Beefy Calisthenics
Step-by-Step Guide to Building Muscle with Bodyweight Training
Daily Jay
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Table of Contents
What to Expect to Learn
BEFORE YOU START READING!
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Introduction
How do you imagine building strong, well-defined muscles? Do dumbbells, barbells, kettle weights, and pushing and pulling weights with cables in a crowded, noisy, unclean gym come to mind? It doesnt have to be that way. Instead, consider the impressive physiques of male Olympic gymnasts: well-shaped bodies from head to toe and sharply defined muscles but not excessive like some muscle-bound weightlifters builds.
The ideal body is not created by pumping iron; there is an easier, safer, better way without the gadgets, gimmicks, and risks of injury. You are in the right place to learn how to achieve the body of your dreams.
Long before fitness centers came into being, men who wanted to get strong have relied on a regimen of bodyweight exercisescalled calisthenicsto build muscle, become powerful, and create a natural-looking overall shape. The key for you to achieve the same results is to become functionally strong with bodyweight calisthenics training.
This book will give you the confidence to get started and keep going with enthusiasm as you see impressive improvements and feel stronger, fitter, and more toned every day.
Theres a chapter dedicated to nutrition that will give you guidance on carbs, proteins, and fats and will show how the right diet can help build muscles, while the wrong diet can actually lead to muscle loss. You will become knowledgeable about calories and the various diets that doand do nothelp you manage your weight and build lean muscle mass.
You will also learn how to develop the optimal workout routine to build your ideal body faster and easier than traditional, often painful, weightlifting. You will master the nine fundamental calisthenic movements that use your own bodyweight to strengthen your upper body, core, and lower body to ensure a full-body workout. Our 21-day workout plan will get you started and keep you on track every day for optimal results.
Cardiovascular exercise is an essential component of physical fitness and is credited with helping prevent heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and many other diseases. You will learn to select the right cardio routine and learn how long and how intense your cardio workout should be.
You will learn methods for measuring your progress as you try to maximize the results of practicing bodyweight calisthenic exercises. You will be taught the correct way to perform each exercise and how you can progress quickly, transitioning from beginner to intermediate sooner than you think.
Theres a comprehensive troubleshooting section with a Q&A to guide you through issues, problems, and challenges, concluding with a review of the myths and misconceptions that people make when trying to build muscles.
Yet, first, the book will begin with the science of muscle building so that you can understand why proven techniques, good nutrition, and healthy rest and sleep habits form the basis of building muscle and achieving your overall fitness goals.
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Chapter 1: The Science of Muscle Building
There is science behind building stronger, impressive muscles, and by following basic principles, you can start down a path that will lead to tangible, visible results. Knowledge is the key to your success in building a great physique as you grow measurably stronger and look and feel better.
Knowledge begins with understanding what muscle is, what its made of, how it builds, and how it deteriorates. As you will discover in this chapter, our bodies are designed to build muscle by creating tiny injuries to muscle fibers as you exercise, and these tears, at the cellular level, build new muscle tissue as they heal. But it is important to train correctly so that the correct amount of stress is placed on the muscle fibers.
The right kind and amount of rest and proper recovery time are also critical following each workout so that the muscles can heal and grow. The muscle-building process is also dependent on supplying your muscles, as well as the rest of your body, with the best kind of nutrition.
Is the Gym Really Necessary?
The short answer is, no, gyms arent necessary, especially not when you can use your own bodyweight to build muscle and get toned with calisthenic exercises. Its more than possible to skip the gym, weights, and machines and still get in great shape.
Further, gyms cost money, and unless you have a fitness center in your home or apartment building, getting to and from the gym takes time. Then, there's the crowding, all those people and too few weights and machines.
Take a good look at many of the guys pumping the big weights in your gym. You can hear them moaning, sighing, and often dropping the weights. Thats for your benefit, you know. These are narcissistic people who like to show-off. Is all that noise and drama necessary? Isn't it better to be able to concentrate on your own exercises, not theirs? As you will discover, a good calisthenics workout puts you into the zone of concentration without disturbing distractions.
The Natural Calisthenics Body
Now that you know you dont really need the gym, the next issue is what kind of muscles you want to build. You could purchase a home gym and do weightlifting at home. But why pay for weights when your own bodyweight will provide all the resistance you need for a natural calisthenics body? Look again at the heavy lifters and decide if that kind of bulked-up muscle mass is really what you want.