Can you gain Muscles without getting Stronger? (my story & secret)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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Love this guy. Super real, down to earth, and no bull. Seems like he actually wants us to improve. Best of luck man!
Love it bro, I’m 6’3 and 190lbs and you been an inspiration for years. Thanks for paving the way
Post more content like this man! I'm learning a lot and I'm pretty sure it's very valuable for the audience
i think you would kill it with long form videos man.
you are a very incredibly skilled young man and you come across very smart and polite, i think u will go a long way brother, salute
Thank you man🤝🏼
@@Ian.barseagle please make a video on how to overcome plaeteus..
@@Ian.barseagle Hey ian, love your vids man!
I wanted to ask if i can do calisthenics and weight training
i do like 4 days/week resistance training but i wanna incorporate calisthenics to my programme, how can i add calisthenics to it
thanks alot mate, keep it up
@@Ian.barseagle Good video man I agree with this stuff from my experience is similar. Do you think doing 30 reps or more can still gain the muscle? I train to failer and past with partial reps. I still have shoulder issues so its been just pushups again right now. Something better than nothing.
@@rayain431 @Ian.barseagle, I too would like to know please!
Ian thank you so much for the amazing knowledge! I’ve just turned 18 and you are one of the of my biggest inspirations for calisthenics and weightlifting. I too have tried to find the old methods of training that ACTUALLY work, and it seems like you have found the answers! Thanks for sharing this knowledge, especially for FREE! Most influencers now days charge money for their programs and you are giving us the key info that we need! Much appreciation for you, and keep doing what you’re doing. 💪
I fully agree with you. His influence is what got me started to gain real progress for the past 4 months instead of pointlessly following fitness videos and still get confused and I was actually very skinny before. Now im in noticable shape in how I look after gaining almost every free bits of knowledge from him. And I'm also gonna be turning 18 this month!
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I’m glad I inspire you bro🤝🏼, and honestly there’s nothing wrong with influencers charging for their knowledge and experience which took years to gain, what is wrong tho is them not being smart enough to charge somebody for their help😂, often they don’t know too much but they act like they do
I'm 16 I will start tomorrow morning actually have 30 challenge with my clg frnd I will practice much more than what the challenge is for
@@Ian.barseaglevery true. Thanks for the reply!
Your info is what I need to get stronger! Cheers, brother!❤💪
I dont know why, but I absolutely love watching this guy speak. very knowledgable
31 years old, 189 cm and 95 kg. January 1st 2024 I achieved 20 wide pullups in a row. I've only managed 15 before and tried after a full weekend of rest. I thought 20 would take me the whole year as 20 for my weight is HARD. I FELT SO HAPPY. You've been a major inspiration over the past year in my calisthenics journey. I've trained for 4.5 years now but honestly, on and off with intensity. But I ALWAYS train something 5 days a week. Even when I don't really feel like it. Thank you for everything :)
I've also had to deal with lower back pain a lot. It also triggers from accidentally sleeping in bad positions.
Vertical movements dont get really harder, horizontals do because of a concept called leverage
So how long did it take for you to go from 15 to 20?
@@pashpriv2380 It's hard to answer, I never attempted to go above 15 for several months. Then after a long weekend of rest I felt amazing and just went for as high as I could 2 weeks ago. I can't do above 15 without long rest but I can hit 12-14 any day. But all in all, 2 years maybe? Out of 4 years total in the gym.
@@krisumusicHow can you be 90+ kgs? I'm 185 cm, but i can't get even to 80😢.
@@LONERZ I used to be 120 kg for several years! I was lazy and fat. In September it will be 5 years of self-improvement 🦋 short answer: genetics! I gain both fat and muscle very easily.
You are the reason why i'm starting calisthenics months ago, I'll be back to you in one year.
I'm 26 this year and I'm super impressed that you get into calisthenics ever since young age 14. If only i knew what is calisthenics when i was that age i could have start doing it sooner. For now I'm still a complete beginner still can't do pull up without band. I learned a lot from your videos and i think you are very intelligent and very strong sportsman especially in calisthenics at very young age. Keep it up 💪🏻 Bars eagle 🦅
How many pullups you can do now?
@@AnimeUyir for now only 3 max full rep pull up with assisted band
You're so confident, you have a lot of knowledge, congratulations!!
Bro im sure you will not see this but you inspired me the most and im from romania as well 2 week ago i broke my shin and im wantig to really focus on chalisthenics i hope you will achieve everithing in life you always wanted.
