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@joannayang Yeah you can do that, if the setup is comfortable.

@deborah123 Thank you! This gives me a ton of clarity.

@artislove It's personal preference, really as long as you you're not keeping the elbows in tight like a normal row, you'll be fine. Anywhere within the range of 45-90 works. Experiment with the angle that feels most comfortable and that you can feel your mid-back and rear delts being...

@shorty2u Noted.

Hey all, I've decided for my next masochistic calisthenics goal, I'd like to master the back lever reverse hyperextension, demonstrated in this link: Based on the challenging leverage, plus the combination of isometric and dynamic work, I suspect it may be the hardest pure bodyweight exercise...

@sunsurfkdt Just do a general mobility warm up to get blood flowing to your upper body. Some arm circles, shoulder CARs, that sort of thing.

@fearisnothing Yes that would work.

@dawn16 That's quite similar to my current regimen actually! I'm not a huge fan of pike presses so I tend to use a pair of heavy kettlebells and some strong bands as well. If you attempt the rings variation of facepulls, they are pretty similar, just with a different resistance curve.

@jerm Gotta respect the commitment

@fearisnothing Shrimp squats are more hip-dominant and have greater hip stabilization requirements than the pistol squat, which is more knee-dominant. As your torso is leaning further forward in a shrimp squat (compared to a pistol), the mechanics shift more of the workload to the hips. This is...

@dawn16 It sounds like you're covering your bases, front delts from HSPU, lateral delts from the lateral raises and rear delts from facepulls. So that seems pretty reasonable.

@jam_allday Haha that was certainly a generalization. I imagine the average viewer is not on the cusp of a maltese or iron cross, but I think for the beginner and intermediate progressions it's fairly simple.

@fearisnothing Full bridge is more of an isometric stretch/mobility exercise. It's good to train but many people would benefit from supplemental glute work as well. Pistol squats do not have much glute involvement, so I would not count them as supplemental volume. Nordics do involve the glutes...

@aus22 I didn't address PEDs in the post, as I felt it wasn't very relevant to the average reader. There are certainly calisthenics athletes using steroids and getting unrealistic results from crap training. If someone has huge delts with no apparent reason, it's suspicious. I've certainly run...

@boscoe9 All the other options I listed at the top will work fine.

@peersj54 Isometrics are coming back in vogue so it's a matter of time before the hype train comes.

@sonitude Yep. The thing I enjoy about isometrics is that you can progress at them for a very long time, so they really reward consistency and patience.

@raymo Don't worry about cheating on calisthenics, bodyweight training is just a tool like any other. The distinctions between bodyweight training and weight training are largely arbitrary, it's marketing. Weights and resistance bands are very convenient, if you have access to them you may as...

@joshdk Yes, there probably is a misunderstanding.

@elijahangel Thank you! Most of the exercises in the sidebar and wiki are either the core exercises or the static skills like handstands, planches, etc. I felt that there were some gaps in what was listed, so I wanted to make something more comprehensive.