 Welcome back to the school of calisthenics podcast Q&A number 11 11. Do I have to stay this close? I don't know. It looks pretty big so I imagine it can pick you back away from them You'll have noticed that things have stepped up a notch If you listen you may or may not have noticed. Yeah, you won't but what we've got describe it for the people Dave We've got We're not that subtle really the school of casting soon. We've got podcast. We've got podcast Mike. It's podcast Mike. It's massive It's big. It's good though. You could do some. My my thoughts are all the gear. No idea. Yes It sums us up perfectly and if you yeah, there's a little bit. There's another story behind us But that's for another time, but we knew what was really going on with this. Let's not get bogged down. Yes in the fight It's number 11 and it is professional That's what that's that's it to me says big time. Yeah big time podcast big time Big time guys. Okay. We just need to be big time to stand up, right? So we need some big time questions and then today we're mixing it up And we're gonna share there's any real way that was fair to share the Question master thing the question master ring the question question master ring dual question masters So you you're you're excited about this one I've got one which I'm saving and it came upon it on YouTube and I've Intentionally not asked it to you or told you the question because I want to get you a reaction But I'm gonna save that for my second question. So I'm gonna warm you up Okay, with a question from does Brad dad does Brad Brad. Yes. Is that is real is that is real is that is real Every time is that is real. Hi guys. I'm 44 never done calisthenics before I've always done triathlons and marathons, etc. But slowing down now. I want to start building myself a bit What is the first thing I should do when starting on the calisthenics journey? Very first thing the very first thing he needs to do What I thought you're gonna I thought you're gonna be completely on brandon and get a very first thing But then I just thought that was clearly the first thing he needs to do is download our free beginners guide Which believe probably of about 50,000 people have now something like that Yes, that's free. There's I think 15 video tutorials in that for push Pushing pulling and core and a lot of them probably two-thirds then we can do that any equipment So I don't know I'm looking at you so you can do that any equipment so You can just get cracking with that at home and then Raid our flipping YouTube channel because there's loads of great content around there We're really passionate about getting beginner starters We know how difficult it is to get started in class there if you watch the amazing video from like yeah, Frank I don't maybe even one of Tim's amazing videos and you go like I want to be able to do that And that's amazing, but where the hell do I start and I think there's some of the interest It's interesting to me having trained a lot of athletes in the past from various different sports I think I think when I count them up I've trained athletes in over 30 different sports. I've seen a lot of different body types and how people move and That's Brad Brad. Yeah mentions that he's done triathlons and marathons now those things in my experience Yeah, I'm not the most conducive to upper-body strength swimming, but it's probably lungs is maybe But it might be when you start off at the beginning the real focus is just basics Yeah, just get those things now down I'm not saying you that I'm making massive assumptions But a lot of the marathon runners that I know they don't spend a lot of time in the gym They don't spend a lot of time in the you don't need you don't need it The strength to weight ratio sport is optimizing your body composition so that you can perform those things better And that that's ideal for that type of discipline of sport event of sport But coming into calisthenics You can probably get attracted by some of the sexy stuff But we would I would proportion my time out so that I was focusing on absolute basics So what my pull-ups like push-ups dips Variations of those different sorts of things body weight rows are all the sorts of stuff that we've put in the beginner's guide We aren't we genuinely put that that guide out not because we were just trying to flog something but genuinely because we came from a point of Starting calisthenics and we both played rugby and done a decent amount of strength training in the past So we were starting a point which meant that we actually had some of those kind of Movement competes instances in terms of pull-ups and stuff sorted and we put that together because you know Difficult is and actually the real thing from our strength and conditioning background is that People go here's how to do a pull-up But there's there's such variety in that and you'll see from a video that we've broken it down And we kind of focus on the important parts of it as Dave says if you get into that guy And you sort of one pull-up is difficult There's also on the YouTube three or four different videos on how to progress pull-ups using different tools And that sort of stuff and this and on the blog on the website schoolcast.com There's a load of other things around there for like a lot of that A lot of our content and that respect Is based around helping beginners get started in one foot up on onto the next next wrong or where to go after that The one thing I think I would say just as an aside Yeah, is that you would when you're starting a new form of training It's quite a good opportunity to implement better practices So one of the things that we do which is really important It's something I do at the beginning of every single session the same things are athletes is getting into habit of doing some form of movement preparation So we talked to a lot of people in a glass stretching mobility is kind