Why Did We Start With Calisthenics? | Q&A Ep. 1

what's up guys mike uyama Gobert from

Kennison expand me and welcome to our

first Q&A

you

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so as you can see we are filming some

new videos and some new instructional

videos for a new upcoming program which

will be called the full journey and this

exercise was part of the new program

called the intermediate one level 2 so

this next week it will include the

beginner program intermediate program

advanced program and the professional

program yes exactly and it will take you

like from a zero beginner from nothing

until the stage that we're at today so

it will include all the exercises that

we have done in the past two years that

has led us to the stages we are at right

now and we have set out the program in

different levels and also different

requirements and goals and you can work

up to so it's like a full adventure that

we have done with the two of us together

and now we're gonna spread that with you

guys so you can also jump in at a

certain level and come out like a

pro so stay tuned for the

program that will come out next week

exactly all right guys welcome to the

Q&A before we get started we want to

mention two things we are organizing two

events the first one is our own bargain

our bargain is a meet-up it will be this

Saturday so in two days so what is the

bar job the bargain is an event

organised by us and everyone is welcome

it's just like a meter a calcination

community meetup in Holland the goal of

this day is to learn from each other to

pray together work out together meet new

people and most important just to learn

new stuff and actually get to know with

calisthenics all right guys so what is

the plan of this day we will do several

activities and one of the main things is

a Showtime we will do a Showtime for

like one hour like 30 minutes and this

means that everyone can show his best

set of skills and everyone can just do

it next to each other so it will be like

really challenging and also fun to see

and the next thing is a we're gonna do

like a battle but it's not a competition

you have we have like in the Netherlands

we have met many competitions and many

battles and we also have joined battles

but this day is not about winning it's

about learning from each other so we

will do but to make it fun we will do a

few battles and we're gonna do a maximum

handstand hold a maximum Beckley for

hold and also maximum muscle ups and

we're gonna do this all together so that

will be really fun and to see who's the

last man standing and for example with

the handstand

all right guys to the next event that we

are organizing is a workshop a workshop

by Artem Morozov we are inviting our

tent to the Netherlands and he's gonna

do actually two workshops right a a

straight arm workshop and the event our

workshop they both take three hours and

maybe for those who don't know who are

tomorrow's of s he is one of the best

Russian athletes out there and the best

athletes of calisthenics with like eight

years of experience so it's actually an

honor for us that we can invite him to

the Netherlands and to let him show his

skills to like yeah to to grow that the

knowledge in the Netherlands right so

those two workshop will happen at the

same day the first one in the morning

the other one in the afternoon but the

street our workshop is already sold out

actually so if you want to join the bent

arm a day then make sure to be quick

because we expect it to sell out like

within a week or something yeah

definitely there are only a few spots

left and you really don't want to miss

out on this one because Artem will focus

and will share his knowledge about like

hand side push-ups 19 degree push-ups

muscle ups one-arm pull-ups and also

basic exercises to learn and to get to

know with calisthenics from the very

beginning so it's not only for advanced

people but also for beginners and also

guys I can really encourage you to go to

this workshop because

I actually went to a workshop of artha

and myself in December and I followed a

flanch workshop and he also discussed

some basic exercises including handstand

push-ups and also bent arm exercises and

that workshop has helped me so much with

my own planche

journey because then because after that

workshop I knew the right technique I

knew so many exercises that I could do

to learn the planche and yeah it's just

really helpful so I definitely encourage

you and recommend you to join us and

also for sure we're gonna join this

workshop as well because we are still

learning and we are only doing

calisthenics for two years now and that

man is doing it for nine eight to nine

years so for sure he's got to learn of

something right exactly and it's good to

mention this event will happen at the

22nd of September and of course we are

also joining so we hope to see you there

and if you guys have any questions about

one of these offense then just let us

know in the comments or send us an email

alright guys so that was it about the

