Can barely do pushups solved!

[sgj]

@sylva Sure!

Some good calisthenics channels are FitnessFAQs, calisthenicsmovement, this guy, . FitnessFAQs covers most topics.

As for heavy lifting, there’s a lot to choose from. It depends on your goals.

 

[betaninja]

@sylva If you're into calisthenics, avoid Jeff.

If you're into the barbell, avoid Jeff.

He is good at spouting off a lot of anatomy and selling confidence, his advice is usually fine, but when it's wrong, it can be terribly wrong. He's made an art out of demonising specific movements or exercises to drive clicks.

 

[bobbarnes81]

@sylva Oh, I see. So your saying he's a big deal. Weird, I'll have to look him up later!

 

[sylva]

@bobbarnes81 Seems like it to me, he's the main focus of the "ATHLEAN-X" YouTube channel which has over 10m subs and has the credentials I mentioned in my prior comment.

I'm pretty new to this community so most of the people that are a 'big deal' here are new to me tbf

 

[bobbarnes81]

@sylva Hey, youre right. I found a video of him on youtube, I saved it to watch later.

Good find!

 

[cavalier83]

@bobbarnes81 Holy shit, why are people downvoting you into oblivion for not knowing who someone is? I mean, he's a very prominent figure, but nobody can expect you to know him just because he's popular. Jesus...

 

[keithcarey]

@cavalier83 Who's Jesus ?

 

[bobbarnes81]

@sylva Found some more videos. The titles all seem sport specific, so maybe not my thing after all!

 

[sylva]

@bobbarnes81 It is a massive channel with seemingly hundreds of videos, and almost every single one I'm seeing is related to exercise/lifting/bodyweight fitness. Are you sure you're looking at the right thing?

 

[bobbarnes81]

@sylva I looked some more. He's just too sport specific. I like to train more like an athlete myself

 

[dawn16]

@bobbarnes81 He was a trainer for the New York’s Mets as well but now runs a successful YouTube and online business

 

[bobbarnes81]

@dawn16 That's probably why, I'm not a baseball fan.

 

[keepwatch]

@williamgoode Man, I fuckin love Jeff. Super helpful and I've learned a ton from him, and I feel like he seems like a legitimately cool and fun guy with his fam and assistant, etc.

 

[scoshar]

@pastorjeff2u Going to try this! Haven't been able to do a push-up in 10 years

 

[pastorjeff2u]

@scoshar Go for it! Don't be discouraged if you can't do one though, I had to start off doing knee pushups and progressed to standard ones.

 

[dawn16]

@pastorjeff2u That’s how I got started too. And just started it up again as now I’m trying to get my chest lower.

 

[iahawkette]

@pastorjeff2u I have a similar problem. I started working out 3 months ago, and I could barely do a proper pushup back then. I can do 100 in a day now, but if I do it too many days in a row i start getting shoulder pain, and I NEVER feel my chest.

What make it worse is that I actually started feeling my chest working in ONE of my pushup workouts like 2 weeks ago, but I never managed to figured out what I was doing differently.

Thanks for the video

 

[pastorjeff2u]

@iahawkette No problem, 100 in a day is impressive. I might start with 50 a day and split it up throughout the day as atm I'm only doing 6-8 in a set.

 

[omri3]

@pastorjeff2u Athleanx is a fucking legend. he's got me through so much it's unbelievable.
I just wish I took his advice more seriously last year. would've really gave me much more results

 

[kamikyu]

@omri3 I agree...probably one of the absolute best channels for body weight fitness