How to Stay Consistent, Overcoming Failure & My Top 3 Exercises - 1.5 Million Q&A 

Dan, you inspired me to do peruse this discipline and ultimately led me to doing this as a job. Cannot thank you enough for all your work over the years 🙏

thank you Daniel, downloaded your BBW and LL routines a few years ago (when I turned 72 years old), Now almost 75 y/o am doing weighted pullups and rows - 30 KG, Dips with - 40kg. Thanks again and Keep up the great work.

From your old days on the barbarians forum, till now, you have been an inspiration to watch. Much love.

68 this March, and going strong, thanks for the inspiration every day.

Thanks Daniel! I'm a 67 year old athlete active all my adult life but a novice Calisthenics participant. Found your channel a few months back and find the content very helpful. You know your subject matter and communicate well. You are thoughtful and open minded and generous especially with your long form content. The context it offers is unique in this area. I'm grateful for your digital education, introductions, and companionship. Congrats on your development! May your significant milestone be one of many to come!😅

As an old client of yours during you PT days, thanks for this video. Your success is well deserved and you bring alot of value and knowledge to the fitness youtube community!

Congrats Dan, you are not only prolific in your content creation but the quality of the content only gets better and better! You're the biggest inspiration on RU-vid to me!

@FITNESSFAQS You are "the man in the arena"...!! Thanks for all the education through the years... 👍👍

Thank you for answering my question: that all absolutely makes sense. You're a beast no matter what. Respect.

Love the PRs question. Like ok no performance PRs but obviously not noticed how jacked Daniel is looking at the moment. The hybrid thing is obviously working very well

Congratulations on this milestone! Thanks for all of your advice. I watch you often and have learned a lot. 🎉

You are the GOAT. Glad so many people are getting into calisthenics through you.

Thank you, Daniel! It was a very interesting and useful talk. I like your videos very much! Good job! ✊🏼

Thanks Dan, since 2018 you brought me out from being completely sedentary, I have been following you and you've been key to motivating me and giving me exercise ideas. I hope to continue seeing your content to the same top quality it has always been.

Hey Daniel, really liked your answer on how to deal with failure. You have a great channel congrats on the 1.5 mil! Cheers! 🥂

Really enjoyed this pod cast. Thank you

Congratulations Daniel! 🎉 Thank you so much for the meaningful talk ✌️

You’re really humble and I appreciate that!

Excellent motivating discussion, thank you.

Congratulations on 1.5M Subscribers!! I love your channel, thanks for all the help and information you have given out! I recently watched a lot of Tom Cruise movies and you look so much like him.

1.5m well deserved. I've been following your channel for nearly a decade and you've had a huge influence on my training. I even plucked up the courage to start a RU-vid channel of my own. Thanks for all your help over the years, here's to 2 million! 🎉

Huge Congrats on the 1.5 million subscribers, Daniel! You deserve it all the way! All the best from Vienna, brother!

By far this is one of the best and informative videos I've seen even though it's a Q&A! Love what you do Daniel, I've been a fan since 2016 and if it weren't up to you I wouldn't know hapf of the stuff i know when it comes to calisthenics. Keep it up and 2M is around the corner. 🙏

The seriousness and urge to be practical is that I get from your channel .. much respect and love to u ..and thanks a ton for making such informative content ❤

Congrats & well earned on the subs gained. Keep on winning- love the channel

Thanks for sharing your experience & inspiring approach!! 💪🏾💯

Thank you for every advice and efforts you give us. Greeting from Slovenija

7 years ago I have been following you and I inspired by you Daniel and i have been known from you too much Thnxxx bro...

That quote is awesome thanks for sharing💪

Second question, let’s go. Good answer, educate and empower, that’s evident in your work. It’s crazy to think about someone pulling up the Fitness FAQs page in 2100, maybe my grandson, and the depth and breadth of still applicable resources he will find is incredible to think about. Thanks Daniel!

Guns are looking s w o l e Kudos for making this QnA lengthy. Congrats on all your success, you've been a great inspiration and your videos a great help

Hi thanks for all the tips and ideas. ❤

Always been athletic, current jobs a firefighter, first started going to the gym at 29, switched to calisthenics at 30, already doing hspu, planches into handstands. You still have plenty of time!

