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@isop777 Thanks, it will be interesting to read.

@jc44 You are one of the tallest guys who reached a full planche, they should feature you on the Bar Giants page, I thought they'd already added you there. If you want to share something about your training journey it would be very useful for many people.

@naani She can bend the knees. Descending to straight arms is better, you can avoid relaxing the shoulder blades if that's a problem. Dead hangs can help if lat tightness is the problem, or using an overhand grip.

@isop777 Can you share something about your process over the years to achieve it? Congratulations, most of us will never get to this level unless very determined.

Are you too tall or heavy to reach advanced calisthenics moves? The answer is not so obvious, I've found that some moves previously thought impossible past a certain height/weight have been achieved by giants, I'll share some examples. Based on some replies I got in the comments, I'll point...

@vladtepes831 She is strong, though she should descend to straight arms for proper chin up form. :D

@cbsmel Good idea. To make good use of the guidelines it's also important to determine how much the various movements count for the volume of various muscles, in many exercises the load is distributed and there's not a muscle that works much harder than the others. For example pseudo planche...

@newbie1 Very cool stunts.

@vladtepes831 Thanks for the link!

@faintfuzzies The arm position looks like an elbow lever but the lack of stabbing the elbows into the hips makes it look like a bent arm planche, which is more badass.

@chickenbaltiriceandnaan For those who missed it in the comments but also an encouragement to watch it again since it was cool.

@chickenbaltiriceandnaan That was what inspired this thread, it was already in the original post. :D

@saminni I think you should edit some more context into the original post, like height, age and your starting strength level with weights and with the bodyweight exercises you tried first. It looks like you were already very strong and through hard work you got stronger and learned to apply...

The training montage from Rocky is famous for the straddle one arm pushups with a flared elbow at 0:50, and dragon flags appear in Rocky IV. In this Jackie Chan scene there is a pistol squat at 0:56. For cartoons and anime this scene from Avatar shows inverted situps, free handstand pushups on...

@isop777 Thanks.

@isop777 Can you edit in some context about your height, weight, starting age and level in the post? It's important since these significantly affect the progress rate. Not to take away anything from the achievement, which requires plenty of dedication at any height for everyone except the...