Hey Ian, just wanted to say thanks for being the most honest fitness creator out there! I’m just trying to be like you👊
Yo I know he is the goat
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Hello from Russia, Ian! Thank you for the video and the free book. It all helps a lot. Your shorts motivate me
Зачем ты пишешь ему по английски, он знает русский. Он же сказал, что с Молдовы
Calisthenics engages so many muscle groups you naturally hold a higher hormone level, meaning more muscle growth overall ... He's got great advice! 💪
Compound movements recruit more muscle then isolation movements? Crazy!
that's because theyre compound exercises. most basic exercises, weights or calisthenics, are compound exercises
Summary:
Very short: train with intensity, not volume for calisthenics strength.
Longer:
1. He himself had a lower back injury, which prevented him from progressing in weighted pull-ups.
He kept training though so he kinda trained like a bodybuilder (building muscle mass) with no progressive overload but with volume.
For calisthenics you don’t want this, you want intensity, which means doing about 2 sets with progressive overload (important for strength progress) not like a bodybuilder (he uses the term bodybuilder for someone on steroids and in bodybuilding competitions) with a lot of volume going to failure (=different kind of training)
2. Don’t do lat pull-downs after pull-ups bruh. Rest 5-10 min after failure for good recovery and do as many reps you can get.
(3?). Just start as soon as you can since it becomes routine and after years of good training it will definitely add up
Conclusion for us:
Keep adding weight as you get stronger and progress the overload for 2 sets (3 WITH progressive overload is very difficult/impossible)
Going to failure with volume is for bodybuilders, NOT calisthenics. For that you need to use intensity to go to failure
what he means with bodybuilders is not people that workout with gym machines, he means people that use steroids and take part into bodybuilding competitions, all he said has to do with people that go to the gym aswell and is not only restricted to people that do calisthenics, did you not hear how he was talking about lat pulldowns in the video?
Yea I heard sorry for unclarity. The difference is in building muscle mass and strength right? Going to failure with intensity or volume
@@redbot1233 yeah thats correct
i dont understand Is it necessary to have 3 sets of each workout or 2 sets to get stronger?@@MayLegon
He said 2 excercises not the 2 sets. I believe in his program he offers, he does 2 warm up sets with increasing intensity and then a heavy set , and then a slightly lower in weight set(with more reps then 3 rd set)
And do the same for 2nd excercise
Much appreciated advice for calisthenics strength progression. I actually changed my training program revolving around your methods 3 months back, and I have gained so much strength. Only mistake I am still doing is going to failure every sets; an issue from surrounded by body builder friends. Something I am gonna change starting tomorrow. Keep the videos coming =)
*I am 45 this year, still doing muscle ups in gym thanks to motivation from Ian
you are the one human for me the reason why i do sport seriously , thank you man i hope you will achieve greater things for you
I do exercises regularly but when I start to get lazy a bit I just come back to this channel. Take peek at one of you muscle up videos and done. Back to exercise.
w video man, i would love to watch other long form videos. You helped me and other guys who really want to understand how the system works. Thank you so much for everything you do. Salute brother.
Thanks for all the info, trying to get like you!!
You will bro you will! Keep it up!
@@Easy_Now_Star yep if I see back 8 months ago I progressed a lot by strength and some size, since size takes longer
the GOAT has uploaded :O
Appreciate you for giving a free guide. No one does that these days they just care about selling their course.
The thing that i love with this guy is that he is talking straight facts, i saw a guy that only trains with science based workouts and he also only does 1 or 2 exercises per muscle group. Keep it up man!
Been training for years, all the advice given is true, high intensity is the way when you are natural
I just had finished a weighted 10 kg vest workout, at home. I did 10 Dips and 10 Pushups for 20 sets, one minute break between sets. What do you think? Is this kind of training going to build mass? I mean I look good already but I'd like to be a lil' bit bigger. This is the way I train for 3 years and i have seen great results in phisycal appereance but not in strenght. What should i do!? Thanks! Big up!
I would recomend you to try to rest 4 minutes between sets. So you can recover and perform your best at every set.
Try doing 2 hard sets and 2 easier ones. Like for pull ups, try weighted pull ups and then the last 2 with no weight (or with less) @@waldenschmidt4626
@@waldenschmidt4626well im sure instead of doing that many sets you choose u could do 2-3 sets till failure per exersice and add other exersices like pullups or chin ups,and make sure to train abs too they are so important in strength,on other days you could do running and do squats with the weighted vest,if weighted squats become easy then do them very slow and controlled same with ither exersices like pull ups or push ups
You seem like you didn't even listen to the video? Ian explained it all. But here is my knowledge. If you seek strengt, do not do same group for 4-5 days after workout, do 3-6 sets at most and go till failure. @@waldenschmidt4626
@@waldenschmidt4626 Depends on your proximity to failure. If you only did 10 pushups but could have done another 10+ in that same set, you will build virtually no muscle at all. If you did 10 but could do 11 at maximum, then you will build muscle for a short period of time before you need to progressively overload in some capacity.