of doesn't really get done If you get into calisthenics, just take that as part of calisthenics that improve your shoulder range of movement looking after your Sort of structure integrity improving posture Making sure that you're not waiting for an injury to stop you and force you into that But he's actually becoming part of day-to-day what you do I just think when you come into something from the beginning you've got a great opportunity to start with a blank piece of paper go what is best for me and my recommendation is that that movement preparation Some phone rolling He's not done potentially not done much upper-body work And certainly I've done some of the stuff he's gonna go into and look after do some do some prep work I saw at your shoulders and your wrists I would say because you're not gonna keep those two things intact job in the middle probably be alright. Yeah, and then They just won't be used to some of the stuff you do in and so just touch on that in terms of when someone's coming Into it the adaptation around ligaments and tendons and that sort of well just taking so much longer that they were gonna You're gonna end up putting a lot more strain through your connective tissue Which is one thing it's not gonna be used to it And it's gonna be a bit of a short system and the other is because of a restricted blood supply to it And that sort of thing it's gonna take it takes a little longer for it to adapt so Tim used coined a phrase a while ago use the use earn the right to progress So take your time with it don't try to always just mistake I make tough and he's trying to just push and push and push and like do the next thing the next thing rather than actually When he's starting out get really comfortable like Tim said with those basics look after your shoulders look after your wrists and then that though all those sort of Connective tissue niggles can hopefully you can keep them to a minimum and yeah the downside of is you doing something Which he highly accustomed to his high tension Yeah, he overloads you much you're gonna end up with a bit of a niggle and that stops you from training and it's difficult Because calisthenics is exciting and one of the great things about it is when you first start that rate of progression And how hard you might have worked to improve your marathon PB Yeah, you first start calisthenics You'd be like crack you've been banging away these running all these miles It's just to try and knock a few seconds off and you're literally gonna go from win one week to next mastermind progress And that's why it's addictive, but just put the brakes on a little bit. Yeah take your time You may well choose to ignore that because I probably would have done it That's what yeah, if you listen to us and read enough stuff There's I'm trying to remember the name of the title There's a couple of blogs as one in particular was like ten things to do when you start calisthenics or three Mistakes think we shared on a different blog three mistakes We made when we started that we'd recommend you don't do and I would I would take Take that advice on board definitely. I think we both agreed if we started again right now Rather than being three and a half years in yeah, and we did things that I know because I know myself I'd I struggle with the discipline of doing what I should do But if I did I'd be in a much further place forward. Yeah, we've made a lot of mistakes And but that's part of the journey about being a coach like we make these mistakes We cut them out so you can learn faster and that's enough good Okay, so question number two comes from me, but I'm gonna read out Maybe next thing we can bring in our own questions is from Pedro Martins and He is comes in straight off the right He's probably should have gone first because he starts with loving the podcast guys tip Thank you So He's got a couple of questions We're gonna go into the first one. This is an important one His second question was about keto diets, which we'll worry about another day so he won the first one is one he wants answering most and It's a little bit about injury prevention, I guess he says he's got a question about strengthening wrists He says his right wrist is really weak And that's with an a not double a as he's spelt it Okay And hurts like a mother Well, no because he hasn't really got like the app and then an hand sign. Yeah, you know, I mean So it hurts a lot when his palm is on the ground in a press up position or like a handstand position But when he goes into doing push-ups on his knuckles, he likes doing martial arts, so they like doing push-ups on knuckles. It's fine So what can you suggest and is there any like exercise you could do to try and strengthen it? And actually I want my I'm gonna just tweak his question a little bit for you in terms of going like We should be asking is it a strengthening issue or is it an injury like what do you think? Might be going on and what advice have we got for him, right? Is that better? Yes, right that twist up on it Pedro Pedro first thing. Oh, and he left his telephone number. I won't read that out. Okay. Um Okay, first thing without seeing it and knowing more about in your injury history. I feel that I can't give you a 100% Solution But we can potentially talk around some things but my my first piece of advice we go and get checked out good bye a physiotherapist Yes, that would be my first point because it could be some stuff going on So I'm gonna just gonna I'm gonna spit ball a little bit My wife is broken both wrists She has problems in the same position And I literally she's been complaining about it for a while and I said go and see the physio go and see the physio He's in the physio yet Go and see the physio. So she's now booked an appointment. She's going to ask. Yeah. Um, how long ago she broke it? well, mate over I Don't know the first time we went snowboarding together. She broke