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Comment by netbioserror

6 hours ago

Calisthenics is a really easy way to push intensity at basically 0 risk of injury. They're all compound and depending on the variation could require high reps, but between push ups, pull-ups, squats, their numerous variations, and accessory work, I would challenge anyone to actually injure themselves while also being able to push to true technical failure.

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torben-friis  6 hours ago

It is very possible to injure yourself with calisthenics. Shoulder impingement or tendinitis from pullups with too much intensity/bad form for example. Weight is weight.

  • robotresearcher  17 minutes ago

    Ugh, tendonitis recovery is so slow and annoying in middle age. I had to stop training pull-ups for the best part of a year. Starting again now, but easing in gently as I'm very motivated to not have that again. I'm 220lb/100kg so even if strong enough that's a lot of weight on unadapted tendons.

mapotofu  6 hours ago

This is not good advice and please remove the “basically 0 risk of injury” wording. Mobility is a limiting factor and poor body positioning WILL result in injury. Barbells are safe, progressively overloadable, and learning to move them is a straight line is what most people need to do before a lot of calisthenics training. Most people can’t even do 1 pull up.

wiredfool  6 hours ago

From my son's experience in calisthenics and looking around at the group he sometimes trains with, there are definitely a lot of overload/overuse injuries, at a range from just needing rest to bicep tears.