Paul Wade - Explosive Calisthenics, Superhuman Power, Maximum Speed and Agility, Plus Combat-Ready Reflexes--Using Bodyweight-Only Methods

PRAISE FOR EXPLOSIVE CALISTHENICS

The first physical attribute we lose as we age is our ability to generate power. Close behind is the loss of skilled, coordinated movement. Both of these losses lead to frailty and devastating falls in old age. The fix is never to lose these abilities in the first place! Paul Wades Explosive Calisthenics is the best program for developing power and skilled movement I have seen. Just as with his previous two books, the progressions are masterful with no fancy equipment needed.

You dont have to achieve a full back flip or kip up to get HUGE benefit from mastering the early progressions. It doesnt matter if you are a 20-year old looking to push your power and agility to new heights or approaching middle age, trying to slow the hands of time. Do yourself a favor and get this amazing work. This book will be the gold standard for developing bodyweight power, skill, and agility.

CHRIS HARDY, D.O. MPH, CSCS, author, Strong Medicine

Martial arts supremacy is all about explosive power and speed, and you will possess both once youve mastered the hardcore exercises in Explosive Calisthenics . Take your solo training to a level you never even imagined with these teeth-gritting, heart-palpating exercisesfrom a master of the genre.

LOREN W. CHRISTENSEN, author of over 50 books, including Fighting Power: How to Develop Explosive Punches, Kicks, Blocks, and Grappling and Speed Training: How to Develop Your Maximum Speed for Martial Arts

Explosive Calisthenics by Paul Coach Wade is a masterfully constructed roadmap for the attainment of power, functional speed, and agility. The book is extreme in that only a small percentage of the population would be able or willing to fully take the challenge, but at the same time, brilliant in that the path proceeds methodically and progressively from relatively simple to extremely advanced, allowing a discretionary endpoint for each individual.

The book is also refreshingly raw. The exercises are all done using only bodyweight and little in the way of equipment. There are only five moves to master and yet each is a proverbial double-edge swordat the same time dangerous yet potentially transformative.

Take this on and I doubt you will ever again be satisfied with the mundane bench press or the other exercise machines found in the typical gym.

PATRICK ROTH, M.D., author of The End of Back Pain: Access Your Hidden Core to Heal Your Body, Chairman of Neurosurgery at Hackensack University Medical Center and the director of its neurosurgical residency training program.

Once again, Paul Coach Wade, inspires with a life-changing approach to fitness that relies only on the weight of ones body. In his comprehensive new book, Explosive Calisthenics , he presents how calisthenics can and should be taken to the next level. Starting as he always does, with history of the early practitioners of bodyweight training, Explosive Calisthenics explains the widely misunderstood difference between strength and power as perhaps the key theme. This crucial distinction is what defines truly functional exercise as a life-long endeavor that has been a fountain of youth since ancient times.

To that, Wade ties his dynamic calisthenics to popular disciplines including my own, martial artsdrawing on exercises specific to the combative arts, but applicable to any physical activity. Wade also includes basic jumps, rolls, and somersaults as key parts of the regimen. Correctly, Wade prefers not to define these as gymnastics but as whole-body explosive power and speed training. While this may not be for everyone at first, I would encourage the calisthenics-advanced non-gymnast, to give these explosive movements a try.

Of particular note to me as a long-time proponent of time-tested, more functional fitness training, I very much appreciated Wades discussion of developing the senses as a fundamental part of Explosive Calisthenics . As a professional, more traditional martial artist and Chen Taijiquan practitioner, development of the senses through exercises that utilize whole-body movement and stringent eye-hand-foot coordination practices, Wades presentation of total senses development as part of advanced calisthenics training is fantastic to see.

And lastly, Wades emphasis on solo training, which he explains so well, is something not to be over-looked. The importance of solo training not only builds true functional fitness, but as Wade describes, provides an inner strength and focus that spoke directly to me as a traditional martial artist. In my teachings Ive always maintained that relying on no one else or any apparatus other than your own body for core training is what truly separates the master from the student and from those who cant let go of psychological and physical baggage that holds them back, from those whom depend on nothing other their own strength. Wades discussion of this ageless wisdom is magnificent to see and is to me the heart and soul of Explosive Calisthenics .

STEPHAN BERWICK, author True Strength Yang

Explosive Calisthenics is an absolute Treasure Map for anybody looking to tear down their bodys athletic limitations. Who doesnt want to be able to kip to their feet from their back like a Bruce Lee? Or make a backflip look easy? Paul makes you want to put down the barbells, learn and practice these step-by-step progressions to mastering the most explosive and impressive body-weight movements. The best part is? You can become an absolute Beast in under an hour of practice a week. Way to go, Paul! AROO!

JOE DISTEFANO, Spartan Race, Director of Training & Creator of the Spartan SGX Certification

Explosive Calisthenics continues the epic saga of the Convict Conditioning opus, which has become a staple for any bodyweight training library. If youve applied all the incredible techniques taught in the first two books, youll be able to maximize your training with even more impressive moves. Coach Wade offers up a blueprint for pushing your workouts to a whole new level. Lots of books say they are taking things to a whole new levelthis one really does.

Where books one and two laid a strong foundation with exercises like muscle-ups and human flags, Explosive Calisthenics literally brings in the explosiveness by introducing flips and other power-based moves. With his usual step-by-step guides and clear instructions, Wade covers an extensive list of exercises with progressions and regressions that makes this book perfect for both beginners and advanced calisthenics enthusiasts. Holding true to the Dragon Door style, the pics are bold and easy to follow. Im inspired to go do some flips right now!

MIKE FITCH, creator, Global Bodyweight Training

Your body is the ultimate training tool. Paul Wade shows you how to transform your own body and turn it into a weapon! Ive taken these methods and applied them to the training of my athletes as well as my own training and the bottom line is that they work. The workouts and exercises deliver. They are powerful and results driven.