defense so let's go on with the Q&A that

some questions were in Dutch and the

most questions we're in English so we

might do a few questions in Dutch and

the most in English all right guys so

the first question is how long have you

been training calisthenic how long we

have been training calisthenics for two

years now we started in September 2016

and we will make a two-year calisthenics

transformation video very soon so yes

what our progression exercises for the

straight arm - hanson press alright guys

so progression exercises for the

straight after

are actually all the exercises where

you'll have a straight arm so that can

be a handstand straight arm and stand

against them to else it would straight

on Elsa - Hanson straight arm also helps

it to blanch a thick flange like a Peter

reason really you have a straight part

because that's the hardest part of this

yes and also for the straight arm -

ensign press it's really important that

you are flexible in your hamstrings

because most people are not flexible

enough to get the feet of the ground and

to keep straight legs while moving up so

that's also really important and you can

improve this by doing a lots of forward

folding alright guys so the next

question is how tall are you guys and

how much do you away right I am one

meter and 82 centimeters and a little

bit longer one meter an 87 centimeter

and I currently weigh this morning I

check my my weight and it was seven days

wait I have it right here actually

yesterday it was 75 point 62 grams and a

baby for 76 I checked my way every

morning because I'm trying to lose a

little bit weight so I can so I'm line

it so I can perform for it with exercise

better and I am I think I didn't weigh

myself for like two weeks but I think

that I am like 81 82 kilograms so a

little more heavy weight than me yes

but I'm also trying to cut down my body

weight who are your inspiration and

motivation well I have different

inspirations and motivated different

inspirations and motivators like

business wise and also like sports wise

athletes that I look up to our host

Waldo for sure because yeah he's amazing

Blanche of strength but also gallows a

journal for his flexibility it's so it's

so cool to us to have to like so much

flexibility with also so much strength

at the same time and also have games

yeah

actually have zero that brings me to the

third person which is awesome dinner

awesome than that for sure yes he's

actually so huge and so strong at the

same time that's absolutely a Michael

and I think yours as well yes actually

one of my favorite youtubers and the

reason why I personally started YouTube

is actually because us and Donna in the

early days I always watch this videos

and at the certain point I just started

to do the first youtube video and we

also have one other of two actually two

other persons athletes and those are

dutch persons and those are tony killing

from bodyweight sports and that's

because he's just so good at the

freestyle and that's one of my goals as

well but not for now that's for a later

period when I mastered aesthetics and

also news town he's just his strength is

amazing so these we're more the athletes

that we look up to more sports wise and

also business-wise we definitely look up

to some people and those are for you for

me

kiss area for sure so I met him twice

now and he's always so busy doing news

new things he set up 10x all on his own

his journey has been so long so amazing

from an insane athlete to like one of

the biggest calisthenics companies in

the world and he still make new content

every week new products new s and on the

other hand that's one of our friends

actually in Addis Marais

we know Moran from early age from high

school actually and we have seen him

grow like week by week year by year and

his passion for like making new moves

every year doing impulsive stuff

motivates us to keep working and like to

create new things as well actually yeah

exactly

so these were the inspirations and

motivators for us alright so that brings

us to the next question which is

actually above moraine

how is moraine doing and what is his

worker plan he has with you guys

Ryan is actually doing great with his

calisthenics

he has been doing calisthenics for five

weeks now and we made a personal custom

program for him

in which we focus on three different

skills the the handstand the Beckley

four and the front leaver and we

designed the program for him so he can

alternate between his like gym weight

lifting workouts and calisthenics so he

can combine it and I think he's actually

doing really great he can hold that

incident for five seconds now that's his

best attempt and he couldn't do one

second and

for the back knee four and firmly but he

definitely will get there he says strong

that man he is it got the strong back so

he's making some progress already too

and he is actually now to California and

he brought our Baroness as well so we

are really looking forward to his health

and gains for the next coming three

weeks what are your thoughts on energy