it and that was 10 years ago And then she broke it again about four years ago the other side snowboarding and we're going to snowboard in March That's important. I think she gets a sort of yeah, however, even as a strength and conditioning coach with it Yeah, with some body of experience and I don't feel that that's something for me to check out And I also feel even if we were sat here as physiotherapists without seeing you agree you actually You can't go well, it's this and therefore do these exercises like you need to see somebody hands-on But the reason for that potential for giving the martial arts Experience when I did a little bit of kickboxing I had issues around skateboard and not catching with bags and stuff properly My wrists weren't great for a period of time You could strap them which may help Give a little bit of support or I use wrist wraps around in a quite a lot of Handstand or vertical pushing work particularly not as much for handstands for push-up. Sorry Those sorts of things help, but it they could be masking up a problem From a soft tissue perspective there may be some tightness in the forearm Flexors or extensors. We've got a video which we did around relieving some wrist pain Which we can link to that might worth checking out But if it's that painful where it's actually stopping you from doing something like that My recommendation would be to get some time to look at it You need to get hands-on they need to feel the quality of the movement and I'm gonna spin this into something We get a lot of questions from people who ask us. I've got back pain when I do this I've got shoulder pain when I do that like Yes, if you were in the room with us, we might be able to give you a little bit of advice as to what the course of action might be But to anybody listed who feels like they want to send us one of those questions What we're gonna say is go and see a physio every single time with we're working professional sport That's the same approach when we take the athletes We're not able to give that sort of detail advice because it's just not fair on you because we can't see you We don't want to put you at more risk So we just much rather tell you to go make an investment in seeing somebody who can sort out for you So that's I just pick up on one thing the interesting that Wrists extended this hand on the floor pain in neutral position fine on the knuckle So and we get that a lot of time with people when they're trying to do Frog stones for the first time and the wrist if I've got an issue with the wrist They don't like it. Yeah, go on to like some little handbars on the floor and keep that wrist in that neutral position Then then it's sort of it's fine. That's what you're saying the same sort of thing Yeah, she's okay. Yeah, she's not good So that so that could be something around like you were saying something around like you your flexes being tight So you can't extend very well or actually you've got some sort of issue in the joint and needs to be addressed and you can't Determine what you know So you might get a bit of if you did some forearm release of those those flexes you might get it might be a little bit more Comfortable in extension, but you still are you saying we might be hiding the fact that you've got an issue around you Your wrist in the joint that needs to be addressed and if you're going to speak to the physio I would just give them a little bit more Conventional feedback on yes those two those two positions hurts like that doesn't hurt in neutral But then also what the type of pain is That it's like dull or it's Stabby or it's pinchy rather than it hurts like a mother. Yeah, that's it no swearing and You What I was gonna say Dave. Yeah, what was I gonna say tell the physio? What you're gonna do like tell them that you're trying to learn to handstand because it makes a big difference And also my recommendation is a lot of people say I've seen physios before didn't tell you anything See capsule one good. Go and see someone who's working with athletes If that means you have to pay a little bit more for it. It's worth it's worth it good for you good physio is worth it We're gonna go to the right. I hope that helps. Yes. I think it's an important issue of address now I'm looking forward to this person with that so Tim has said been Tim has been saying this is gonna be a really funny one I think and this is the last question I'm interested sir, and I don't know this but like guys you didn't know what Pedro's question I didn't we actually do all these straight off the cuff right Rob Roddy three. Oh, no, sorry Rob Roddy three days ago That was a copy. Is that how is that his name Rob Roddy? So his surname isn't three days ago I think that's Rob Rod Roddy Roddy. It's like the tongue twister. Hey, bud. Just became a sub. Yeah guilty Thanks. Thanks Rob I sub I like on that. Yeah, so before we did YouTube. I didn't know it's called subbed just subbed subbed Michael When I played rugby if I was subbed. That was really bad. Yeah, I've been looking at your vids and have to say You have huge cars Did you grow your cars by body weight or sprints or something like that Legit that is Both of us I went back and went so wrong you taking the piss Yes, no, no, sit we got a conversation serious Is it where is this conversation been on YouTube or where's the YouTube? Oh, I've missed it hidden away from you It's not the question the whole question. You've got huge cars. How'd you go? I'm like, he's definitely not talking about me Maybe the first Painting people on the podcast We've got me cousin go on Tim show us you at least have a car for no go on Give me see me. I think we've got very similar like halves like half twins He might be the first person to ever say that I've ever compliment our loved one. I've never had. Yeah You'd be like, do you like slugs? I normally get Normally my favorite one is to go a nice car to him. Did