This is facts. The fundamentals are always important, and perfecting the basics will always carry over to skill work, as it requires posture, form, etc.
I love that everything you teach seems attainable. I feel like I can do it. That's worth it's weight in gold. My kids like to flip through your Calisthenics for Beginners book. They think it's fun!
lol, as I sometimes feel I need to remind my clients, "remember guys, this stuff is supposed to be fun." Challenging? yes Difficult at times? for sure but certainly attainable and enjoyable nonetheless
I love your philosophy. Training /exercise should never result in injury; it should build you up safely. Playing sport is another matter entirely, but this is about training. Thank you for all your work in sharing these videos.
I agree Chris. Some years ago I realize that sport and fitness are two very separate things and in some cases completely opposite from one another. I should make a video on that. stay tuned!
Amazing video as Always Matt! Love how you covered the concept up and you're right. Strength and work capacity should be our first and foremost priority before been trying Skill training. Also love how you covered Tension, Stability,control and Finisher concepts regarding stimulus for muscle and strength.
I found the skill work puts LOT of stress on the tendons and joints. Where the basics HIT the muscles harder. Just my personal experience there though. I can't talk for everybody! I'm more of a results guy. I want to be able to keep working out every week without injuries and get my strength and physique to where I want it. And as quickly as possible. So, I agree with the stance here as like anything else. The basics work and have been proven time and time again over the course of many years of people using them. Same with Martial Arts. A jump spinning hook kick looks really cool. But that roundhouse kick to the leg will will always out land it and be more effective lol
Hey Matt, Bought and read your GSC book. I absolutely love the simplicity, but I do have one question just to see if I'm understanding correctly: When doing, let's say a pushing exercise, I should be looking to "inject" the necessary tension into the working muscle to hit "failure" (which I understand is actually 2-3 reps from true failure with a few exceptions) in about 8-10 reps for anywhere from 2-6 sets? Am I understanding that correctly? You have several progressions in each chapter, so I was wondering if I should be sticking to one of those progressions or just focusing on the necessary tension to drive the fatigue. Thanks in advance!
I agree with you, Matt. My training includes some exercises that helps me unlock some of the skills that I’m interested in, but I no longer train for skills. Nowadays my training consists of only the basics... and a lot of iso.
Took me a long time to realize that what I thought was a minimalistic approach was actually a simple approach, which is much more practical and potent.
@@RedDeltaProject I feel like exercises like muscle ups and flags are great, if you can do them. But they are definitely skills you must practice. I like the foundational exercises. Plus, with all my aches and pains, those exercises would probably do me more harm than good!
From my experience with skill training along with weighted basics and weighted low level skill work, skill training mostly helps with strength. Like it gets you very strong, especially with statics like planche and levers. While it does help with muscle, it's mostly just pure strength and not as much muscle. Ofc if you're high enough in level, these skills can become basics and you can gear it more for muscle building with the reps and whatnot, but yeah I'd agree that generally basics are easier for muscle building.
I remember one video talking about "jacked prisoners". (It might have been one your videos). He said prisoners don't do alot of flashy moves but they will out rep and out set you any day. Great video once again.
People always want to do the cool stuff they see on social media but never really want to put the work and effort into getting it. They spend more time searching and watching video after video instead getting started on building the foundation to work their way up to the skill they want.
Hey Matt, How can we track progress for visual ? Would like know if my bicep is growing or not. Tired off looking in the mirror and not sure if anything is happening.
Results should be pretty self evident, however, keep in mind that body image and size is somewhat transient and it's always changing to some degree even on an hourly basis. Think of how you look with a pump vs how you look first thign in the morning. So simple things like a tape measure cane helpful, or even how clothes are fitting over certain areas of the body like in the back.
I don’t know if you have ever noticed that people that train high level skills and in particular planche tend to get a very bad posture and they get more injuries!
I've noticed that all forms of training tend to invite their own imbalances and issues when one focus a bit too much on them without other disciplines to round out the approaches.
