Hand Book Of Calisthenics And Gymnastics

The ultimate guide to bodyweight exercises for anyone interested in taking their workouts to the next level without the use of weights, machines, or expensive gym memberships Complete Calisthenics is an essential guide for anyone interested in losing weight, building core strength, and taking their workouts to the next level. Author and trainer Ashley Kalym has designed a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to calisthenics using only one's own bodyweight for resistance. Readers will learn how to execute a wide range of exercises such as push-ups, pull-ups, core development movements, and lower-body routines. Also included are easy-to-follow instructions for the planche, the front and back lever, handstands, handstand push-ups, muscle-ups, leg training, and other key exercises. Complete Calisthenics includes essential information on workout preparation, simple props, nutrition, and an assortment of diverse training routines. New to this second edition are enhanced muscle-building exercises, instructions for optimal rest and recovery, and an assortment of original recipes. Kalym also includes samples from his personal food diary. With over 500 instructional photos, Complete Calisthenics takes readers on a path to creating physical endurance, agility, and power. The book is suitable for every level of athlete, from beginner to experienced.

Excerpt from Hand-Book of Calisthenics and Gymnastics: A Complete Drill-Book for Schools, Families, and Gymnasiums, With Music to Accompany the Exercises Part second, under the head of Calisthenics, exhibits the most extended and varied course of exercises, without the aid of apparatus, ever published. It also embraces all needful directions, rules, and explanations for instructors and students and all varieties of mark ing time, while executing the movements, by counting, Phonetics, Recitations, and Music. Nineteen pieces of appropriate Pianoforte Music are introduced in their proper connections. Those not com posed expressly for this work are selected and arranged from the choicest productions of the ablest masters. To G. F. Bristow and H. B. Dodworth, gentlemen whose merits as musicians and composers are generally recognized, the author is greatly indebted for valuable assistance, freely and generously afforded, in this department Of his work. He is also happy to acknowledge himself under equal Obliga tions to Miss C. Hutchings, Of New York, for corresponding aid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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