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Lately there has been a lot of discussion and debate about calisthenics and muscle mass gains. There is also a debate about Calisthenics vs. Gym and the effectiveness of both in this respect. Even some Calisthenics athletes with great physiques have been accused of using steroids or secretly going to the gym. In this article we are going to talk in detail about this topic, we will analyze what you have to do to work on hypertrophy in general, how the gym is effective for that matter and how would you have to do it with Calisthenics and with Calisteniapp.

Bar planche is one of the movements that can help you improve your level in this sport, because it is a way to show your statics or push strength while doing a freestyle combo in the bar, without having to change to the parallel bars. It also allows you to energize your combos, making "strength stops" that add tension so you can then break with your dynamics. Por eso me parece importante hacer este tutorial para intentar ayudarles a que consigan este movimiento y lo añadan a su repertorio.

This article refers to one of the questions that I get asked most, which is if I take some kind of supplementation. First, I will talk about the supplements that I don't take and why, and then which ones I do take and why, and then I will tell you where to get them. Which supplements I DON'T take:

In our sport, there is worrying problem that I haven't heard people address that much. If you are lucky to train in a park with other people, you will notice that a lot of them have a really clear postural problem. I am talking about the syndrome called upper crossed syndrome, or, what is the same, having a rounded upper back. In this article we are going to see all details about this problem, why it happens, how to fix it and my personal experience with it.

Sometimes when you have been training for a while and you are not getting the results that you want, you can lose your motivation, and feel that you aren't excited about your routine for today or that you might stop training all along. In this article I want to give you some advice from my experience about how to pass that phase and how to avoid it happening again, with some easy steps, lets start:

In this article I want to do a guide for people who start completely from scratch, people who don't have any strength, old people or similar situations in which doing the basic exercises such as pull ups, dips or push ups is not a fair option. We will see which specific exercises you can do and how to adapt the basics in calisthenics to lower its difficulty by a great deal so you can build strength from there. If you want to start calisthenics in a good way, that allows you to have the best possibilities in this sport, I think that you should aim to learn basic progressions for push, pull, legs and abs exercises.

Impossible dip is one of those tricks that you see and think "it looks great, lets try if I can do it", and then you try and you don't even move one inch, you don't even know how to move in that position. That's when you can use this tutorial. In the app you have the impossible dip plan so you can progress along with the knowledge that we are going to see here. To learn how to do this trick, we are going to use the experience and advice from some of my partners in my team, Jose and Richard, and from the great Russian sensei Artem Morozov, one of the best athletes when it comes to impossible dips.

Front Lever is an element that I have always struggled with. It took me years to be able to "more or less" hold it, and just some months ago I got injured in my abs and that made me stop training it, so now I have to start all over again. And this time I want to do it with a very well designed routine that I will show you next. In this case the method that I'm going to use is the one that I think to be the most effective, with the best exercises. And that is what I am going to share with you in this article, in which we will analyze the front lever routines by phase of movement for beginners and intermediate, available in the app.

One of the skills that many beginners want to achieve is to be able to handstand using their own strength, without jumping to it. This is one of the most important movements, because it will give you the ability to do handstand in parallel bars without any problem. It will give you basic strength to lots of planche exercises and control over your handstand so you can do it anywhere. In Calisteniapp we have a plan to achieve this movement, and many people get confused about it, because this plans consists basically in doing a lot of sets of the same exercise. In this article we are going to analyze how this plan works and why.

The goal of Calisteniapp is to be your complete guide for your calisthenics training, which will allow you to organize your trainings, know how to accomplish your goals, guide you through every routine, challenge you to achieve your goals, teach you new exercises and movements, control your progress over time and help you create your own routines. The app has a lot of possibilities and functionalities, that’s why in this article we are going to see how to correctly use the main options so you can get the most value from it.

After almost a year specifically training to get the Hefesto, I finally did it. As you will see in this article, I have suffered a lot to achieve it and I have had ups and downs. That's why I have a lot of information and knowledge on this trick and I think that my experience can help you a lot. This article will serve you as a complement to the Hefesto training program that you have available on the app.

I think this is one of the most important knowledge that you can have in calisthenics, and also one of the least known themes in its athletes. I have been thinking about why there seems to be so many injuries and pain in our community and I came to the conclusion that it is caused by 3 main reasons. Obviously we are talking about non fortuitous injuries, so we are excluding accidents.