Calisthenics

Hi everyone, my name is Alessandro Ciorlano and I am 31 years old. I am Italian and I live in a small town where tranquility is the background. I am a personal trainer, specifically concerning calisthenics.

I’ve been into sports for the last nine years. It started with “Muay Thai” and slowly progressed into gym and calisthenics workouts. It all started with me being really overweight kid, I wasn’t one of these popular kids that has a ton of friends, I was lonely and when I discovered sports it just opened a new world for me, a world of peace.

I tend to aim to train up to five days as a minimum and anything more is just a bonus and considered an active rest day and only ever strategic so I am not overworking my body. Saying that the hours I train vary session to session depending whether I add calisthenics to it or not that could have me training anywhere from only one hour to nearly three.

I specialize in the following: MMA coach, fitness coach, strength and condition coach, calisthenics. I do private training sessions and small group training sessions. I am a well rounded individual who has over 16 years of experience.

We teach a wide variety of movements including hand balancing, calisthenics, gymnastics, circus arts and mobility. I personally love to teach the higher level skills like handstands, gymnastics rings and acrobatics.

I have been competing in freestyle and calisthenics, won a lot and of course and lost some as well. I was the National champion in freestyle 2016 and I was even the Scandinavian champion in 2017.

Hi, my name is Rob Gallagher. I strength train approximately four times a week, and I also do a daily mobility/movement practice. I like to vary my training, between weights, mobility, calisthenics.

I currently train six days a week and I usually still do something active during my ‘rest’ day. If I need more rest, I take it. I no longer isolate my chest or biceps for aesthetic reasons. I train my lower body with weights at the gym. I currently train staple calisthenics exercises such as pull-ups/dips outside and often add weights to make it more challenging.

I work as a personal trainer online, with my social media channels and part time as a training model. I’m also a professional Calisthenics athlete (body weight training) and I’ve been active in the sport for about 4,5 years now. I’m the Swedish and Nordic champion three years in a row.

On a typical day, I’ll start with a simple warm up, 20 minutes of calisthenics, 15 minutes of glute activations, 50 minutes of spinning (+1 song around 7 minutes long dedicated to an arm workout), and if I’m up for it/have time, a small set of abs/core movements.

I am an avid reader and in university I was exposed to a plethora of books. Amid them I found fitness books whose piquancy was bodyweight training.

I would like to invite you guys to check out CALISTHENICS. It’s a trendy fitness in my opinion, it’s a future exercise practice.

Life can sometimes be unpredictable, so if I get a bit busy and don’t find time to workout twice a day, so then I’ll focus more on my weight training or ill do bodyweight training exercises at home.

I was contemplating calisthenics, but my trainer was telling me I was too old to start and it was hard on joints.. and I should move on and admit my age..

My training consisted of only calisthenics to supplement all of the flips and tumbling I was doing.

Then things changed; from weight loss to professional field hockey, to this day where I love calisthenics more than burgers, swim like a mermaid, run faster than the old me, I am Happy.

I tend to do weights four to five days per week. I admire aspects from all disciplines and have taken parts from bodybuilding, calisthenics and yoga.

I fell in love with freestyle calisthenics and decided to make it a career. I started Barstarzz and from there I spread the passion to a bunch of my friends locally then eventually world wide through the power of Youtube.

Back in those days I loved “yang” style high volume and high intensity. These days I’m much healthier, happier AND LEANER when I’m combining “yin” style training with stress management techniques (yoga, pilates, calisthenics, power walking, infra red saunas).

After injuring my back at 21 I decided to become a personal trainer and learnt how to train without the need for weights. I began my journey into Calisthenics, the art of becoming strong using only your body as resistance.

My coach is the one who is taking care of my diet, but since I began to do calisthenics, Pro Wrestling and Muay Thay, I realized my eating has changed a lot. I used to eat badly; I had more fat than muscles, even though I’m thin.

I don’t really use weights, mainly just calisthenics and body weight training. I really focus on movement and constantly moving my whole body.

I started to become very interested in overall health and began to research nutrition and exercises. I started out slow with calisthenics and basic stretching, then advanced to yoga, pilates, long distance running, and weights. I loved how it made me feel and how well I sleep after a workout!

