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- What's up elite THENX athletes?
It's Chris Heria.
Welcome to another video of official THENX.
Today we're gonna be continuing the series
How I Got So Strong.
And today we'll be covering calisthenics versus weights.
Let's get into it.
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Alright guys, so let's get started.
So today we're gonna be going over
weights versus calisthenics.
Continuing the how I got so strong series.
Now before we begin I just want to tell you guys
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Alright, so let's get into this video.
So today we're talking about calisthenics versus weights.
Well, let's begin by defining both of them.
Calisthenics is when you are training with your body weight.
You are using your body weight to work out.
Weight training is using an external resistance.
Using weight to work out.
When you're training with calisthenics,
its gonna focus more on body control and body engagement.
Relative strength, how strong you are
relative to your body weight.
Now weights focuses more on targeted muscles.
Specifically your maximum strength.
How much maximum overload force you can produce.
Now when you're training calisthenics
you're really gonna be engaging your fast twitch muscles,
body control, and your core engagement.
These are the main things
that you're gonna be developing with calisthenics.
When you're training with weight
you're gonna be developing your power specifically.
How much force you can possibly exert
on an external weight, external resistance.
Now, let me give you a hypothetical situation.
You see a lot of guys in the gym
and they can bench 400 pounds.
They can row 400 pounds.
Whatever, and do massive amount of weight.
They have crazy amount of power, right?
But then you tell them to go do 20 pushups,
and they can't even do 20 pushups.
They can't even do 10 pull-ups to save their life.
Why? That's because weight training
does not translate into calisthenics.
It does not translate into body weight control,
body weight training relative to strength.
However, someone training in calisthenics.
Training the right way with the right programing.
Is actually gonna be able to use the skills
and the strength they applied into the weight room.
Because when you're training calisthenics
you're creating a body connection.
You are mainly engaging your core
whenever you are doing any exercise.
Involuntarily, whether you like it or not
you're strengthening your core with every exercise.
And, you're gonna have a body controlled.
You're gonna have this body awareness
where you're gonna be able to
use your core to help with your lift.
Use your core to help with your press.
Use the leverage of accessing other muscles
in your body to use your body as one unit
to apply strength and force
that is gonna have you produce the moves
that you want to do.
Which is obviously gonna get you to the next level.
You're lifting heavier, you're doing more repetition,
you're getting stronger.
Now, even though calisthenics translates
into the weight room.
And there are aspects that you would gain from calisthenics.
Such as the body awareness, the core engagement,
and the fast twitch activations
that are gonna help you in the weight room.
It doesn't mean necessarily that you're gonna go in there
and be lifting crazy amounts of weight.
Because to acquire that, you must be lifting heavy.
And you cannot necessarily do that in calisthenics
because you're using body weight training.
You can only train as much as you weigh
or as much weight as you can put on your body
when it comes to calisthenics or body weight training.
That's not gonna be nearly as much as the weight
that you can put on a barbell or the amount of weight
that you can hold in your hand with a dumbbell.
That is why it is so much easier
to put on a lot more mass with weights.
And it's easier to create more power with weights.
Cuz you're gonna be able to use
a lot more external force to your advantage.
Now, there's not one training style
that's better than the other.
There's certain aspects that you're gonna get
from one training style,
and certain aspects that you're gonna get
from the other one.
And specifically, excercises.
There's some exercises, calisthenics exercises
that are gonna benefit you so greatly
that you can never do with weight training.
And there are weight training exercises
that are gonna greatly benefit you
that you're never gonna be able
to reproduce through calisthenics.
And I'm gonna show you that in this workout
that we're gonna do today.
So to sum it all up. What you get from calisthenics
is relative strength, body control,
core engagement, and activation of your fast twitch muscles.
Being able to reproduce (snaps fingers) boom
power as fast as you can.
And weights will help you increase mass
more efficiently and easier.
As well as gain your maximum strength
and power by targeting specific muscles,
and giving it a maximum overload.
An amount of weight that you can never do
with calisthenics on isolated muscle groups.
So now I'm gonna show you guys the workout
that's gonna bring best of both worlds, alright.
If you're just doing one calisthenics
you're not gonna get the benefit from weight training.
And if you're just doing weight training
you're not gonna the benefit from calisthenics.
You gotta do both to become the ultimate athlete.
In fact do as many things as you can.
Don't just do weights and calisthenics.
Do skateboarding, wake boarding.
Whatever it is that gets you active.
And that kicks you outta your comfort zone.
Takes you outside of the box,
and has you activating your body
in new ways that you have never done before.
It's normally the things that you never do
those are the things that you need to do.
So now we're gonna go for this whole body workout.
We're gonna start off with muscle-ups. After our muscle-ups,
We're gonna go straight into clean and press.
From there we're gonna do some around the worlds.
After that we're gonna go into deadlifts.
Then we're gonna go into L-sit front lever.
Then we have squats.
And we're gonna finish of with wall-walk, handstand, press.
So if you guys are ready, I'm ready. Let's get started.
Alright, so we're gonna start of with some muscle-ups.
Now this is the move right here like I was saying before.
You can't replicate this with weight training.
This is a specialized calisthenics move
that's gonna get you to the next level.
Have you engaging your whole entire body.
Giving you that body connection, body engagement.
Here we go.
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Alright, that's a nice little warm-up. So, right there.
If you guys need help doing your muscle ups
If you can't do a muscle up,
you can always use a resistance band.
We just made our
original, custom resistance bands.
So if you guys need them