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Calisthenic Beginners, Calisthenics Workout

Learn the basics of shoulder strength and recovery

Has this happened to you?

You just started doing calisthenics and felt inspired. It didn’t feel like those other things you’ve tried.

This time it felt real.

This time you were really going doing it. BEAST MODE.

Every training brought new surprises. New levels of skill. Mountains of strength.

You surprised even yourself, you never thought you would improve this fast and then…fate decides differently.

As you proceed with your next push up you feel a sharp sting in your shoulder.

INJURY.

Your next training session the same sting and then you realize you need the shoulder you can’t use for almost every single upper body exercises.

Knowing the importance you try it all.

You try resting, you try working out other muscles, you try stretching, you even try some weird alternative Chinese medicine which is said to be made from tiger balls.

But every time you try a push up or any other upper body exercise that sharp pain hits you.

It feels unfair after all the work you’ve put into your progress.

You desperately throw 2 more of those Chinese tiger ball tablets into your glass of water while you ask yourself: “Why me? Why now?”.

Perhaps your workouts are missing something which is the most important thing you can do for your shoulders.

They were designed with a specific goal in mind.

Calisthenics Diet, Paleo

If you have visited any of the 10 gazillion websites on fitness, you have seen them.

The eye-catching ‘ridiculously named’ pre-workout boosters that promise to increase your muscle growth by at least 100% and make you look like the Hulk.

You see the non-pronounceable ingredients and scroll through the jaw dropping testimonials of fat people seemingly turning into professional models over night.

And inevitably, you find yourself ordering every single one.

But soon after, you realize that most of those boosters haven’t brought you 1 step closer to being ‘a testimonial’ to success yourself.

In other words, you’ve been …. up your rectum.

Worse still, the placebo effect has made you dependent of them. Your new ‘need for a magic boost’ means you are still taking pre-workout drinks despite all the opposing evidence.

But you must need a good pre workout drink, right?

So the question remains:

Which pre-workout drink can you really use?

And wouldn’t it be great if it had been underneath your nose all along, without any fancy name, more effective and at least 80% cheaper?

The pull up method by charles lewis armstrong to increase your pull ups

What is it with those pull ups?

You just don’t seem to be able to increase them.

While everyone around you is doing muscle ups.

You are still struggling on the pull up progression.

There is nothing wrong with that, you just wish it were a bit faster.

You got your few first pull ups by surprise, but those few pull ups have made you want it even more.

And you are addicted to that feeling of progress – beast mode.

You know that in order to do more pull ups, you need to do more pull ups, but you feel like there should be more ways – a way to shock those muscles into overdrive.

Thankfully you aren’t the first one.

Somebody cracked that code already.

Many years ago.

Cool isn’t it?

That phone you are probably reading this article on.

And you haven’t even been using it as much as you could.

Which might sound as a surprise.

Even if you are looking at it the entire day, you probably haven’t used these before.

No it’s not facebook, instagram or whatsapp.

Every now and then there are some apps that can actually help you increase your testosterone, lose fat and help you find a workout park anywhere in the world at the same time.

Huh? Yes, I know…

You might wonder where the catch is.

There is a catch, you actually have to download them ;).

Want to know which 3 apps have helped get more ripped while travelling for 6 months through 6 different countries and more than 100 cities?

Calisthenics Workout

Oh no! It happened.

You got yourself an inevitable wrist injury.

Just like David from the forum.

It will happen, sooner or later…

Why? Because that’s part of developing yourself and finding that sweet spot where your limits meet your capabilities.

In some occasions you will go over those limits.

“Only those willing to risk going too far can possibly know how far they can go.”

Fortunately, you can prepare yourself and train your wrists into something which is referred to as anti-fragile.

Anti-fragility is a concept which boils down to the ability of someone or something to recover from injury and become stronger in the process.

Having strong wrists is not necessarily about them being indestructible, but it’s about developing the skill set to make them stronger after you have injured them.

You can keep injuring yourself and recover into the same level of strength.

Or you can develop anti-fragile wrists by using the tips and tools in this post. The choice is yours.

Are you ready to jump in?

So you feel that you are ready?

Push it a little harder, grow a little stronger and build your body a little faster.

Some people TRY to become a Bar Brother master.

But you are different, you understand that there is NO such thing.

DO or DO NOT, there is NO TRY

That’s why you started Bar Brothers, to DO this $#!@$#

After the 14 beginner routines & the 16 intermediate routines, I have been dying to share this with you.

And soon you will be dying to catch some breath when you start executing these routines.

Just don’t start doing them before you are able to do both the beginner and the intermediate routines in a controlled way.

But you probably already feel like you do, so don’t tell me I did not warn you!

Anyways here goes nothing…