Calisthenics at the park
To supplement my program of heavy presses and pulls, I have been trying to train every angle my joints can manage to get into. From isometrics and pvc pipes for active stretching and high reps (~100 or so) to harder bodyweight skills like v-sit, back / front lever, handstands, hanging leg raises and pull throughs, dip work and some planche work. If I worked on these exercises alone they would not be so tough but I have been making fast progress on training some of these and more just once every other week. This last weekend I went to play at the park and got in 3 hours on Saturday and two hours on Sunday. I can almost raise myself into a flag from the bottom, maybe 3-5 degrees from it and I can perform a full hanging leg raise and pull through to a back lever. Everything else is in progress but I just test some skills and practice lots of shoulder work and leg work. Mostly I stick to easy skills that I can handle without much discomfort while pushing myself further each time. Training at the park for me since I have no set skill for a goal I just feel it out. After jumping or leg work my legs are tired so I move to an upper body movement. If I practice pulling I might go to pushing or back to legs again. When I get tired I switch, either from boredom or those muscles are tired. I always go to smaller movements when I am too tired or whenever I can to get more volume in. Shrugs in every single direction / position, half reps or partials, reps with more leverage, isometrics, and traveling either via 'shimmy' or another way other than walking(quadrupedal movement, someday on my hands only as in handstand, monkey bars / hanging, etc..).











