Should We Train Calisthenics To FAILURE? 

Glad you managed to pick up out of that, man! All of this ultimately must make us feel (and actually be) better 💪🏿

Cheers Jaxon!

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Many ways to skin a cat 😉

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The lord of the rings himself! Been a fan of your channel for the longest time so this means a lot man! 👊🏿

It is difficult to get our heads around, but the whole idea of training to failure is that you train until you literally cannot do any more. It takes a lot of discipline though. Discipline in that you truly have to go until you can't do any more, and also discipline to make sure you recover well (so sleeping eating and not training etc.) Definitely worth a try but to truly compare it, we need to measure results quite closely which is why I think it may not be for most...

Haha! I mean, I'm crazy happy with the ones we already have 😅

I've spoke with you on a Facebook calisthenics group before. I totally agree with you BTW ! I only started to get serious results from my training when i started taking my sets to complete failure. 2 to 3 sets max in one session and then my next push and pull session i do more volume like yourself, I find this helps me with recovery from the sessions where I go to complete failure

I think what you're both describing too is a real discipline in recovery. Often (especially with calisthenics) I see people doing too much - usually because they are trying to do every cali progression under the sun. if you guys are training to failure and seeing quality results then you guys are definitely recovering well and long may the gains continue 💪🏿 💪🏿 💪🏿 p.s. the time savings don't hurt either

@@baz9653 We have? for sure is possible, since i'm a member of a few. But i switched to gym training now, ofcourse i still do dips and pullups, got tired of training at home. Also only doing all my training weighted on rings and high volume really took a toll on my elbows and connective tissues. Also in gym, i can target certain ranges of motion. So after pullups i now do latpulldowns aswell but just half repping that end range motion, i'm super weak in the range for chest to bar pullups. chin over bar no issues, but if i wanna go higher im no where near the strength required. With just calisthenics that range is kinda hard to target unless using some kind of pulley system with counter weight to make me lighter. Also i've noticed i'm way more effecient with my time in the gym aswell, so workouts are about 30 mins shorter compared to at home with the same amount of exercises and sets. (less scrolling tiktok) Also have to option to do wide pullups, instead of just narrow ones. But i'm doing 6 days a week high intensity (kinda) i take an extra rest day if i feel like i need it, no volume work. So far no deloads needed, even while in an agressive deficit. Also started training legs again.

And that's the brilliance of it. It is clearly working for you so, you're 100% right to keep pushing 👊🏿 I'll say though that you must be recovering extremely well for it to continue to work, so send me your food and sleep plan 😅

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Far more efficient if you're time conscious!

Do higher intensity and train to failure but take more rest days

Good question, and as a general rule of thumb I would say 'yes'. ESPECIALLY for skill work where it is quality > everything else. Tech failure is a good target, instead of mech failure - but also make sure you're taking solid breaks between sets 👊🏿

I'm not familiar with Athlete Xero but I personally wouldn't recommend consistently going to absolutely failure every set so perhaps try only going to technical failure. Let me know how it goes, Adithya! 👊🏿

@@CaliToTheCrowd but the best part of the program is that it has more than 150+ bodyweight exercises most of which I had never known and the way he's structured the program along with weekly challenges is amazing. I recommend you checking out