what’s your opinion on calisthenics versus weights again for me both I like them both you know with calisthenics you get that endurance strength you get some flexibility and some mobility out of it they’re pretty natural movements right they’re pretty natural movements are things that you’re doing with your human body so they’re going to be more natural weights obviously make you stronger more explosive at a certain point they also can be more injury inducing and at another point they’re also less injury inducing so there’s a certain point where if you have an injury in your shoulder and you normally would do handstand push-ups which means you’re lifting up 230 pounds well with weight training you could lift up 40 pounds if you want to right so so there’s it goes both ways where sometimes calisthenics might be the more injury inducing thing and sometimes weight training might be the more injury inducing things that’s why you got to balance the two of them you know and for instance when I if I like I hurt my ankle a couple months ago and I could not put any weight on the scroll bar so I was just doing you know pistols and and school you know air squats jumps and box jumps you know I was using things that war didn’t have anyway because I could do all that but the minute I put weight on my back you anything above body weight it started to hurt and so I just needed to let that thing heal and I used the calisthenics to get me there and then the same exact opposite I had my shoulder was tweaked six months ago and I was having a hard time doing handstand push-ups because it was just a wrong angle and so I was just using just using I was doing press with a lighter weight than my body weight in order to keep the blood moving in court in order to keep the in order to keep the system moving because that’s what I think you got to do so I think you got to be you got to find a balance of both which means which means I’m not graded either one of them I’m not when in any weightlifting competitions and I’m not going to win in a gymnastics competition either and AH there are some guys especially now I mean there’s some guys that are getting in sick shape you know you watch the guys in the CrossFit Games right now they’re savages and they’re doing both the calisthenics and the weightlifting and actually reading something about it the other day and it’s becoming more weightlifting focused you know whether it’s a long wait what is CrossFit CrossFit okay I shouldn’t say it’s getting that more focused but if you want to win the CrossFit Games you got to be able to lift some heavy weights you got to be able to deadlift a lot snatch a lot clean and jerk a lot and if you can deadlift a lot clean and jerk a lot and snatch a lot you’re going to be able to do and at least you practice the other movements the muscle up the pull-ups you’re going to be much more apt to be able to do those things than the other way around mm-hm so I mean it’s for somebody that can do a bodyweight snatch is more likely to be able to do 50 pull-ups in a row then somebody that’s able to do 50 pull-ups in a row and that’s their focus in life is able to automatically do a bodyweight snatch I mean that’s just the reality of it that’s what I think right now but the bottom line is on those I use both of them I like to try and find that balance and I think I use both of them according to what my body prescribes me
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