Thank you Daniel for the advice! I am training for the front lever and I am stucked with the one leg fl for so long that I feel doubtful about myself, but now I get the point, everyone is different

I admire everything about you Daniel!

Thank you for your time, patience and knowledge 💪🏻

Great video and great books you mentioned. Man's Search for Meaning is truly Inspirational. Meditations, EVERYONE, could do with being more Stoic! I will now check out the body keeps the score !

Thanks for answering my question Daniel, very informative! Greetings from Belgium.

Really enjoyed this q and a- so many questions I wanted to ask were answered. As a guy in mid 50s , useful stuff about aging too.

Im a subscriber and I definitely liked this video! Congratulations Daniel.

super informative and interesting Q+A with a lot of non cookie cutter takes(never heard any other personalities say this about creatine and I feel the same way). congrats on 1.5M.

Daniel you're a legend! Greatings from Italy

Cheers mate.

Love this! Well done on the milestone! Question : do you do any sort of cardio routine? 😊 would you be able to make any videos discussing cardio and sports (e.g football, tennis, swimming etc)

Thanks for the years of fitness knowledge 💐 💪🏽

You taught me rings when you first started; thanks and congratulations!

It was a pleasure to watch, you came a long way Daniel

Fantastic video Daniel, i'll be repping for the over 40s

Daniel this video is gold!! Would love to see a video on how to save time and step away from minor details!! Would you perhaps one day go back to make changes to your older programs (Body by Rings, for example).

Nice quote brother. Have a healthy life. Much love from germany.

The google subtitles just killed me "You think about what gets you up in the morning, what adds meaning to your life, what is your purpose. And for me that's to educate and empower people to master color snacks" @ 2m30s. Sry didn't mean to subtract from you're awesome message. This just cracked me up and I wanted to feed the algo regardless.

Than you heaps mate!

You are a motivation to us all

I'm currently working through Calimove's workout (sorry I had to pick one!). But I've been following you and one other along the way too and you've been super super helpful. I'm in currently in limp -mode after my shoulder 'slipped' and made a muffled ripping sound on 3 separate occasions doing skin the cat, and the final slip happened doing a tuck planche. So I've had to stop most upper body work to be super cautious. I'm assuming I have damaged by rotator cuff so I'm working through the cuff strengthening workouts you've highlighted. It's really put my training back. And I will scared to try the skin the cats/planche again but i'll be going back in very gentle when I restart. Good luck to all and thanks for the masses of help, Daniel.

Congratulations!

Been following Dan for a while now. My No1 on the list of people I follow.

Last part is really good, I learnt a lot from this vid

Well done

Thank you

Another milestone achieved 🎉🎉🎉 Please get brawny king fitness on your podcast. He has written the best calisthenics book out there. He's a hidden gem in the calisthenics community.

You are awesome :*

Every fitness enthusiasts is a philosopher for sure

Seems great! Do you think to integrate subtitles maybe?

Why does left side of my body have more fat than my right side?

This are the books Daniels described. I already finished reading Man's search for meaning and it is outstanding. * Meditation by Marcus Aurelius. * Man's search for Meaning by Viktor E Frankl. * The body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk.

24:50 not surprised at all dan 😆

I really like those reading top 3. Man's search for meaning is in mine, too!!

Nice video,

Hey Daniel. Hope you can visit South Africa one day.

good, work out is good. healthy and fitness is goal, also to becomed strong. 💪💪💪

Daniel, Thank you so much for your videos. I’m sure you are helping us to be more motivated to stay healthy and in good shape. I have one question, in the part of your training schedule, what do you mean by split?

11:28 still looking more jacked than ever brother 💪🏼

funny you mention parkour, I started practicing parkour on jan and got into calisthenics due to the strength requirements as well

Fax

No, only success can teach you how to be successful.

