Ep. 193: Al Kavadlo - "Mastering Calisthenics"
Choose Hard
Cody McBroom
4.8 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
One of the Calisthenic Kings is in the house today!! Al Kavadlo, a legend when it comes to bodyweight training stopped by to talk shop about his story and the keys to successful bodyweight mastery. Check Al’s YouTube or Instagram out for tons of content on Calisthenics or to find more info on his books.
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(4:31) - Al Kovadlo’s Background
(11:08) - What do you do with your coaching and workshops now? And was this your overall plan from the beginning?
(13:50) - What all is included in your courses?
(18:36) – What’s the biggest limiting factor, holding people back, with calisthenics?
(28:15) - What is your measurement for progressions? Do you have quality control on that?
(29:55) - How do you program? How do you spice up variation?
(37:00) - How old are you and your brother? Is bodyweight training more optimal for your joint health?
(40:40) - What is your thoughts with the idea that you “can’t build muscle with body weight training?”
(43:11) – For those who DO train with weights, how do you recommend putting calisthenics and body weight work into their programming?
(44:55) - What do you guys do for conditioning? Fat loss?
(47:00) - Tell me about some of your books
(50:55) - Do you have any daily ritual or morning routine? Any practices that you use to motivate you, keep a strong mind, eliminate self-doubt, and keep pushing forward?
(54:40) - Tell me more about your tattoos
(57:25) - What is your master plan for Al Kovadlo?
(1:00:00) If You Could Be At A Dinner Table With Any 3 People From History, Dead or Alive, Who Would It Be and Why?
(1:02:00) - Where is the best place to find your material and information about you?
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on, guys? |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to another episode of the Boom Boom Performance podcast. |
| 0:15.8 | Today's guest is the bodyweight master himself, the calisthenics king, one of them, at least. |
| 0:24.7 | Al Cavadlow came on the show today to talk shop, talk bodyweight training, and talk about his |
| 0:29.0 | specific story. So a lot of people know Al Cavadlo because he is one of the, like I said, |
| 0:34.7 | the bodyweight kings, him and his brother have made, him is brother Danny, have made noise in the industry when it comes to dispelling the myths behind body |
| 0:42.7 | weight training. |
| 0:43.4 | Can you do it to build muscle? |
| 0:44.6 | Can you do it to increase strength? |
| 0:45.9 | Can you do it to burn fat? |
| 0:47.0 | Can you only do body weight training and build the physique that you want? |
| 0:51.7 | Well, the answer is yes, and you can probably save your joints in the process, |
| 0:54.6 | but there is caveats here and there's pros and cons, and there's a way around everything, |
| 0:59.7 | there's a reason for everything, and there is no one-size-fits-all. So what is cool about this |
| 1:05.5 | podcast is that I sat down and I talk to a guy who only trains body weight. He goes around |
| 1:10.3 | the world teaching certifications. |
| 1:11.9 | He writes phenomenal books for Dragon Door that sell out completely across the world, I'm sure, |
| 1:17.8 | has a crazy YouTube channel. Like this guy is very, very well known, and all he does is body weight |
| 1:23.7 | training. But the coolest part about him, the thing I respected so much and what I |
| 1:28.3 | really loved about this interview is that he is not dogmatic. Every single time I opposed a question |
| 1:33.6 | to him or I asked him something about body weight training and assumed he would give me a dogmatic |
| 1:38.6 | biased opinion about it, telling me why body weight training is better, given that he is, I mean, he's all about |
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