Building BASIC BEGINNER Bodyweight FOUNDATIONS | School of Calisthenics

This is the type of foundation building we teach at our classes and workshop for beginners. We hope the insight gives you some ideas for your own training!
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[@abigailmorris1196]

MAN I wish y’all could expand to Arkansas !!!😂😂

[@dudeskinus]

I made to a SOC video!! Haha

[@davelane4055]

Great video Mates hope ya'll are well in the mother country

[@SchoolofCalisthenics]

Thanks for the support! Hope your training is going well.

[@yannickwekking1000]

Looks Great! I would love to come to one of your classes. Are you planning on one day expending outside the UK?

[@SchoolofCalisthenics]

We hope so! Would be great to meet you

[@michaelfuchs2502]

Unfortunately there is only poor quality of sound. But else: very helpful. Thank you.

[@SchoolofCalisthenics]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@tona296]

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[@justryan2070]

Did we lose Tim to Gymnastics?
Do you guys find your weight shifting more to your fingers or palms with pike and handstand pushups? Or does it feel evenly distributed between palm and fingers? Any shift in weight to the outside or inside of the hands?

[@SchoolofCalisthenics]

No I'm still here! Fingers are active all the time but weight is shifting between palms and fingers based on the corrections you need to make to stabilise and balance. No shift to the outside or inside really if you're maintaining a straight alignment. Tim

[@justryan2070]

Thanks. I can feel I'm close and I have about a 5 second freestanding negative. The bottom is my sticking point. Do you think I should work more negatives from the top down or spent more time in the frog stand from the bottom up. Should the bulk of my training be focused on stacking the hips and holding both knees off the frog or just more negatives and headstands?

[@SchoolofCalisthenics]

Some pause reps in vertical pushing movements where you pause at the bottom to kill any movement in things like pike push ups and wall handstand push up will help with the strength. Keep on top of the balance and progressions from the frogstand but build the main bulk of your strength with those pause reps.

[@justryan2070]

Got it, thanks. The last two weeks I was working in some pause reps to get dead strong in my pike pushups. Since the bottom half is the hardest part I've tried to take 2 seconds to halfway and another 3-4 seconds down to headstand so I really focus on that weak spot. Would be interesting to see some one arm pushups vs bench press like your hspu to ohp video you did a little bit ago. If I had to guess I'd say up to 3 months before I get it down?