If anyone is reading this, I've pinned this comment because @StopTheDamnTape is the best pirate fitness channel you'll ever see. You will learn secret trainings, tavern worthy dance moves, and a vocabulary to make any common sailor jealous 🏴☠️🏴☠️
@@thestonecircle lmao haha thanks man that was a really nice thing of you to do!! … I also like “best pirate fitness” like this is a common and acknowledged sub section of fitness hahahahaha. There better not be any others, I’ll make them walk the plank.
@@thestonecircle Thanks for asking. Well, at least it didn't leave me totally incapacitated as you will see in my upcoming short 😄But seriously, all in all, and certain (known) medical issues of our youngest son aside, it was a very nice vacation. We met and had dinner twice with our oldest son and his girlfriend . So it weren't just cold and rainy days on the baltic sea, but also a (partial) family reunion ☺
I've cut my training down to doing just 4 exercises and it's working. I've built more muscle after I hit a plateau in my training. I train only 3 x a week. Monday Wednesday friday. On the morning of those days I do sprint training for 20 minutes. The fat loss from sprinting is crazy. In the afternoon of those days I do 5 x 5 trap bar deadlifts and 5 sets to failure of dips. Then to finish the workout I will do 1 set to failure of farmers carry with the trap bar. That's it. Just 4 exercises. Deadlifts, dips, farmers carry and sprinting. It's amazing the results you get from cutting out excess exercises. I know some people will think that's not a complete routine but it covers all major muscle groups and is working for me so I'm going to stick with it. Great video dude 👍
That sounds like my kind of routine! Glad to hear it's been working for you, that combination has to make for a strong person who looks the part and can back it up!!
@@thestonecircle To be honest mate after being in a care home and losing my fiancee and daughter I went down to 84lbs at my lowest weight. I was at deaths door but I've managed to put a lot of weight on in 18 months of non stop eating and I'm now 196lbs. I find simplifying my workouts gets me the most results. If I can just zone in and get in a place to just push myself to the absolute limit doing those 4 exercises that should keep in reasonable shape. I really appreciate your channel bud. You can tell you are a very genuine person who loves what he's doing who always replies back to people. If only the world had more people like you it would be a far better place. Really appreciate you dude. Thanks again.
@staytrue5307 dang that's tough sorry you had to go through that, it's good to hear you've made it back though 18 months is a good long while to stay committed! There's something really nice about the simplicity, just going into it giving all you can, just raw effort some of my favorite workouts are like that. I really appreciate that, I'm just hoping to continue making videos that I think are cool, so far it's been nice to discover a lot of other people thing the same things are cool haha. Thanks for being here!
That's so interesting, I've started to get into sandbag and stone lifting because of your videos, and I was doing calisthenics circuits on the side to take care of the muscles that weren't being properly worked. And now I've just seen this video, I had no idea you were doing calisthenics circuits. A program centered around sandbag/stone lifting and calisthenics circuits seems to be the most financially accessible / time efficient setup for training at home.
Definitely the best financially accessible option. It works very well for people who don’t have the time or access to a gym. I did CrossFit and realized that I don’t have time for the classes as I have to be at work very early and get off later than the last class most days. Wasn’t able to train as much as I wanted to. Plus the membership is expensive at most gyms. So I had to do my own thing. Sandbags and calisthenics also work very well for people who have to travel for work as you can empty the bags and fill them up when you get to your destination. The absolute best option for people who want to train but have an unpredictable and crazy schedule in life! Always find a way!
pre-dawn hours, cold-brew ☕ and a new drop from Cody, reflecting on and discussing the benefits of calisthenics & circuits!! .... quality addition to the pre-training mindset this morning ... a barrage of great points! 🎯
Dang ....this is one of your best videos yet !!! There's better explanation here than in a couple of couple of calisthenics books in my collection. Also, it fills out the gaps in those programs quite nicely. Thanks for the high quality video.
