savvy41716
New member
Hi guys 
This is my first post on this sub, but I have been reading it regularly for advice on my own training.
I just wanted to show you guys how I have progressed in the past year of exclusively bodyweight training. For reference:
Before: 1.83m 71kg 16 years old After: 1.86m 75kg 17 years old
I've always been a fit person, having played sports like Field hockey, football (Soccer) my whole life, but I always lacked upper body strength. At the start of my journey, I could only do 5 dodgy form push ups, and couldn't even do a pull up.
I started how most do, doing push ups, australian pull ups/inverted rows, pull up negatives, that sort of thing. I always had strong legs because I was a leg day addict in the past, so I learnt the pistol squat pretty quickly, within a month.
I did progress pretty well in the first 3 months, got up to 8 pull ups, 13 dips approximately, learnt the L-sit, but lost motivation pretty quickly because I wrongly believed that I was 'too good'.
Yes
I just said that.
But around january of this year I got back into training hard, running A PPL, PPC split every week (Push , Pull, Legs) (Push, Pull, Cardio).
Things were going well, and then Covid came and kinda messed things up, but I saw this as an opportunity to push things and work even harder. I invested in a pair of gymnastics rings and saw this as a chance to take things to a new level. Like most starting out on rings, I struggled majorly, but I eventually adapted, and am now performing some sort of advanced exercises.
I did find it difficult to progress on statics mainly because of my height, but I managed to make some decent progress
To show you how I have progressed overall:
Start:
0 pull ups
5 Push ups
1 dip
No-sit
0 pistol squats
Absolutely 0 iron cross
Absolutely 0 Back lever
1 year later:
1rm 35kg weighted pull up
1 RTO archer push up each side
1rm 48kg weighted dip
Long af l-sit
5 reps 22kg weighted pistol squat each leg
Ring assisted iron cross 5 seconds
Straddle Back lever 7 seconds
If you've read all of this, you have no life, just kidding haha, but thank you if you have read all of this. This sub-reddit has helped me immensely, especially advice from @fromgenesistorevelation ,
@deborah123, and countless others.
I really hope this has motivated you that you can change yourself and your body immensely in just a year. I will attach a link to my transformation on YouTube if you'd like to take a look at it
My diet:
Breakfast: Oats boiled in water with chia seeds, mixed frozen berries, cinnamon (sometimes might add a scoop of protein powder if I feel like it but I usually don't)
Lunch: Usually a ham or chicken sandwich
Dinner: A one-pan meal of a protein source (usually prawns, chicken, ham, lean beef), potatoes, carrots, lentils or chickpeas or another vegan protein source, mixed in with vegetable stock and tomato puree.
Snack (Usually late at night or some time during the day):
One of: Popcorn, greek yoghurt, protein bar, my homemade ice cream, homemade healthy brownies.
I eat clean most of the time, and cook pretty much all my meals myself, using largely low calorie ingredients, so I would use little olive oil, wouldn't use added sugar etc.
For my 'unhealthy meals' like homemade ice cream, I would use low-cal ingredients to create something like a litre of ice cream for 400 calories or something like that.
Thanks guys x
This is my first post on this sub, but I have been reading it regularly for advice on my own training.
I just wanted to show you guys how I have progressed in the past year of exclusively bodyweight training. For reference:
Before: 1.83m 71kg 16 years old After: 1.86m 75kg 17 years old
I've always been a fit person, having played sports like Field hockey, football (Soccer) my whole life, but I always lacked upper body strength. At the start of my journey, I could only do 5 dodgy form push ups, and couldn't even do a pull up.
I started how most do, doing push ups, australian pull ups/inverted rows, pull up negatives, that sort of thing. I always had strong legs because I was a leg day addict in the past, so I learnt the pistol squat pretty quickly, within a month.
I did progress pretty well in the first 3 months, got up to 8 pull ups, 13 dips approximately, learnt the L-sit, but lost motivation pretty quickly because I wrongly believed that I was 'too good'.
Yes
I just said that.
But around january of this year I got back into training hard, running A PPL, PPC split every week (Push , Pull, Legs) (Push, Pull, Cardio).
Things were going well, and then Covid came and kinda messed things up, but I saw this as an opportunity to push things and work even harder. I invested in a pair of gymnastics rings and saw this as a chance to take things to a new level. Like most starting out on rings, I struggled majorly, but I eventually adapted, and am now performing some sort of advanced exercises.
I did find it difficult to progress on statics mainly because of my height, but I managed to make some decent progress
To show you how I have progressed overall:
Start:
0 pull ups
5 Push ups
1 dip
No-sit
0 pistol squats
Absolutely 0 iron cross
Absolutely 0 Back lever
1 year later:
1rm 35kg weighted pull up
1 RTO archer push up each side
1rm 48kg weighted dip
Long af l-sit
5 reps 22kg weighted pistol squat each leg
Ring assisted iron cross 5 seconds
Straddle Back lever 7 seconds
If you've read all of this, you have no life, just kidding haha, but thank you if you have read all of this. This sub-reddit has helped me immensely, especially advice from @fromgenesistorevelation ,
@deborah123, and countless others.
I really hope this has motivated you that you can change yourself and your body immensely in just a year. I will attach a link to my transformation on YouTube if you'd like to take a look at it
My diet:
Breakfast: Oats boiled in water with chia seeds, mixed frozen berries, cinnamon (sometimes might add a scoop of protein powder if I feel like it but I usually don't)
Lunch: Usually a ham or chicken sandwich
Dinner: A one-pan meal of a protein source (usually prawns, chicken, ham, lean beef), potatoes, carrots, lentils or chickpeas or another vegan protein source, mixed in with vegetable stock and tomato puree.
Snack (Usually late at night or some time during the day):
One of: Popcorn, greek yoghurt, protein bar, my homemade ice cream, homemade healthy brownies.
I eat clean most of the time, and cook pretty much all my meals myself, using largely low calorie ingredients, so I would use little olive oil, wouldn't use added sugar etc.
For my 'unhealthy meals' like homemade ice cream, I would use low-cal ingredients to create something like a litre of ice cream for 400 calories or something like that.
Thanks guys x
Back is so weak