I have cancelled my gym membership. I run a fitness blog, yet currently I have no access to a gym.

Does this mean I’m giving up with fitness and making gains? No way (not about that mediocre lifestyle).

Instead, I have decided to shift my focus back to calisthenics – for now I have reached my life goal of deadlifting 5 plates (220kg), and honestly I currently do not have much motivation to pursue anything else gym-wise. Calisthenics opens up a new set of challenges for me to become an absolute beast with my body.

Now a lot of you are probably thinking how on Earth I am going to build muscle – you need weights to build muscle, right? No, and let me explain why:

Your muscles adapt to stress. It does not matter the source of the stress – whether from weights or bodyweight, as long as you put a high enough intensity of stress on your muscles they will adapt and grow.

The second question I imagine you have is that if you can already do more than 20 pushups it gets pointless as it becomes endurance – that is true… but can you do a one-arm pushup, muscle-up, or human flag?

 
I can deadlift 220kg, yet cannot even do 4 muscle-ups. This just goes to show how calisthenics can stack up against weights.

So yeah, time to turn from gym beast to bodyweight beast!

By the way, this does not mean I will never return to going to the gym… I still absolutely love it and fully intend to hit that 140kg bench press!

Share this post if you want me to talk about some bodyweight progressions next!

-Mike

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