Coolest representations of calisthenics in movies, animation, video games and other media?

[thomaslowrens]

@newbie1 Very cool stunts.

 

[vladtepes831]

@thomaslowrens There's the iconic scene of Sarah Connor using her bed turned on its side to do chin ups in the mental hospital in Terminator 2.

 

[thomaslowrens]

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

 

[naani]

@thomaslowrens She can't, the floor is in the way. Also, this one is easier on the joints, so I sometimes don't go all the way down either.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@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.

 

[naani]

@thomaslowrens True, but I think she still might fall short, difficult to judge. Doesn't really matter though, doubt the director thought longer than a few seconds about this judging from how it went down

 

[thomaslowrens]

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

 

[nibru]

@thomaslowrens Goku training and doing one arm push-ups in the gravity machine.

 

[thomaslowrens]

@nibru And one finger handstand pushups.

 

[dawn16]

@nibru Goku and Vegeta are the reasons why I love calisthenics

 

[juneie]

@thomaslowrens Salmon ladder in Arrow looks badass.

 

[rj786]

@juneie Real too if I remember. Actor trained to actually do it.

 

[juneie]

@rj786 Yeah it is. He also did it on a celebrity Ninja Warrior episode.

 

[faith33]

@juneie Link for the lazy.

 

[smheelen]

@thomaslowrens Jackie Chan’s training montage in Drunken Master.

 

[faith33]

@smheelen It seems Jackie Chan did comedy later on because that's what the market wanted, but he had serious skills. Supposedly he spent 1 hour/day in handstand/inverted. Rumble in the Bronx had a good clip...

 

[faith33]

Source - Jackie Chan (

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/16soeo/til_jackie_chan_would_hold_a_handstand_for_an

)

 

[celandyne]

@faith33 Jackie Chan's performance in that movie was really impressive. He was seriously fit.

 

[thomaslowrens]

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

 

[cchambone]

@thomaslowrens Batman Doing 3 plate weighted pullups and tire pulls in batman VS superman