement to get above the bar for that for that situation so that's something like you have to be in mind too you have to be able to muscle up to do those 50 board
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