Overcoming Calisthenics Progression Limitations

Now this term for this is what I call freestyle progression.

Now progressive calisthenics is not a new idea.

It's always been around, but it became more popular when convict conditioning came out almost 20 years ago now.

But the way it's applied in most calisthenics programs is very restrictive and extremely limiting for you to have the freedom and ability to do what's best to get the results you want as quickly as possible.

So typically when you have a calisthenics program, it works like this.

You have an exercise like wall pushups and say, okay, this is your exercise.

You're gonna do this for as much as you can until you can hit a progression standard of some sort.

where you say, okay, you get two sets of 30 repetitions.

Great.

Okay, once you do that, then you've earned the right, and now you can go to incline push-ups, and you have to stay on that exercise until you hit another progression standard, and so on.

And this type of format for progressive calisthenics, and sometimes you find this in weightlifting too, of, you know, stay at this weight until you do these many repetitions and stuff.

is very clear, it's very well laid out, and that's the allure of it.

That's what makes it simple.

It's like, oh, this is just a step-by-step progression, and all I gotta do is follow the steps, and I'll be doing 100 one-arm pushups with a 100-pound weight vest by this time next year.

It sounds great in theory, but in practical application, it very rarely pans out.

What ends up happening most of the time is people get stuck on steps, People find that they are great at one step, and then the next step is just, I can't even do one rep on that.

Sometimes it doesn't abide by their abilities, what's best for their body, what their equipment layout is.

Basically, it's kind of like giving someone a roadmap to downtown LA with one street on it.

It's like saying, here's how you get through LA.

Here's the start of Main Street.

There's the other end of Main Street.

There you go.

It's like, well, that's great if you wanna go from one end of Main Street to the other, but what if you're not even on Main Street? What if you need to go somewhere else? What if your destination's not on it? Now you gotta go back into, well, I guess I gotta just roam around and hope I just get what I want through luck.

So freestyle progression in the Beautiful Strength Program is gonna solve this for you.

Because on one hand, the classic progression approach of progression standard stuff is clear, straightforward, but restrictive.