As I also like to do bodyweight training my friend Julian Schubert an I started to offer our @habitivity.de program for free. Right now, we are giving training 3 times a week on an Instagram-Live-video with our community and having three times a week a yoga course with one of our network trainers for our community.

I have been into sports for more than 14 years and I remember the thing which started my passion: My friends and I from university had a wager on who will have the best physic after summer. I have won and from that moment I knew that I want to achieve more in sports and in my life. I became a gold medalist in calisthenics and had a better strength than anybody with the same weight of 75 kilos.

A workout session is usually one to two hours long. I typically split my training into 3 days of strength and conditioning, for muscle hypotrophy and athletic performance, and 3 days of bodyweight/calisthenics, for functional strength and body awareness.

Fourteen years later through my strength training, calisthenics, martial arts, and functional fitness journey, I am incredibly happy with how far I’ve come and continue to grow.

I usually combine strength training with some other team sports. I like training in fitness rooms and especially in calisthenics parks. 

I like to implement a variety of different styles of training which includes, bodybuilding, calisthenics, yoga, gymnastics, and CrossFit.

I have a sort of predilection for gymnastics and bodyweight training in general, I really love the idea of training everywhere and in every condition, just with my body!

I want to continue working on my weak areas. I want to build up my chest and obliques and I want to get stronger. I’ve actually developed a real interest in calisthenics so I’m hoping to do more of that as well.

I’m training for 5+ years and started training at age 14~15 at Calisthenics and then after 1.5 half years there, I sign for a gym membership.

At the moment, I’m really enjoying higher intensity weight training, bodyweight training, and conditioning workouts. However, I have had the best muscle gains when incorporating a variety of isolation and compound movements, and including both high volume lifts, and and heavy weight lifts in a single workout.

Got to keep challenging your body; whether that’s going heavier, higher reps or other deviations of classic exercises – keep the muscle guessing and your brain. There’s nothing worse than turning up in the gym and just going through the motions. If that ever happens, shake it up, skip a day, go and do calisthenics, or take up that offer from your bro at CrossFit.

I’m passionate about bodyweight training. The great advantage is that you don’t need a gym and that you can train efficiently in the convenience of their own home.

It was after one of those injuries that I started experimenting with HIIT and bodyweight training. I was sick of spending so much of my day stuck in a gym and knew there had to be a more sustainable way to get—and stay—fit.

My goals have varied a lot from just basic lifting and strength training to calisthenics and nowadays, I mostly do functional training with free weights. I workout purely for my own pleasure and also to maintain my physique and, of course, I want to be stronger today than I was yesterday.

I have been training calisthenics for just under four years now. I have always been an active person, either outside skateboarding or running around outside with friends.

Transition to Bodyweight Training

People ask me all the time what I do to stay in shape, and they are usually surprised when I tell them I am exclusive to bodyweight training.

Wednesday- Calisthenics training

Hi! I’m Theo Lury. I’m a 23-year-old freelance personal trainer, specialising in calisthenics and bodyweight training.

My workplace is a gym called, BodyLabOne. I’ve got personal training and calisthenics classes in small groups. During whole summer, I try to do outdoor workouts in groups to motivate each other.

When it comes to training, I always listen to my body. It’s either a full body BODYWEIGHT/CALISTHENICS workout, or weights, or cardio. It all depends on how I feel that day. It could be a gym workout or an outdoor workout, weights, classic splits or full body.

Kettlebells have always been and probably will always be my favorite. I work with kettlebells almost every day whether I’m working on strength skills, conditioning or mobility. I also have been making calisthenics more of a priority.

A good week of training needs to consist of: Movement, yoga, capoeira and calisthenics. Each one of these works on the connection between the body and mind, improving functionality in day-to-day life.

I started with calisthenics (bodyweight training) for about two years and that really gave me a lot of strength as well as muscle mass.

So after the birth of my daughter I decided to start to only do bodyweight training!!!

Then, on the next year I found calisthenics and it’s so much fun plus I can see better improvement in terms of muscles mass, strength and coordination compare to weight training.

After college, I moved to LA with little money to join a gym, so I predominantly exercised outside: Calisthenics, bodyweight, biking, hiking, and trail running. Since then I’ve joined Crossfit but I maintain my outdoor lifestyle.