A new year is upon us! We are all too eager to leave 2020 behind and travel onward. Check out my calisthenics progress and hold me accountable for my goals! I will be updating every 6 months!
As this is my first calisthenics-related post I will provide some background. I enjoy calisthenics. What better way to get into shape without needing to pay for a gym membership or weights? My body is my weight, and the world is my gym. I started doing calisthenics about 3 months into college. Prior to then, I maintained fitness by being a swimmer in high school who occasionally lifted light free weights just to tone some muscles for aesthetic purposes. When I began college, I started to see the vanity in working out for looks, and started to focus on strength. I will not lie, maintaining physique is still part of what drives my training, but I place more emphasis on my strength, flexibility, and overall health. I became a regular at my college gym. For some reason though, the weights never clicked with me. I liked the idea of calisthenics more. The dynamic moves and static positions looked elegant and required not just strength but balance, compound muscle activation, and flexibility. Calisthenics was like the middleman between weights and yoga.
Anyway, here are my benchmarks and goals:
| Exercise | Current | Goal |
| Pull Up | 17 | 21 |
| Muscle Up | 0 | 1 |
| One-Arm Pull Up | 0 | 1 |
| Dips | 20 | 35 |
| Handstand | 6 sec | 15 sec |
| Push Ups | 65 | 85 |
| Handstand Push Ups | 5 | 10 |
| *Tuck Planche | 5 sec | 20 sec |
| L-Sit | 20 sec | 30 sec |
| Pistol Squats | 15 (L) 12 (R) | 20 (L) 20 (R) |
*I would prefer to also move on to the next progression of the tuck planche, the straddle planche.
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