Fitness. The prospect of spending months at home with all the gyms closed has made me think now's the time to actually take fitness seriously and train hard at home with bodyweight exercises and calisthenics. Also writing songs too.
One of my many projects is taking the motor from an old battery-powered mower a neighbor gave away using it as a generator and hooking it to the exercise bike and some batteries (actually the batteries from the mower, since they turned out to be fine). Want to watch TV, play a game, etc? Better get pedaling. :)
That's what I've started doing with a few little changes. It's a killer but I'm hoping it'll pay off. It seems to hit the right spots. I've also found the Minus The Gym guy on Youtube useful - I got a dip station a few days ago based on his video showing 15 exercises you can use it for [1].
Wound up running across (har) the FitOn[0] app/website, which is a fitness site with a lot of good videos. They're free to watch, paying for "premium" gets you better music and diet plans.
Not affiliated with them, just very happy with their videos.
* The Reddit bodyweight fitness Recommended Routine (RR) [1]
* Minus the Gym [2]
* Tao Physique [3]
They're all quite similar (which is good). Watching the second made me replace the RR's pulling progression with exercises using a dip station (cost £35 on Amazon), and the third shows a progression for handstand pressups and glutes.
Also, I switched the order of the RR exercises to be more like supersets based on the advice of the second link, so instead of doing pairs of exercises with rests in between each, I now do 8 types of exercise with a rest at the end before doing another 3 sets (so 4 sets in total). That seems a better use of time. This is the order of progressions I'll try in my next workout:
1. Press ups
2. Squats
3. Rows
4. Core
5. Dips
6. Glutes
7. Handstand pressups
8. Pull ups
Anyway the Reddit crowd know way more than I do so I'd definitely check that out.
There’s a video from athlean x “the perfect home workout” [0], which I tried a couple of times now. I didn’t expect me to be that sore even after months of regular gym.
That's been slated on Reddit [1] (for whatever that's worth). From my research on strength training, for muscle gain you need to be doing 6-12 reps for a muscle group then letting it rest before doing another few sets. The Athleanx workout seems more like circuit training. I'd imagine it's better for cardio (but I'm certainly no expert).
FitnessFaq (very good form and structure)
Calisthenicmovement (same as above. Only downside is that their 'beginner` routines are more like intermediate)
If you are looking to mobility I would recommend Tom Merric