Esti o mare inspiratie! Initial ma simteam putin descurajat sa ma apuc de calistenice fiindca am 190cm si 80kg si ziceam ca poate mai astept sa imi fac masa musculara, dar dupa ce ti-am vazut video-urile, am fost foarte hyped sa ma apuc si eu. Am fost intr-un parc de calistenice din bucuresti si de atunci nu m-am mai oprit. Mult succes in continuare!
Ține-te de treabă, fii consistent și vor veni și rezultatele! De 5 luni de zile am renunțat la antrenamentul cu greutăți in favoarea exercițiilor cu greutatea corpului și pot spune că la 35 de ani sunt în cea mai bună formă fizică de până acum.
Ma bucur mult pentru tine! Nu planuiesc sa ma opresc anytime soon si pot zice si eu din propria experienta ca, calistenicele mi-au sporit foarte tare cresterea in masa musculara :)@@the.nutzz1
This man is real , he presented outside what he is in inside ❤. So lovely.
Full support brother ❤
I am 14 nd i ' m ur big fan dude ! I started bodyweight training by watching ur videos and now i combined gym+bodywieght and i went from 60 kgs to 67kgs in 1 year with good amount of muscle size increase and strength ! Thanks To You
I went from 60kg to 67 in 3 months
*With steroids@@ZAASTA179
Nu pot să cred ca ești din Moldova și știi română! Mă uit la tine de vreo juma de an și m-ai inspirat să mă reapuc de tracțiuni. Tot avansez cu câte o tracțiune pe lună. Momentan fac 6 dar sunt destul de gras am 100kg, trebuie să mai slăbesc! Mulțumesc pt inspirație! Tine-o tot așa!
Bravo tinereee!!❤
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I love your personality bro. You are very genuine. Thanks for the wisdom.
would love a video solely focusing on injury prevention exercises for your lowerback, wrists, knees etc. How you structure/progress them in your workouts and the wisdom behind it. Great video keep it up.
happy new year brother love your videos you are such a great inspiration i am 17 and my new years resolution is to master handstand mark my words till the end of the year i will perfect the art. Keep getting stronger boss💪💪
BROTHER YOU ARE A PROPER BEAST DONT LOSE HOPE I ALSO LIKE WHEN I SEE YOU TO DOING WEIGHTED PULL UPS GO FURTHER MAN 💪
Bro won the gold for genetics and he know how to take advantage of it, he’s a champion🤙🏼
love the new long form content. keep grinding bro and i will too!
Ian brother,u really have a strong grip over calisthenics knowledge
Hope to see more long form knowledge videos from you
Thanks brother
I have seen so many vids like this, but bro this was the best one so far. Nice job Ian. I got answers to every questions i had about calistenics in general. It really was the best knowledge giving video so far. Love your work tysm ❤
Ian Barseagle thanks you a lot for this video, I am 14 years at the moment and started training calisthenics from 13.From 55 kg I progressed to 67kg only watching your videos about knowledge.Guess who inspired me?Of course,you! I'll training in continue for my goal!Thanks so much!!
The Tank of Moldova aka Barseagle 🔥🦅
You're an inspiration to all of us , Brother
I'm 23 and I'll try to work by your advices
He is the only, One and only one motivation to start calisthenics
So much good knowledge in this video. Thank you for posting this, it’s made me realise why I’m hitting plateau and not seeing any progress. Much love
This is actually proper knowledge, it feels illegal to know this at my age, you should do a video of an actuall workout you do for strength.
You're great, love your stuff.
No way you're.... te urmaresc de ceva timp si pin amu nu am stiut ca esti moldovan!!
You are a beast at calisthenics... I love your videos, Doamne ajuta!!
you are 21 and twice the man i am hahaa !! im 45 years old and im actually in the best shape of my life righty now. i got a 50 second handstand hold now after 3 months back into calisthenics after 5 years off. i will not stop now. please do more long form videos
Ian keeping it real for the fans , thank you.
Thank you for this video and letting us get to know you. I am a big fan and look forward to more of you content. As a 61 year old I need all the secrets I can get to advance my training.
He finally started uploading 😮🎉
One of the most educational videos on UA-cam
You’ve helped me sooooooo much with this video, you have no idea how much this will help me, i REAAAAALLY appreciate you doing this for us. Thank you thank you
You did this progress despite of injury man appreciated 👍
Bro I am also 6'2 ft - 76kg and 19yrs going on your path .... Will set fire.
