It's Chris Heria.

Welcome to another video of official THENX.

Today we're gonna be continuing the series

How I Got So Strong.

And today we'll be covering calisthenics versus weights.

Let's get into it.

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Alright guys, so let's get started.

So today we're gonna be going over

weights versus calisthenics.

Continuing the how I got so strong series.

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Alright, so let's get into this video.

So today we're talking about calisthenics versus weights.

Well, let's begin by defining both of them.

Calisthenics is when you are training with your body weight.

You are using your body weight to work out.

Weight training is using an external resistance.

Using weight to work out.

When you're training with calisthenics,

its gonna focus more on body control and body engagement.

Relative strength, how strong you are

relative to your body weight.

Now weights focuses more on targeted muscles.

Specifically your maximum strength.

How much maximum overload force you can produce.

Now when you're training calisthenics

you're really gonna be engaging your fast twitch muscles,

body control, and your core engagement.

These are the main things

that you're gonna be developing with calisthenics.

When you're training with weight

you're gonna be developing your power specifically.

How much force you can possibly exert

on an external weight, external resistance.

Now, let me give you a hypothetical situation.

You see a lot of guys in the gym

and they can bench 400 pounds.

They can row 400 pounds.

Whatever, and do massive amount of weight.

They have crazy amount of power, right?

But then you tell them to go do 20 pushups,

and they can't even do 20 pushups.

They can't even do 10 pull-ups to save their life.

Why? That's because weight training

does not translate into calisthenics.

It does not translate into body weight control,

body weight training relative to strength.

However, someone training in calisthenics.

Training the right way with the right programing.

Is actually gonna be able to use the skills

and the strength they applied into the weight room.

Because when you're training calisthenics

you're creating a body connection.

You are mainly engaging your core

whenever you are doing any exercise.

Involuntarily, whether you like it or not

you're strengthening your core with every exercise.

And, you're gonna have a body controlled.

You're gonna have this body awareness

where you're gonna be able to

use your core to help with your lift.

Use your core to help with your press.

Use the leverage of accessing other muscles

in your body to use your body as one unit

to apply strength and force

that is gonna have you produce the moves

that you want to do.

Which is obviously gonna get you to the next level.

You're lifting heavier, you're doing more repetition,

you're getting stronger.

Now, even though calisthenics translates

into the weight room.

And there are aspects that you would gain from calisthenics.

Such as the body awareness, the core engagement,

and the fast twitch activations

that are gonna help you in the weight room.

It doesn't mean necessarily that you're gonna go in there

and be lifting crazy amounts of weight.

Because to acquire that, you must be lifting heavy.

And you cannot necessarily do that in calisthenics

because you're using body weight training.

You can only train as much as you weigh

or as much weight as you can put on your body

when it comes to calisthenics or body weight training.

That's not gonna be nearly as much as the weight

that you can put on a barbell or the amount of weight

that you can hold in your hand with a dumbbell.

That is why it is so much easier

to put on a lot more mass with weights.

And it's easier to create more power with weights.

Cuz you're gonna be able to use

a lot more external force to your advantage.

Now, there's not one training style

that's better than the other.

There's certain aspects that you're gonna get

from one training style,

and certain aspects that you're gonna get

from the other one.

And specifically, excercises.

There's some exercises, calisthenics exercises

that are gonna benefit you so greatly

that you can never do with weight training.

And there are weight training exercises

that are gonna greatly benefit you

that you're never gonna be able

to reproduce through calisthenics.

And I'm gonna show you that in this workout

that we're gonna do today.

So to sum it all up. What you get from calisthenics

is relative strength, body control,

core engagement, and activation of your fast twitch muscles.

Being able to reproduce (snaps fingers) boom

power as fast as you can.

And weights will help you increase mass

more efficiently and easier.

As well as gain your maximum strength

and power by targeting specific muscles,

and giving it a maximum overload.

An amount of weight that you can never do

with calisthenics on isolated muscle groups.

So now I'm gonna show you guys the workout

that's gonna bring best of both worlds, alright.

If you're just doing one calisthenics

you're not gonna get the benefit from weight training.

And if you're just doing weight training

you're not gonna the benefit from calisthenics.

You gotta do both to become the ultimate athlete.

In fact do as many things as you can.

Don't just do weights and calisthenics.

Do skateboarding, wake boarding.

Whatever it is that gets you active.

And that kicks you outta your comfort zone.

Takes you outside of the box,

and has you activating your body

in new ways that you have never done before.

It's normally the things that you never do

those are the things that you need to do.

So now we're gonna go for this whole body workout.

We're gonna start off with muscle-ups. After our muscle-ups,

We're gonna go straight into clean and press.

From there we're gonna do some around the worlds.

After that we're gonna go into deadlifts.

Then we're gonna go into L-sit front lever.

Then we have squats.

And we're gonna finish of with wall-walk, handstand, press.

So if you guys are ready, I'm ready. Let's get started.

Alright, so we're gonna start of with some muscle-ups.

Now this is the move right here like I was saying before.

You can't replicate this with weight training.

This is a specialized calisthenics move

that's gonna get you to the next level.

Have you engaging your whole entire body.

Giving you that body connection, body engagement.

Here we go.

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Alright, that's a nice little warm-up. So, right there.

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Or you can watch the many videos that we've already uploaded

on how to muscle-up on this youtube channel.

Alright, lets move on .

We're gonna go on to clean and press.

This move is a great move to combo with the muscle-up.

This is literally like doing the reverse,

the opposite of a muscle up.

Instead of coming down and going all the way up.

You're starting from here

and going all the way up like that.

Alright, so lets go for it. Clean and press.

You want to stand shoulder width apart,

you grab the bar right outside of your knees.

Alright, here we go.

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Whoo, alright let's move on.

We're gonna go around the world.

Now, to me personally, I love training core.

And as I've said before, having strong core engagement

is gonna increase your lifts,

increase all the other aspects of your training.

So now we're gonna go for some around the worlds.

Guys, make sure you're using clean form.

Don't be wiggling around, alright.

No momentum, just lift. Here we go.

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To make it easier,

when you're coming up on one side hold that hand tighter.

I'm gonna hold this side tighter.

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Make sure your legs go straight there too.

Alright, make sure you're breathing at all times.

Alright lets move it on to deadlifts.

Here we go, start shoulder width apart.

Straight down, get a nice, good, strong grip.

Alright guys, let's go for it.

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Whoo, alright.

Lets move it on.

We got L-sits with

the front lever.

This is a tough one guys.

Alright, if you guys can't do this move

just try to hold the L-sit, try to do some leg raises.

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Get full access to all our technique guides,

all our workout programs.

I don't know what you're waiting for.

If this is what you really want to do.

It's time to get to the next level.

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Whoo, alright. Movin' on. We got squats.

Perfect example

of an exercise you cannot necessarily get from calisthenics.

I don't care how many pistol squats you do.

I don't care how many jumping squats you do.

You will not be as strong as the person squatting like this.

Its just simple.

You may have a better body connection, better balance,

better core engagement by doing these pistol squats