G-Fitness

Sometimes the best thing you can do for your training… is nothing ⚠️

One of the biggest mistakes we make in training is assuming more = better.

More sets.
More reps.
More sessions.
More muscle-ups.
More skill attempts.

But training is a stimulus. The actual adaptation happens afterwards.

You stress the muscles, tendons, joints and nervous system through training then you need to give your body the opportunity to recover and adapt to that stress.

And this becomes especially important with calisthenics.

Your muscles might feel capable of doing another 100 reps, while your wrists, elbows, shoulders and tendons are struggling to keep up.

The same goes for skills.

50 exhausted muscle-up attempts aren’t necessarily better than 5–10 quality attempts while fresh.

It’s not about avoiding hard training I massively believe in training hard.

It’s about understanding the difference between training hard with purpose and simply doing more because you feel like more must equal more progress.

Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is take the rest day.

Leave the rep in the tank.

Finish the session while you’re still moving well.

Take the deload.

Recover.

The longer you train, the more you realise that discipline isn’t only knowing when to push.

It’s also knowing when not to.

Train hard enough to give your body a reason to adapt.

Then give it the opportunity to actually do it.

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I’ve been training high-volume endurance calisthenics for the last 4-5 years ⏳

Sets. Reps. Rounds. Endurance. A lot of time spent on the bars.

And something I hear every now and again is:

“You can’t train like that forever.”
“That volume will catch up with you.”
“You’re going to destroy your body.”

But I don’t really see it that way.

Some of the athletes who inspire me most have been training this way for 10, 15, even 20+ years.

They’re still strong.
Still capable.
Still training.
Still inspiring the next generation.

Of course, high volume comes with risk. So does any serious level of training.

But I don’t believe volume itself is the enemy.

The body adapts to what you consistently prepare it for.

The real skill is learning how to manage that volume, building your capacity gradually, understanding when to push and when to pull back, respecting injuries, prioritising recovery and adjusting your training as your body changes.

There’s a massive difference between doing too much too soon and spending years building a body capable of doing more.

I’m five or six years into this style of training now, and I still feel like I’m learning how to do it better.

My goal isn’t to see how much punishment my body can survive.

It’s to build a body that can keep performing for decades.

And when I look at the athletes who are 10 or 20 years further down that road than me, still moving, still strong and still putting in the work…

That doesn’t make me afraid of longevity.

It makes me excited for it 🌱

I first started training for a completely different reason than I do now.

Growing up I was always skinny. In the first photo I’m around 58kg, and when I first got into the gym, the goal was simple gain size, build muscle and look bigger.

And I did. But the problem with having “getting bigger” as the goal was that the goalposts just kept moving. There was always another few kilos to gain, another body part to improve, another number I wanted to hit.

I was basically measuring my success against some future version of myself that didn’t even exist yet. Instead of appreciating the progress I was making in the moment, I was constantly thinking I’d be happier or more satisfied when I got there.

And comparison only made that worse. Even when I was progressing, it rarely felt like enough because there was always someone further ahead to measure myself against.

Eventually, it took a lot of the enjoyment out of training.

Finding calisthenics completely changed my relationship with it.

Instead of training just to look a certain way, I started training for something. To get stronger. Learn new skills. Improve my endurance. Move better. Perform better. And most importantly, actually enjoy what I was doing.

My goals now still move that’s part of training but the difference is I don’t need to reach some future version of myself for the process to feel worthwhile. I get something from the training itself 🙌

Now at around 73kg, I’m in better shape than I ever originally set out to be but ironically, the physique isn’t the goal anymore.

It’s a byproduct.

A byproduct of years spent doing something I genuinely love. Chasing performance, learning, getting stronger and having fun with training.

58kg → 73kg.

The physical change is obvious, but changing my relationship with training has probably been the biggest transformation of all

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