Great video dude. A lot of people don’t realize you can use many factors for progressive overload. Reducing rest, different tempo, paused reps, even just stricter form all can apply. My grandpa, who is nearly 90, is in amazing shape and he’s trained like this for the last 30 or more years. He used to be a competitive bodybuilder but then migrated to a routine like this, and he obviously knows a thing or two about training. Keep up the good work!
Hey thank you! That's awesome I can see why this would be such a beneficial/healthy way to train moving into old age. All we can hope for really, just keep mobile till the end!
Thanks man! This is going to be useful for me. Because as I grow older I manage to lift heavier weights, but my calisthenics endurance keeps dropping. Thanks again for the help!
Hey thank you oldnatty!! If anyone can say how well this stuff works I think it would be you! I'm currently working on a book and Circuits will definitely be a part of it 🙂
I'm lost on where to start. I want to switch from my full gym to calisthenics and sandbag but I've never been good at making my own programs, I need guidance and direction on how to run a complete program incorporating the two.
sick timing. i started incorporating circuits into my training a few days ago, and have been looking for as much content on it as possible. congrats on 7k, cheif :)
Calisthenics noob here. 👋 This is, quite simply, one of the best calisthenics videos i have ever seen. You touch on literally everything and in such a great way. Plus the ideas and circuits people are commenting are great too.
Another great video!!! Ive used this style of calisthenics training for a while and find it really fun as well as an excellent workout!!! I think having fun in your workouts is a big factor in longevity!!! Keep up the amazing content!!!
I come back to watch this video quite often, although it does not have as high views as some of your sandbag and strength training videos (as of yet) I think this is probably one of the best videos you have made. Straight to the point, usable information covering a lot of ground. This video could be it's own book or if you add it to your calisthenics strength video and calisthenics hypertrophy video you can turn it into a complete calisthenics book for strength, hypertrophy, endurance, cardio...something minimalist that people can do in smaller spaces. I have a calisthenics book from 2009/10 which did really well because of "flashy" marketing but doesn't come close to the information that was covered in this video.
Hey man such a great video on calisthenics circuits . I am currently running your one sandbag routine and I'm loving it , i have a stretch i would describe it in the mid back almost constantly and feeling my posture has opened up and just generally stronger in a different way to any other training I've done before . Calisthenics has always been my favourite and i can honestly say i think sandbags are going to be an equal now for the rest of my days. What I'd really like is to combine these circuits with sandbags but i really feel these sandbag workouts the day after . I think adding the circuits now would eat in to my recovery too much , would love to know how you program sandbags and calisthenics with rest . All the best brother 👍 ❤
@danielprobets7635 hey thank you so much for the feedback!! That's so awesome you're running the program! I actually just got the voice over recorded and will start working on the footage soon for a new sandbag and calisthenics circuit program! If everything goes as planned it should be out in the next two weeks 🙂
Just did the first 10 down cardio circuit example. It absolutely floored me, took me 30 minutes but my god it was hard. I probably won’t ditch lifting weights altogether but will add these in twice a week
My base of calisthenics workout is emom and i really love this it builds some mass and a lot of resistance to fatigue optimal for inproving form and number of reps of the movements i include. Overall great way of training. Just lacks in terms of building strenght
Nice video bro!! I'm training for an endurance championship and have incorporated circuits to improve my cardio and support fatigue. thank you for the informations
You mentioned that you could improve your form on the pike pushups. One cue that was a game changer for me was at the top to arch your tail bone and bring your heart toward the platform. It sounds strange because we don't really want an arched spine, but when you upside down it actually makes your spine flat instead of rounded. Bringing your heart toward the platform brings the arms into alignment. Don't make it staccato but find the groove. Another consideration is to use paralletes b/c the added grip makes you tighter and lighter. Hope this helps.
