so you guys have probably noticed that I've started mixing calisthenics and weightlifting going more for a hybrid approach after only training calisthenics for about three or four years and also mixing weighty calisthenics in that too eventually you're going to get a point where you want to kind of change up and mix around your fitness goals especially if you're given more access to things like a gym or maybe you get really good at calisthenics and you want to kind of mix things up so in this video I want to share with you tips and advice on how you can actually start implementing weightlifting with calisthenics and the most efficient and effective way possible before we get into that I do want to mention that I've also started one-to-one Fitness coaching online so if you need more help implementing these Concepts in which I'm going to talk about for maybe constructing your own personal routine on how you can do it too click the link down below it's where we'll actually get on a call and then go over some of your fitness goals and see where we can help you out with all right I'll leave a link down below first things first let's talk about Statics and isometric training I feel Statics aren't as popular as what they used to be in regards to people training it but when I talk about Statics I'm talking about handstand front lever back lever planche all the basic skill moves like that and then from there you can derive all the other advanced stuff if you want to but those are pretty much the foundation and the basics so how do you mix that with weight lifting or even like a combination of the two well the point is is that you can always train Statics even a bodybuilder can train static training and the way you do it is by separating your reps from your isometrics I've done this early on and back when I was solely doing calisthenics I've always went with this approach you train your isometrics first and then from there you get into your reps and sets whenever you try to mix in isometric training kind of in your workout routine with the reps and sets or maybe even after your workout routine you're not going to have the full match capability of being able to hold the isometric in the most efficient way possible because you're too fatigued so you have to treat isometric training like literally skill training it's called skill training but you got to treat it like it's another thing like it's totally separate from your hypertrophy or your strength building depending on what it is so with handstands for example for most people it's not going to be a strength issue it's going to be more of a technical issue of balance or just learning the skill in itself but if you're training for plants or maybe front lever that's more of a strength sort of thing not necessarily technical or balanced or anything like that so whether it be tentacle or even strength you still want to approach it the same way and train at the beginning of the workout before you get into your reps and sets and like I said even if you weren't doing calisthenics at all anybody can learn a handstand anybody can learn how to do a front lever they just have to prioritize it at the Forefront of their routine speaking of prioritization my next tip is that you have to prioritize what strength curve is more important to you so we have relative strength which is going to be more on the calisthenic side being good with your own body weight and being able to move through space effectively or we have our absolute strength being able to move a strong force as effectively and efficiently as possible so bench press pledge push-up well I pull down pull-ups weighted squat which is like weighted calisthenics or pistol Squad which one are more aligned to your goals and that's also why you need to have goals before you actually construct some sort of program because you got to know what you want that's what a whole program is meant for is by a systematic plan to hit your goals so do you want to get stronger at bench press more than you do plants then what should you do you should do maybe your Statics first if you want to do that and then from there you should do your bench press first but let's say you want to prioritize more calisthenics more so than weight lifting then you want to treat weightlifting almost like an afterthought you're going to prioritize your relative strength first and then from there once you're done with that then that's what you do your weight lifting your machines your isolations whatever you have to do what I would say is that if you're really prioritizing calisthenics it's best to always put that first before actually the weightlifting stuff and that's because once again the fatigue is a real thing it's going to be a lot harder to do a plant progression whether it be the dynamic push-up or even some sort of Pull-Up progression after you've done live pull Downs After you've done bench press or whatever so the way I've always done it is that I kind of treat my calisthenics first and then from there I'll do my weight lifting after but prioritize first one is more important to you tip number three is to do weighted calisthenics wedding calisthenics is if weight lifting and Catalyst settings had a baby so you're getting literally the best of both you're getting the effects of being able to build your relative shrimp but also you're bidding a lot more strength you're building a lot more muscle and you're kind of building some absolute strength in there too it's a perfect hybrid of the two and if we're talking in regards to like a true hybrid then if you're not having weighted calisthenics within your routine then you are severely severely doing yourself a disservice so weighted pull-ups weighted squats weighted push-ups I never really like weighted push-ups because of the setup but when it pull-ups and weighted squats are my bread and butter weighted dips even too if you're if you're into doing this I don't do heavy weighted dips anymore as I mentioned before but if you want to do weighted dips all that stuff should be an integral part of any good routine that has a hybrid approach to it if you're not doing weighted calisthenics like I said you're doing yourself a disservice start doing it right now also you want to superset so you want to superset the strength curves I did this before in a workout Vlog and which I just posted what we did was bench press because I was prioritizing that string curve in the workout and then from there I would do a drop set or a superset with like a push-up exercise that kind of worked the same muscle group but not really it was more of a upper chest Focus push-up but that's an example of what you can do and if you got the work capacity and if you're Advanced enough to actually implement this in a routine it's amazing guys so like I said brakes press superset the push-ups you can do shoulder press superset the handstand push-ups or actually it's probably more smarter if you do handstand push-ups superset to like a shorter press I've done that many times too another one that I love too is heavy lat pull Downs super set it's a body weight Pull-Ups so super set the two strength curves so that you can kind of get the best of both and also get a high a high amount of volume while you do that too especially if you do that for three or four sets that's definitely gonna go a long way all right guys so Implement all these tips if you want more of a hybrid approach to your routine and to utilize both shift curves once again I'm doing one-on-one Fitness coaching now and I would love for you to actually hop on and be one of my clients so go ahead and click the link down below if you want more help not only more help but also more accountability whether it be nutrition or actually making sure you're completing your workouts in order to reach your fitness goals and also you have direct access to me if you have any questions outside of Just Fitness but absolutely anything 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