#177: Homemade Muscle & Bodyweight Training
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
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🗓️ 12 February 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
I'm a barbell guy. That's what I do for my strength training. But I know a lot of listeners love bodyweight exercises. You can do it anywhere, it saves you money, and it's incredibly functional. So there are a lot of benefits, but I've never really been able to find a good bodyweight program. But I came across a book called Homemade Muscle by Anthony Arvanitakis which builds periodization into bodyweight programming. He's got an amazing story, which we'll talk about, as well as the nitty-gritty of bodyweights.
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| 0:00.0 | We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | So I'm a barbell guy, that's what I do for my strength training. |
| 0:21.1 | But I know a lot of you who are listening love body weight training, body weight exercise. |
| 0:25.4 | And I understand that if you like appreciated, I mean what I love about body weight training |
| 0:28.9 | is that you can do it anywhere, do it from your house. |
| 0:31.8 | So it's convenient. |
| 0:33.4 | It saves you money because you don't have to pay for a gym membership or a lot of equipment. |
| 0:37.8 | So I definitely get the appeal and there's also that functional aspect of it. |
| 0:41.0 | Like how the body is supposed to move, right? |
| 0:42.8 | Pull ups and push ups and etc. |
| 0:44.9 | Problem I've had with body weight training because I've tried it a few times. |
| 0:46.9 | It's like I just don't think there's like, I've never been able to find good programming |
| 0:50.2 | for particularly online. |
| 0:51.2 | It's just a lot of it's just do as many push ups as you can, do as many air squats as you |
| 0:54.7 | can, etc, etc. |
| 0:55.7 | And there's really no progression. |
| 0:57.4 | I came across this book, Homemade Muscle, and the guy wrote his name, his name Anthony |
| 1:01.2 | Arvani Daki's. |
| 1:02.6 | He has laid out programming that has periodization built in that uses body weight training. |
| 1:08.2 | So you have consistent progression with the training and it uses the same principles |
| 1:11.7 | that you find in the barbell world. |
| 1:13.8 | And I love how detailed he gets with it. |
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