Knowra Calisthenics Calisthenics Calisthenics is physical training built around body-weight movements such as push-ups, squats, and pull-ups. It develops strength, flexibility, endurance, and coordination with little or no equipment.
Progressive overload : A training principle in which exercise demands increase over time to prompt adaptation. Calisthenics can increase difficulty through more repetitions, harder variations, or added load.
Push-up : A body-weight exercise in which the body is lowered and raised using the arms while held in a prone position. It is a basic horizontal pushing exercise and a common calisthenics progression starting point.
Street workout : A form of outdoor fitness centered on body-weight exercises and routines performed on bars and other public structures. It turns calisthenics into a public, skill-oriented training practice.
Weight training : Exercise that uses external resistance, such as barbells, dumbbells, or machines, to develop strength. External loads allow resistance to increase directly, unlike many body-weight progressions.
Ancient Greek athletics : The organized physical contests and training practices of ancient Greek societies. The word calisthenics derives from Greek roots associated with beauty and strength.
Mechanical advantage : The ratio between the force applied by a system and the force it produces. Changing limb position alters leverage and makes a body-weight movement easier or harder.
Pull-up : An upper-body exercise in which a person raises the body toward a bar using an overhand grip. It develops vertical pulling strength using the body as resistance.
Gymnastics : A sport involving strength, flexibility, balance, and controlled movements performed on apparatus or the floor. Gymnastic skills use body-weight strength and coordination developed through calisthenics.
Resistance band : An elastic band used to provide adjustable resistance during exercise. Bands can assist difficult calisthenics movements or add resistance to easier ones.
Physical culture : A movement emphasizing systematic exercise and bodily development, especially prominent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Modern calisthenics inherited physical culture’s emphasis on disciplined, accessible exercise.
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