Do you still stand by your stance on creatine for gymnasts/highly proficient calisthenics practitioners? Anecdotally, academically, peer reviewed you name it, we now have a substantial corpus of data supporting the fact that Creatine supplementation will always result in an ergogenic benefit for the athlete. More repetitions, faster more aggressive repetitions at that and also the increase in recovery cannot be overlooked... I am very surprised with your outlook on this! You're the man in any case brother, thank you for everything!

43:48 really strong message. I loved the quote and your comment on it. A source of motivation for sure.

3:52 what you should do is take it in a cycle for 1 mounth get the benefits of increased mussle mass and strenght and then stop lose the weight you gained feel great cause you feel light and pr

Wow

Do you have any tips for nerve elbow pain caused by training? Ther's nothing visible with the ultrasound so it's probably not a golf elbow.

Nice video, you are one of the rare good ones, keep going. But if you ever think about going into mental coaching I will drop you so fast you cant even imagine ;) Just a hint because thats where a lot of fitnessYT-guys end up.

I really want to excel at weighted dips and pullups. My favourite exercises. I'm at around 80kg in dips ATM. But pullups is hard to program. Trying to get my reps up so that I can start to train them weighted. Really feel confused about programming pullups, chinups and other neutral grip pulls.

I have to say I disagree with you about creatine for calisthenics, because creatine is shown to boost performance in all strength and explosiveness sports including relative strength like in sprinting for example. In sprinting it's all about relative strength and sprinters need to be very lean, yet creatine is one of the most used supplements by professional sprinters.

Great insights 👍 The only points in which I slightly disagree are your imo somewhat too bleak outlook for older men and the effort you have to put into maintaining your physique and strength, especially at a higher age. I'm 52 now and I've been training for over 35 years, hometraining as a minor not even counting. My parents got me my first gym membership for my 18th birthday in 1988, which, if I remember correctly, was about three years before you were born. (And I don't actually mean to sound quite so condescending😁). Now my self- perception may be distorted of course, but I do feel amazing and I'm very pleased with my strength, with how I look, but also with how little I have to do, in order to keep it that way (yet). Most likely, my body has been used to carrying this amount of muscle for so long (naturally, mind you. I've never taken PEDs or been on TRT), that it doesn't see any need to get rid of any of it any time soon, especially since all of my joints are also find. I believe the older you get, the greater the role your nutrition plays gets. Everyone has to find out his or her own specific nutritional needs. Adhering to some off-the-rack one-size-fits-all nutritional regime (I would never call it diet, because of all the stupid implications that word is loaded with) may serve a younger person, but not me anymore. So I agree: Intuitive eating is best. And this should also mean constantly looking out for food sources you haven't tried yet. I like to watch channels that quote newer nutritional studies. That way I came across cod liver, for example, which I believe has served me really well since then. Anyway, maybe I've just great genetics - not for being immensely huge or incredibly shredded, obviously, but for staying the way I am at a higher age. Or maybe I'm about to meet a sharp decline at age 60 (I don't think so, but who knows for sure) And of course my body, too, will turn to dust in a couple of decades (or sooner, if I'm unlucky). So I'll stop rambling now and just thank you for your great work. Please keep it up 👍

nice bro

Minimize the gap between feeling salty and taking action..... Is where I live.......

I'm 6'1 with longer torso relative to legs. Does that mean longer torsos and shorter legs is better for pushing compared with pulling?

Guys is 25kg weighted pull up 1rep max(with neutral grip) good for a 15 year old(I weigh 73kg) ?

You mention 30 reps before moving onto weighted dips and rows. What about weighted pullups? Thanks :)

what does it mean to be a scruncher when you wipe?

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What is falia?

I like the part if you can get 30 then move on to next strength gains

Your answer to the toilet paper roll what’s my favorite?😂

Whats sup

How can I keep bulk and shredded in the same time?

I got in recommended videos FitnessFAQs from 9 year ago. And you looked back then almost the same physically. I believe you do more various exercises, have better balance etc. But 9 years is enough to get to the Mr. Olympia. Are you on purpose not trying to get stronger and more muscular?

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. (regarding your hobby @24:52)

Meat does not directly mean you are sufficient with creatin, I am vegan and have no issues with creatin and I do not supplement.

Question is, did you get a 3rd date with the chick ? 😅