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Hey fit! I'm on the way to making myself healthier. Instead of sitting on my ass all day, I've been going on longer and longer walks (I had an issue with a tendon in my foot that I healed by progressive heavy resistance). I thought about a gym membership, but I think it's better to do calisthenics at home rather than jumping into a bunch of things at once. I need to lose weight, but IDK where to begin as far as calisthenics goes. Obviously CICO, go on a diet. No problem, I can maintain keto for months, it's easy, just takes some self control. However, I cannot do even ONE pushup. Last time I went on an exercise bend, I pushed myself way too hard and injured myself. I'm avoiding any injury this time around.

I'd like to move into this slowly so it becomes a habit and not a fad. Do you have any resources on where to start so I don't injure myself? Any advice, tips, etc?

Thank you for your help frens!
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>>181 (OP) 
I'm not really a calisthenics-guy, but bumping with some opinions. pushups and planks are always great. You'll be surprised by how well they can complement hou fizeek. Plus you can do many variations of them without any extra equipment. Burpees are fantastic too.
>>181 (OP) 
simple, same with all of fitness, slow progression, do wall pushups, when those are too easy>domore> increase angle, like push ups against a rail> increase angle, like against a bed (bed push ups are actually hard cause it's soft and good for stabilizer muscles too)

then lower the angle till you are on the floor doing them, then up the reps, then do archer push ups, then do 1 arm push ups, then do pike push ups (more shoulder based) then do against wall pikes, then do handstand push ups.

same thing for all of excercises it's actually pretty simple.

squats, lower squats, squats using mostly one leg power, pistol squats.
 
pull ups, do pulls on a desk or something with you under, more like rows, jump then fight the fall on a bar, fuck cardio personally, but sprints are good for leg strength.

biceps, use backpack, or lean back and do sorta like pull ups but using biceps. 

If you do buy equipment, a pullup bar or make one, and a kettlebell is my reccomendations, simply for the swing and overhead press.

fitness is pretty simple, just slow progression and consistency, but also your muscles gain memory so you don't lose much once you gain it, although going back to fit from not fit usually has an adjustment period where you'll think you lost it all but it's just mainly your CNS central nervous system readapting to taking on loads.

you don't have to go to failure ever, but I prefer it for fun and then just resting a lot.

one thing I disagree with in fitness general discussion is always be working out and how frequent the typical schedule is, I agree with it for light workouts, but I don't like to waste my time, so I do medium to hard full body days and then just chillax and let my body recover, I don't work out when tired or sore, and I am insanely strong, although lots of that are my elite White genetics probably. 

good luck fren.
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>>185
by days I mean I just workout till all the body parts I care about are worked good ( I go based off of feel) and then rest till they feel like I haven't worked out.

which takes me from 20-50 minutes 1x a week, though sometimes I'll do like 3-6 hour workouts and/or go super hardcore, but that's just for my own entertainment/passion.

cardio is alright, mostly to get the heart rate going, so you can run or bike or swim, but doing intense pushups or load bearing workouts that raise heartrate as long as you raise your heartrate and sustain it higher for a bit it will train it.

I also avoid going  hyper endurance because from my limited understanding having your heart too fit is bad for you, too much heart muscle, like your other muscle memory, it won't ever go away, I keep my resting rate like 50-70bpm range personally.

that and high impact cardio wears your joints and bones down, so if you do do cardio aside from based realistic cardio like innawoodsing or tactical training etc, I'd do something with no impact like biking, or just (fit nerd term HIIT) high intensity push ups or weight lifting and keep your heart rate up.

high endurance cardio like goggins does is just stupid though don't do it.
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>>186
all this not thrown aside: a daily routine of activity and fitness is goated health wise if it fits with your life trajectory, not really for strength and ubermensch stuff, but for overall health, endurance, and mental well being, jobs that aren't pure labor but have you moving around and doing some medium-to hard labor here and there, is goated.

hard labor jobs just destroy you, and working out while working a medium labor job usually is just harmful aswell, my 130 lb ass could outlift 220 lb co workers in a rock lifting job I used to have, mostly because they skimped on sleep and worked out like 4x a week while I just chilled and 1x a month or so did a workout, because I was letting my body heal and chill, and getting sleep.
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>>181 (OP) 
if you continue with your progression and don't see results, it's usually diet and rest, or not pushing enough/pushing too hard. if you can't do a single pushup, you should be getting MASSIVE beginner gains, but if you plateau it's going to be probably one of those 3 reasons, so if any hiccups occur months down the line, just make a new post I'll help ya out.
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Did some one say calesthenics? Here you go anon.

Convict Conditioning: How to Bust Free of All Weakness - Using the Lost Secrets of Supreme Survival Strength by Paul Wade
https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=2E5273EE8AE2E8A63F491E18327EEFB5

Convict Conditioning 2: Advanced Prison Training Tactics for Muscle Gain, Fat Loss, and Bulletproof Joints by Paul Wade
https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=963F555D23D6E51F23C0C05101666403

He wrote more books, also on libgen.is once you're done with these. And if any one thinks this won't make you strong, how does it sound to be so strong you can take down a charging bull in a single blow? See vid related and remember 
Praise Herakles (Hercules)
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Rocking chair burpees and pull ups are great
Calisthenics is kind of lame. You are training endurance, but most people don't recognize that as valid. From my meme understanding you want to gain higher overall fiber volume by stressing the muscles to maximum recruitment and then letting them rest. So in my opinion, shouldn't you just do some heavy lifts to maximize the recruitment and allow your body to gain mass volume first? This was what a fit-tard told me one day although he was a mentzer type waxing about overtraining and such. 

Anyways. The routine I know of for getting to 100 pushups is straightforward and comes from an army trainer with considerable experience. You always do your target total of 100 (or more), and try to accomplish it in the least number of intervals or as fast as possible. So you might start out like 30, 20, 18, 15, 10, 7 reps per set and then get it down to 30,30,30,10 and so on. People looking to maximize their gains usually suggest at least 5 sets of any exercise to maximize activation, although some argue if you really stress your muscles to exhaustion in the first few sets you can ignore the rest. I think the 5 set model is for maximal testosterone activation.

Generally speaking, It's all about ideal protein intake, ideal caloric intake, ideal rest, and ideal testosterone/GH production. The protein levels you will need are quite high, your caloric intake will also be massive. Those two things screw over many people who start. Raising test is fairly easy since you will be lifting, but if you're older there are some options
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Bump.
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making good gains?
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