A video please on how you made your lower back stronger. Great channel by the way! 👊🏼
Thanks Ian, these things you say are gold.
Well grounded guy for this young age. Hope you will stay like this. I learn from you and i'm double the age 😅 thanks man!
This is a really nice video, everything seems to make sence. I love that he has that balkan self confidence and body language! This just seemed insanely friendly.
I am so grateful for someone like you Ian for this knowledge time to become my best self
Now i know that i'll be more stronger and gain more muscle, it really helped me, thank you Ian!
😮 you really shared truth. Now i am your fan. Coz i know its the truth i learned it by myself at 30y old. 1 month before from this day. I overtrained so much in history. Volume = i had gains but not strenght
Intensity = both!
Spaseba bolshoi Ian, i look forward to more of these insightful videos.
thanks Ian for your input. You are 100% correct. Now, time for you to share some of your piano performance .....use the digital piano behind you....
Nu îmi vine să cred că ești o parte și român
Ești puternic rău omule bravo💪
Ian thank you so much because of you i got inspired to train calisthenics and i am 13 years old i have always wanted to dozens of handstand pushups and weighted pullups and dips just like you
And can you plz share your workout routine with sets and reps in your next video
10:22. Close to failure, shouldn't do more than 2/3 sets in an exercise and you shouldn't do more than 2 exercises. Reason: due to fatigue, more sets/exercises don't allow progressive overload. Furthermore, the exercises should be significantly different; he doesn't elaborate beyond the plane of movement but says that a pull workout has a vertical pullup and horizontal row which is great, but doing a pullup followed by a lat pulldown is dumb because it's the same movement 13:00. Ian also re-emphasises that biceps are often the limiting factor in a pull workout and after 2-4 sets total, the biceps are fatigued to a point where progressive overload on subsequent lifts is impossible, regardless of 5-10 minutes rest. 14:26 Rest is important, suggests 5-10 minutes for compounds to not waste the next set. Progressive overload is necesary for muscle growth in Ian's opinion.
Please talk about the mental health of elite training. Like what it was like for you when weak start training, how you felt strong mentally but also depressions etc.
Ian, thanks for the help. Great English, too. As an English teacher I cannot help but give one tip to help you be clearer to your audience...I just think you used the word "impressive" 3 times, slightly incorrectly in this video. By definition that word is correct, but it really only has positive connotation. When describing someone doing something badly or incorrectly, I would use "astonishing" or "shocking", which can be both positive or negative, but usually negative. Or you could even say something like "I am/was dumbfounded", which only has a negative connotation.
Now I’m questioning my training set up and where to go with it so I can achieve the moves I wanna learn
My calisthenics idol. Don't stop when you are tired, stop when you are done.
I recently discovered your channel. I love it and I've subscribed. I'm new to calisthenics and I love how you simplified the information
Thank you very much big brother for your knowledge 🙏.I really needed it.
I can tell you already as a physical therapist that if you don't go for reps and instead just add intensity then your muscles will grow fast but most likely outgrow passive tissue like tendons. A lot of bodybuilder have exactly that problem because of massive muscle growth. You are super young. Its like telling you that smoking is bad now even though you don't know how the consequence feels. I wish you good luck but for everyone who wants to listen to this. Beware and realise that this is your only body and your only chance of healthyness when you become older. Try to train with a fitting and healthy dose. Take it slow and steady.
Don't worry man. Ian has taken a whole measure and seriousness on avoiding injuries while 100% intensity + failure, relating to form of the intended exercise, how many reps planned in each set, warmups, tendon tear from too high weights or intensity for low reps + to failure, etc. He also even spoken about a small injury he had months and months ago in his IG (instagram) story, where something in his arm *snapped when he was side pressured in arm wrestling, In approaching injuries, he has this principle where if he get injured, he knows that he did something wrong. So he tries to learn from the injury, find the best knowledge about it like having a call with someone better than him as how to get tendons stronger (getting these little golden nuggets), strengthens it like doing 'blood flow' in his workout, and maybe even apply those knowledge that is actually very important to his program, to avoid his atheletes or people out there to get injured. Doing all of that instead of just fixing the injury and move on so that he knows what he and also other people are really doing in training. I can tell you that he does these calls almost every week, trying to gain knowledge like how they do that thing, from atheletes particularly better than him, and having calls with the best atheletes he knows, weighted cali dudes, powerlifters, armwrestlers, etc.
