Calisthenics, prominently known as the ‘home gym’, incorporates only your bodyweight and gravity to exercise, effectively building functional strength and training jaw-dropping skills. However, feelings of ‘hitting your ceiling’ are very frequent, as the hobby doesn’t have as many progression points compared to a gym.
Instead of spamming different exercises to reach maximum potential, you could work smarter and get more visible progress in your new place at One Chuan Grove by using these 4 ways to amplify your workouts!
Add Weights
If your routine and exercises are beginning to feel easy, your brain stops trying to adapt. By adding moderately more pressure to your tendons and muscles, you can continue building muscle mass and endurance. You can use weights (or even make them) in many different ways, depending on what exercise you are doing (e.g., a school bag for push-ups), so all you need to do is be creative.
Try Harder Variations
Harder variations apply more force and physiological stress, and help you reach progressive overload quicker, meaning you can spend less time on a variation and gain similar results to the easier variation that you could be doing for a long time. Aside from that, harder variations isolate or even use different muscle groups, allowing you to focus on different points in a much more focused way.
Slow Down Exercises
Slowing down your exercises allows much more tension in the overall body and mind, rather than fast-paced sets which can kill valuable time and put pressure on your muscles and tendons. Also, avoid unnecessary bouncing, condition yourself to not skip, and pause at the hardest parts in every exercise to maximize gains in strength and endurance.
Use Accessories
Resistance bands, parallettes, and gymnastics rings are some examples of accessories. This equipment can allow for a greater range of motion and challenge joint stability, overall body control, force, and balance. You can even use these tools to accompany the progression of harder skills, training overall stimulation even more.