For sure! Most things in fitness are not nearly as necessary as we are often lead to believe, which means we have so much more freedom to do what we want, just because we want to do it
Great video. Please tell me that wasn't your first attempt at a muscle up? I have been training it for the best part of a year and mine isn't as clean as that 🤣
The "advance moves" that indeed look impressive are also not my thing, it´s more suited to extroverted show off types, I really have nothing to gain wasting my time with those moves... Why would I wanna do the human flag for example? It just doesn´t make sense to other than showing off. The only advanced move I am working to achieve is the muscle up for the days you are working back and chest.
I am not an extroverted person and i do include skills as muscle ups, front lever and planche variation in my workout. However I dont do those shirtless in public. I use those moves as goals/motivation like someone who would aim for 225lbs bench press for exemple.
I'm very introverted and those skills motivate me to train. I'm not sure why, but they do. And i won't go and do those moves in public. So that can't be the reason why it motivates me.
@@stauffap same here. For me I like working towards something like achieving a muscle up. This is so much more rewarding than just increasing the number of pull ups or adding weight. Even the process of learning the skill is fun and addictive!
This is facts. The fundamentals are always important, and perfecting the basics will always carry over to skill work, as it requires posture, form, etc.
I agree, and that’s why 90% of my workouts consist, of various push-ups, pull-ups, dips, and inverted rows. (For years)
I love that everything you teach seems attainable. I feel like I can do it. That's worth it's weight in gold.
My kids like to flip through your Calisthenics for Beginners book. They think it's fun!
lol, as I sometimes feel I need to remind my clients, "remember guys, this stuff is supposed to be fun."
Challenging? yes
Difficult at times? for sure
but certainly attainable and enjoyable nonetheless
I love your philosophy. Training /exercise should never result in injury; it should build you up safely. Playing sport is another matter entirely, but this is about training. Thank you for all your work in sharing these videos.
I agree Chris. Some years ago I realize that sport and fitness are two very separate things and in some cases completely opposite from one another. I should make a video on that. stay tuned!
This guys three exercise routine (pull-ups, pushups and Bulgarian split-squats) is super effective.
Amazing video as Always Matt! Love how you covered the concept up and you're right. Strength and work capacity should be our first and foremost priority before been trying Skill training. Also love how you covered Tension, Stability,control and Finisher concepts regarding stimulus for muscle and strength.
I found the skill work puts LOT of stress on the tendons and joints. Where the basics HIT the muscles harder. Just my personal experience there though. I can't talk for everybody! I'm more of a results guy. I want to be able to keep working out every week without injuries and get my strength and physique to where I want it. And as quickly as possible. So, I agree with the stance here as like anything else. The basics work and have been proven time and time again over the course of many years of people using them. Same with Martial Arts. A jump spinning hook kick looks really cool. But that roundhouse kick to the leg will will always out land it and be more effective lol
Hey Matt,
Bought and read your GSC book. I absolutely love the simplicity, but I do have one question just to see if I'm understanding correctly: When doing, let's say a pushing exercise, I should be looking to "inject" the necessary tension into the working muscle to hit "failure" (which I understand is actually 2-3 reps from true failure with a few exceptions) in about 8-10 reps for anywhere from 2-6 sets? Am I understanding that correctly? You have several progressions in each chapter, so I was wondering if I should be sticking to one of those progressions or just focusing on the necessary tension to drive the fatigue. Thanks in advance!
It takes alot of time to really master the muscle mind connection and building up the tension in the muscles, so stick with the basic
Loving the videos Matt and your outlook on strength/ fitness, isometrics etc is inspiring and full of BS, thank you, stay safe 😀 👍
Can you do one video on the impact on joints from calisthenics and weights .I mean what is more safe in the long run ?
That' s a great idea! Look for it soon!
I second that.
I agree with you, Matt. My training includes some exercises that helps me unlock some of the skills that I’m interested in, but I no longer train for skills. Nowadays my training consists of only the basics... and a lot of iso.
Nothing more basic than the iso training. It's as raw as you can get!