Believe me or not but 4 months ago, I literally have no idea how everything in the fitness industry works, like you know I just do random stuff at training, watching hundreds of fitness videos making bare progress, well I was not so serious cuz of how uncertain they are. I started to gain knowledge from Ian (for free) and thanks to him, I made huge noticable progress and went from knowing nothing to knowing what i'm doing, even tho I was not even as *close* as the progress that Ian's atheletes made 💀. I gained almost all available knowledge from him and I absolutely respect how geniune and honest he is about everything he does and influence.
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I just came across this video
Although I watch your other stuff brother like muscle ups and others …. very impressive buddy !! 😊👍🏾
I agree!!! The same can be said about the front lever. I never thought the front lever would give me such a strong back soreness in every single part of my back because we are training holds and negatives. But the growth is unmatched 🙌🏻
Bratu, reasoningul tău vabshe top!
over training by definition means carrying on any more exercise than the precise amount required to stimulate muscle growth, most however seem to regard over training as only kinda negative, over training is much worse than that, it exactly what that militates against muscle growth, it's not wasted effort, it's "counter productive" - again it's exactly what that prevents you from growing.
--Mike Mentzer
Most informative video I have seen this this year!
Later, can you post a training session instructing how to apply this method of optimizing strength and muscle?
Thanks for the guide, I'll start today.
Thank you Ian
Bro plz made training videos for beginners in calisthenics. Love from India 🇮🇳
Mike Mentzer would have looked down fron heaven and smiled ❤😄
Congratulations Ian, you are a reference for the practice of calisthenics
Thank you so much for all your help and the inspiration
Resonates cause im living it right now. I started off a year and a half ago going 6x week and although I was overloading I got to a plateau. Now sometimes I skip an entire week of training and when I go back im able to overload at a higher intensity than you'd expect. Being natty means you need lots of rest especially if you're actually dialing up the intensity to like 11. My ego didn't want to accept this in the beginning year and I thought more training = more gains but its nonsense like Ian said. Try it out if you dont. Believe him you'll be shocked. However you will have to adjust your calories or pick up some cardio to offset the reduction in frequency.
Man this is a very good video, thanks for the help, I always forget the importance of rest between sets and I think I'm also overtraining some muscles sow thanks ❤
Ian is the reason i train the way i train.
I only focus on getting stronger weighted pull ups and dips and skills training and of course legs even though i hate it.
My body is perfect shape just doing few exercises. I used to train like a body builder and i had that ugly bodybuilder shape 🤮 calisthenics is the best thing for our body. Thanks champ
Amazing video thank you👏🏼 I’m 21, 6’2 65kg been training hard for 6/7 weeks, I wish I started training sooner looking at you being 21 and 30kg heavier in solid muscle is crazy😂💪🏼
Bro, U r jacked as hell 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Straight to the point, I hope this new format will be a success.
If you want big arms isolate. Alex leonidas (alpha destiny) has a 3 plate weighted pullup and his arms were 15". He also had a 800lb dl and 600 lbs squat. Bench 400lb. He focused on curls, push downs, extensions and got 17" arms and still growing.
The "spider physique" is caused by doing movements that target the back and chest and do not provide adequate stimulus to your arms. For example 5x5 and starting strength produce bad physiques with no arm isolation.
People who grow big arms from calisthenics frankly have good genetics where isolation is not necessary. For the average person isolate your arms instead of only relying on compunds only.
Lastly your biceps and triceps are not reaching failure in compounds as they are a SECONDARY mover not a primary mover. Hes right that reaching failure is important. Do that for your arms in addition to your back/chest.
Assalamualaikum my brother i loved the video and knowledge i am looking forward to see videos like this. My advice is make videos on muscle building through calisthenics and arm wrestling and please be good never lie god bless us all
Thank you for sharing this with us. Keep it up💪
Thank you bro for your knowledge 🙏 💯
Finelly the beast uploads and go back to UA-cam ❤💪💪
O quanto que eu esperei por esse vídeo não estar escrito. Muito obrigado Lan, sério de coração ❤
Você entende a língua dele ou você traduziu mano?
@@deivid6818 Eu traduzir na legenda
Thankgod your lower back pain was gone forever, i want to see your elder brother.
Thank you lan for such an amazing video and info , I just want to know one thing that " how to properly train till failure" cab you please make a dedicated video on this which will help to understand things better 😊
Holy shit my brother from moldova, i am a big fan of you and now to know that you are from moldova i am proud of being romanian
very good and informative with regards to anyone interested in getting stronger and better. suitable for all levels i believed. respect !!!
Proper English as well mate keep it up your amazing my g
Is not that getting stronger will get you big, is that getting big will get you stronger.