they come in men's? Yeah That's Charlie's no I gave Charlie that because someone gave it someone said it to me and I gave it to anyway So No, the answer is we have we don't have cars in our training routine. No, so like I Although some there's interesting like I've never been like mad keen on car phrase and whatnot I don't know the science behind it, but I think there's some like some parts of your body like Genetic deposition plays a big role in like I don't know if I spent all day every day doing car phrases How much bigger I get mine whereas, you know, you see some Some like rubbers a great example like some of the props would have like an enormous car But they're like big blokes. It's almost like they need them more and I'm a bit more of a traditionally More than I didn't train to the story of cars. Go on the function of what the car does I don't see some people who go like flipping my father-in-law huge cars. Oh really? Yeah, like as big as my leg Yeah, yeah, but not very explosive. Yeah, I was trained a basketball player who is Six foot ten six foot eleven Yeah, like you look at his car for it was like all Achilles tendon tendon tendon tendon tendon tendon and then there's ballers thing At the top and this guy could jump right so the tendon produces a yeah Achilles tendon produce a huge amount of force So for sprinting for running people that got quite long tendons. They can produce more force more explosive So your props. Yeah, fat chunky car. Most of them just trundle around Not the most electric kind of sprinters not all but largely speaking Yeah, you know, I mean, I know exactly different kind of body makeup So yeah, you're out of that that I've also not really ever done any car phrase exercise The sprinters will use it as a capacity exercise because the ability to stay high on the toe When we sprinting with trainings or tracks printers, we don't really want a tall as a heel hitting the ground So we want them up on the toes a whole time. So I still think sorry I still think he's taking the piss and I clarify I check with him We're going to some detail. Yeah, no, I'm just calisthenics But Jack I'm gonna bring it back round of both play field running based sports since a very young age So I've it's never been a focus of mine, but we have I've spent a lot of time doing a sprint work That was the only thing that I was good at really it will be I was quite quick I'm not very big So I just used to try and be fast and everybody else and not get hit by people are much bigger than me Yeah, and that was all I had and my car was probably tell us if you look at my car It's probably I've got a reasonable Kind of just make up of what I was describing before not quite as good as the basketball player trained. Yeah, and I My so yes, and I still think he's taking the piss So he's probably having a great time listening to this game. I can't believe I've got them to talk about their cars I couldn't resist it when he came up with a jacket. Well, my only my only thing is like my only worry is that like The question is round like the aesthetics part of the car And being like that is just not something to worry about because I don't think you make an awful lot of a lot of change To that it's more like what the the hand you were dealt. Yeah, you return on investment in car training is pretty minimal Yeah, even if so when we talk about using it with an athlete with a sprinter It's because we want them to stay high on that toe. Yeah, it's for a performance outcome We're not go. We don't look at the go your cars look a little bit For the photo finish at the end. We want them to just even them out a little bit and and yeah, and so My thing is just don't flip and worry about it. We Yeah, but I will okay, but there will be some people know that well, that's not the other thing You're not touched on is this strategy that you've taken about wearing more high-top socks. Yeah, that's a great strategy That's actually from other people about that Okay, it was from what's the guy's name he's big on YouTube we need to shout him out Dom Dom Yeah That's it very science. It was like you got small cars You take you have a white height for hypo on your socks I haven't got me socks on to spilt some water and trolling it, but it's going to show you've got your you've got the socks on show us the Show us look so what so look so look it for those on can you see so can we see chairs making terrible noise? Hang on get your legs up No, I don't keep them down keep them down. Is that there's a mic in the way So you can see now a Tim's car Socolo, that's it. Let's talk a lot. This is really weird. That's how no car looks really small now bang Hi, Paul now look at that sold. Don't need to worry that you watch you listen podcast You might that is what you're missing. Oh, yeah, go watch. Yeah, go and check that bit. I Feel like yeah, it's been a slightly different take on normal. It has and Q&A Content, however, I enjoyed it more. Yeah, I hope people have found that we've lost some at least an Average banter as a result of that so thanks for the questions guys There's always keep them coming in we try to pick we answer a few directly online And then we'll try and pick out the ones which I think are gonna make Jack a laugh Or that we think are gonna be helpful to other people if you tell us that you like what we're doing then you'll probably Automatically go up into a short list You make it away from the long list immediately But you can ask questions on Facebook Twitter in the comments below on YouTube email us anywhere Get in contact form ring Dave. Yeah, my phone. I'm so much that ring Text me be easier Yeah, if you haven't yet subscribed click that up by Tim's head if he moves out there We go bang if you haven't got a free beginner's guide. That's down by Tim's elbow And then for last the last Q&A which for Q&A 10 that's over by me. So until next time class dismissed