Just happened to see your channel in my feed and excellent information! I do mostly circuit training now (only calisthenics/BW) and do the basics, dips, pullups, squats, pushups or sometimes i eliminate the squats. I also reverse the order of the circuit to keep it intense. I also enjoy doing just pullups and pushups for a workout, or dips/pushups or squats pushups. Another day I will combine the three pairs of exercises I mentioned for an entire circuit and hit it about 10-15 times. I prefer to rest little to get the heartrate up, sweat pouring and maximum pump. I also do sets of pullups/pushups (or dips)/pullups in one go, then it will be pushups (or dips)/pullups/pushups and I do this for several circuits. I also hit the heavy bag one day a week and that in itself is a full body workout.. I want to get back into rope climbing, did a lot in the military as well as the sandbag (not as heavy as yours lol. I do think if one is wrestling, Judo, etc that sandbag should be in the arsenal. I will research more of your videos, especially the one about weighted calisthenics. Haven't done for a while but want to see your input. Thank you for your information bro!
I have been doing the following 2 circuit training per week, (I do one of them on Monday and the other on Friday): On Monday I do 4 rounds at the max of reps, and on Friday I do 8 rounds at the 2/3 of the max of reps for each movement. The exercises I do are : 1 pull exercise (pullups , chinups) then one push exercise of push (dips, pushups) then one leg-raise for calves then one exercise like jumping squats , or jumping lunges , for the leg and as 5th exercise I do abs. I will try to skip the legs exercise, and put them on separate day, and see how it goes
Hey thank you 🙂 last vid on biceps did really well, and my sandbag Hypertrophy vid from a while back just passed 100k I think that's where most are coming from!
have you heard of dogcrapp training? you seem to give "alternative" set and rep schemes a go so it might be interesting to you. the rest pause thing works really well for calisthenics stuff weighted or unweighted (whatever lands you in that 8-12 sorta range)
Hey heck yeah! I've always thought it sounded really cool but I haven't ever given it a real honest try, mixing it with calisthenics sounds pretty awesome
So basically splitting the balanced workout into 2 parts would be more muscle building? I got a sandbag because of your videos, its brutal but awesome, thanks!
I kind of do this now, but in a bro split way, I'll do 4 different pushup variations to hit all angles and rest 30 seconds between each exercise and do a 2-3 min rest after each circuit, seems to be good for losing weight and good for recovery, maybe not so good for gaining muscle, but I still progressively overload it
I do Planche, One Leg Squat, Pullups, Dips, L-Sit Legraises every day! Every 4 day with one Set to failiure 3min. break between each. On the other days I do the sets in one row with grease the groove 1/3 of the max reps, 4 times a day. It works good sience 2Months with no break! Make progress every 8 to 12 days!
@@thestonecircle I start with knees under me, arms not stretched. Yet with swing I can hold it for just one secound, with streched arms (On a dip-bar). I do it very simular to Chris Hera. But I think it´s very easier on a dip-bar before you get on the ground.
I think it´s very good before you learn handstand. Because I done earlier pike-pushups for that. Than I can´t go forther With thease, because it don´t train the lower back so much as needed. Even the handstand itself don´t do this enough. But that´s the key to go in the handstand AND hold the free handstand, not so much the shoulder. Hope this helps many.
mines like this: 30- 15 ibs dumbell shoulder presses 30 seconds shadow boxing with 5ibs dumbells 10- pullups 10- dips 20- pushups 1 minute on the punching bag i do 10 reps of this.
I've been enjoying density as a way to get progressive overload, both for sandbags and calisthenics. But rather than get a fixed amoint of work and cram it into less and less time, I have a fixed time interval and try to get more work into it every time. My last sandbag to shoulder session was a 20 minute EMOM with two shoulders (obe per side) per minute, for instance. if I keep at it I think I can double the reps
@@thestonecircle dude, I got pinged about your reply while lying on the floor after testing my max. I'm still on the floor. 12 reps in one go, roughly 2.5 minutes of work. When my bag arrived in early February my first proper workout was this many reps broken up in doubles! I am heavier and feel more solid just as you say it does
Great work! One person who popularized the style of density training with a fixed time interval was Charles Staley; he called it Escalating Density Training (EDT). A proponent of the fixed work in less time, aka increasing work to rest ratio, was Ethan Reeve. Back in the day we would use a modified version of Reeve's approache to work toward "100 rep death marches". The idea is to start with a lot of sets of few reps, for example 10x10. Next workout decrease the sets by 1 which gives 11 or 12 reps for 9 sets. And repeat decreasing the sets until you have 100 reps in one set. The jumps can be a bit brutal so continue with the same amount of sets but get the work done in less time. Another helpful approach is to double your target number. So if you want to do 100 reps in 1 set you may start by doing 20 x 10. However, the way you did it worked well! 12 reps at once is impressive. Keep up the good work. Take what is useful and discard the rest.
