Description
Achieve your fitness goals with calisthenics—no weights, trainer or gym required
Gain strength, mobility, endurance, and flexibility using simple body movements and nothing more than your own weight. Calisthenics for Beginners provides an all-inclusive training plan that won’t require massive sacrifices to your time, energy, or wallet.
Power through three calisthenic workout programs that progress in technique and intensity as you build a comprehensive understanding of this approachable training method. Then, explore recovery techniques, plus guidelines for creating a workout routine that fits your personal goals and lifestyle. Calisthenics is the workout of choice for athletes of all fitness levels, from weekend walkers to professional sports stars.
Calisthenics for Beginners includes:
Training for all levels—Endlessly adjustable and customizable calisthenics workouts meet you where you are and serve your unique fitness goals.
Full-body workouts—This complete, efficient approach to fitness works your whole body with a series of simple movement patterns.
Variety, versatility, and fun—More than 35 dynamic exercises featuring the progressions, modifications, and variations you need to keep it interesting, challenging, and engaging.
The myth that getting fit requires a gym, a trainer, and even weights has been disproven—calisthenics is the physical conditioning way of the future.
Dawn Tharp –
A book that provides instruction on how and where to start calisthenics. Love it! Excited to get started! With this new journey!
iheartbooks –
I like a lot of the exercises, they are explained in a useful way, including variations and ways to avoid injury, and each comes with an illustration which also shows muscle groups most involved. Also the book doesnt have extraneous fillers such as ‘nutrition advice.’ It is all about exercise. Be aware, however, that some of the exercises DO require gym type equipment that most people dont have nor want to install, while weights are something everyone has or can use e.g. water bottles as replacement. So my suggestion for next edition of this useful guide is, cut any exercise not doable, say, in a small apartment, and do include weights in the 2-4 lb range.
Dino –
I choose this rating because comparing it to other books on calisthenics that am currently discovering it measures up nicely with a little room for improvement to explore the next steps within a complete study. Great book for beginners, give us enough room to realize success without being too easy.
Hapakid808 –
Easy to understand and a great beginner’s guide to calisthetics
D.E. Dyer –
Calisthenics is a great alternative or supplement to stereotypical resistance and some cardiorespiratory training methods. The author starts with a good discussion on goal setting, an essential component of any program. This is a user – friendly, simple, and unintimidating presentation with an easy to follow format. Illustrations are very helpful. Exercises and progression levels are appropriate and provide a good foundation for advanced practice. I especially liked his important discussion on recovery, a subject often overlooked. I highly recommend for beginners.