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@iroro1 If you only lack ankle mobility and not balance, you can try pistol squats on a descending slope or with something solid under the heel, or with a small counterweight, and reduce the slope or counterweight until your ankle mobility is good enough. The balance and strength for pistol...

@rvgirl42 Thank you, in the main examples I put some of the most extreme feats I've seen from giants so it's not surprising if they're on steroids, but is it true for all of them? Even Sebastiano Paitowschi at the time he held a full planche? The Bar Giants page shows several less heavy guys...

@shopgirl1503 Cool moves.

@valleygal Because I was failing to advance in reps more often so I thought it was a good time to stop, deload and change training focus.

@esterlyn Thanks, it was a max test so I tried to do the max. :D

@dawn16 Roids would not suffice for that strength, you would need nanomachines, son.

I was recently thinking about posting this, and since someone else made a post on pullups GTG today, I have decided to post my result too. A video of the reps before and after can be found at the bottom if you don't like walls of text. In the last few months I was sort of stalling with pull ups...

@amenradio Here is a 5'2/157cm guy dunking. That's shorter than world class calisthenics athletes like Ziolus and Emanuele Majeli and Rayan Onizuka who are 160cm/5'3. So a greater physical disadvantage is more unlikely to be overcome but it can be hard to determine the true limits, just like...

@2consider For hypertrophy there are many possible ways of increasing volume, which is more important than intensity in that case. High repetitions, if not absurdly high (probably more than 50 per set), when taken close to failure still work. Here are two good articles about this point...

@analystsareus I hope it removed some preconceived ideas.

@cchambone Regarding Batman, this is also cool.

@2consider His routine is good for hypertrophy because of the focus on volume, while not optimal for maximal strength because of the rep range but still good, the added muscle mass helps and the repetitions are not very far into the endurance only territory.

@serina1995 That's true, the highest levels shown here are very unlikely to be reached, but the purpose of this post is to show that the limits are higher than many people think, so maybe only someone gifted and on steroids can get a full planche at a height above 2m, but someone a bit shorter...

@smheelen Cool, weighted inverted situps with full pike compression.

@2consider That's a good point, but with almost straight arms it is still a late intermediate move, it should be quite harder than 3x12 archer pushups even after his 3x15 diamonds. Maybe when he answers we'll get a better idea of how he feels about his push vs pull.

@dawn16 I was mostly referring to the fact that he can do a front lever compared to 3x15 diamond pushups or 3 one arm pushups, which could be 2-3 levels of difference in the Overcoming Gravity charts depending on his OAPU form. The rotation itself depends on strength in rowing end range and...

@sisterbecky216 Well done with the progressive overload. Are you much better at pulling than pushing?

@dawn16 You can challenge your perception of your own limits and find what you are truly capable of.

@nibru And one finger handstand pushups.

@naani Her chin ups were still much better than Will Smith's kipping half pullups in I am Legend.