@@mattbennett277 hey, thanks! I actually used escalating density accidentally for weighted pull ups once! Didn't know it was a thing, it just felt right. Went 5x3 > 4x4 > 3x5 > 5x4 > 4x5 > 3x6 > 5x5 > 4x6 > 3x7. It was a very productive time! All with my 24 kg kettlebell hanging from my waist. The total volume going down as the sets got harder helped me stay recovered, I think.
Haha hey 2 pullups is way easier to scale than none at all, you'll get those reps up in no time! Inverted rows and standard pusups can be a pretty tough one worth trying!
Do you think there's much of a difference between low sets, high reps and high sets, low reps, when it comes to high rep bodyweight training? Such as: 3x30 vs. 10x9? I feel like you get more quality reps in the lower rep range, and the higher rep range fatigues you quicker.
I definitely prefer the high sets low reps approach myself, because like you said you really can make each rep better. Every rep can be much more explosive that way. I think you could probably build a similar amount of muscle either way assuming you're pushing close enough to failure, but the low reps seem to work better for building power
Awesome way to train! I like using emom for skill based things, like a tuck front lever hold for 10 seconds one minute, bent arm plance for 10 seconds the next minute and repeat
Thank you! I've had this protein cereal thing I made nearly every morning for like 7 years now, lots of dried fruit and stuff it's good. Dinner is whatever my gf makes, but usually some kind of rice or pasta meal. Lately I've added a shake before bed because I'm trying to bulk up a bit. And thats it!
Could you explain what you mean on the balaceed circuits to break up the set. Say your doing a 10 down and at some point muscle fatigue sets in and you cant do the required reps, do you mean take a slight break in the set and then finish it or is it something else?
Hey good question. The main goal with the balanced circuits is to keep the muscles near failure, and maintain a steady pace at all times. If you're supposed to do a set of 7 as an example, it's better to do 4 reps of each exercise, then 3 of each exercise, rather than pausing to rest. That way you maintain that steady pace. If you were doing dips pullups pike pushups and rows, and you couldn't complete the full set of 7, rather than standing around resting it'd be better to do 4 dips 4 pullups 4 pike pushups 4 rows 3 dips 3 pullups 3 pike pushups 3 rows
@thestonecircle Oh I think I understand now. You're essentially breaking up that one set into something more manageable while still working your way down and staying near failure. I'll definitely have to give these a try. Thanks for the clarification 👍
I'm curious. if someone like me is just starting their training, does it matter what the circuit is made of? In my case, all my push ups are incline push ups due too lack of strength. My pull ups are band pull downs. I don't have the ability to do dips so band tricep pressdowns or something like that fill that spot. My lack of strength and stamina limit my current options. I can't do diamond push ups at all for example, so I'm almost in a pre-exercise state, even though I'm working out as often as I feel is safe for me to do so.
Hey you're right on! Takes most people many years to realize that, if they ever do. The exercise itself doesn't really matter, what matters is that it challenges you. Keep pushing beyond what you did last time and you will improve!
Okay, thanks man! Gonna give the cardio circuits a spin this eve. I'm doing my heavy lifting in the morning and want something different for the cardio side of things later on in the day.
@@thestonecircle bro hes over 40. Its wild. I used to watch all those guys when i first started my fitness. Then i became a burpee fanatic. Throw the pig egg in once in a while and my work capacity exploded
That's a good point I kinda skipped over. I would probably train the legs with straight sets of some kind, bodyweight or with weights once or twice a week