The beauty is in its simplicity.
Took me a long time to realize that what I thought was a minimalistic approach was actually a simple approach, which is much more practical and potent.
@@RedDeltaProject I feel like exercises like muscle ups and flags are great, if you can do them. But they are definitely skills you must practice. I like the foundational exercises. Plus, with all my aches and pains, those exercises would probably do me more harm than good!
From my experience with skill training along with weighted basics and weighted low level skill work, skill training mostly helps with strength. Like it gets you very strong, especially with statics like planche and levers. While it does help with muscle, it's mostly just pure strength and not as much muscle. Ofc if you're high enough in level, these skills can become basics and you can gear it more for muscle building with the reps and whatnot, but yeah I'd agree that generally basics are easier for muscle building.
You're awesome.
I remember one video talking about "jacked prisoners". (It might have been one your videos). He said prisoners don't do alot of flashy moves but they will out rep and out set you any day.
Great video once again.
Good point Darrell. That goes for most any athletic sport too. Mastering the fundamentals is the key to mastery itself.
People always want to do the cool stuff they see on social media but never really want to put the work and effort into getting it. They spend more time searching and watching video after video instead getting started on building the foundation to work their way up to the skill they want.
thank you so much for sharing all this awesome content
Glad you enjoy it, and thank you for watching!
very interesting to know!
as someone from moldova i can't not see the moldovan flag,do you have any type of relationship whit moldova?
Hey! This guy is very muscler and huge and he still does those skills
lol, Finally someone got it in the comments.
made my day
The foundations is what makes or breaks the house.
Good vid bro keep it up✌️
Thanks 💯
Hey Matt, How can we track progress for visual ? Would like know if my bicep is growing or not. Tired off looking in the mirror and not sure if anything is happening.
Results should be pretty self evident, however, keep in mind that body image and size is somewhat transient and it's always changing to some degree even on an hourly basis. Think of how you look with a pump vs how you look first thign in the morning.
So simple things like a tape measure cane helpful, or even how clothes are fitting over certain areas of the body like in the back.
Magnificent!
Preach it!
I don’t know if you have ever noticed that people that train high level skills and in particular planche tend to get a very bad posture and they get more injuries!
I've noticed that all forms of training tend to invite their own imbalances and issues when one focus a bit too much on them without other disciplines to round out the approaches.
Yeah, you don't need to, but I want to and that is also okey
For sure! Most things in fitness are not nearly as necessary as we are often lead to believe, which means we have so much more freedom to do what we want, just because we want to do it
WOW! The flag at 3:13 with blue, yellow, red, is the flag of Romania? I am from there :)). What is your relation with it? have a good day.
Flag of Moldova with the eagle and bulls head coat of arms.
Rumanian flag is the same colours.
Both very striking and attractive flags
Great video. Please tell me that wasn't your first attempt at a muscle up? I have been training it for the best part of a year and mine isn't as clean as that 🤣
That was pretty much about it. I think that was probably about my 3rd or fourth attempt at the movement
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The "advance moves" that indeed look impressive are also not my thing, it´s more suited to extroverted show off types, I really have nothing to gain wasting my time with those moves... Why would I wanna do the human flag for example? It just doesn´t make sense to other than showing off. The only advanced move I am working to achieve is the muscle up for the days you are working back and chest.
I am not an extroverted person and i do include skills as muscle ups, front lever and planche variation in my workout. However I dont do those shirtless in public. I use those moves as goals/motivation like someone who would aim for 225lbs bench press for exemple.
I'm very introverted and those skills motivate me to train. I'm not sure why, but they do. And i won't go and do those moves in public. So that can't be the reason why it motivates me.
@@stauffap same here. For me I like working towards something like achieving a muscle up. This is so much more rewarding than just increasing the number of pull ups or adding weight. Even the process of learning the skill is fun and addictive!
human flag do be pretty dope though
Facts
I see them as just two different things...
It's definitely true, but then you wouldn't have any cool party tricks, which is the main purpose of calisthenics anyways 😬