drinks and free workout

well for energy drinks I think what

drives me is the caffeine for energy

drinks we used to take energy drinks

before after workout we know it's not

really healthy but we became kind of

like addicted to it to this yes

eventually the monsters yes the Mounties

but for sure without calories without

any sugars but nowadays I actually do

not really drink energy anymore it's

actually not really good for your health

and for your heart as well so we

actually stopped using it but sometimes

when we like really tired to something

then we take still a energy drink but

not that much anymore and about free

workouts we actually never did free

workout so you know we can really judge

about this let's move on to the next

question someone said I have a test

tomorrow

do you have any tips on decreasing reps

path oh now you're on the right address

man

I actually made a full video about this

topic on how you go um how I personally

go get from 60 push-ups to 110 push-ups

which is my personal record you can

check it right here and for now my best

tip if you have just one day to get to

increase reps fast

that's not possible you need more more

more time but for now you can increase

your push-ups really fast if you do it a

few times per day so my best tip is that

you do like in the in the morning you

start with doing push-ups for like if

your record is 50 then you do 50 pushups

and then in the afternoon you're gonna

try to beat those 50 pushes for example

55 push-ups and in the evening you're

gonna try it again and and every time

you try to beat your current record so

you can increase just by ROM rep that's

enough and just the next day take one

day off and then you do it over again

and also train with weights so next

questions for you actually for me

alright so this is the first Dutch

question in English it says why are you

guys so huge and it in touch it

is why I'm saying it is so clearing late

there are about seven or eight now over

speedometer this Matt calisthenics for

all the planks is called consistent Lena

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down house and so our focus here at like

minimal trick perfectly marshmallow just

get baked so I'm not gonna

Misaka for the same things gifted by

another now trade 3 Alan Alan Foster ice

cream as annoyed no that thing skip and

the others I think the key or hoto and

Hui and then a synthetic blood like a

hood foolish Patrol discriminate and oh

I bet if Corey data

yeah and that is she training at obey

yourself allocated for break in fact see

doc doc man's act like the self the

store training LK dude my evil act like

a fake new opening and doing and ELCA

training obey harder footing and yada

of course very LK to break and those

like tainted me week on queer what is

your workout split at the moment for me

now it's on Monday it's a straight arm

workout so skill that I do flinch from

need for it on Tuesday it's instant on

Wednesday it's bent arm day so then I

focus on muscle ups and handstand

push-ups and Thursday it's leg leg day

and core and on Friday and Sunday again

and set the mobility and on Saturday I

do freestyle and this is not like

freestyle at the park with this a day

when I can just choose to do whatever I

want and I also make sure that I do the

branch and from the car again and the

back

so it's like more maintaining fuller

exercises all right so the next question

and this is a nice question who has

bigger arms Michael or a Yannick well

that's right uh let's try it out

well we don't know actually but you guys

can decide so here it is that one oh

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my that's one

I think it depends on booths more like

in front let's switch up switch up

switching sides maximum all right guys

you can decide put it in the comments

who has bigger arms me or yo Mike

let us know in the comments exactly this

one is in Dutch again how do you need

full-on presume to ply for hater and

need to filter cheatin wife or result of

life either it's either like best simple

third of x8 and iPhone authorised Sue's

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entry conditions what no sir

also none first for something to inform

sometimes can you hear that

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yeah that's I flick all right in your

life so today yeah they do menu all we

are in fear of the day semitone adieu

and falls back to call investor alright

so the next question is in anger see how

long did it take for me one like for me

to do it for me full about how long did

it take for a one that for me for -

lately I've started with the front leaf

for in January and and it took me six

months to go from a advance differently

for three full from labor and advanced

text version is actually harder than the

one leg because with the advance then

you're open you are opening your hips

which makes it harder so I would say six

months alright six months

next question another question for you

okay

this one is in Dutch and what is the

best money of Blanche claiming the best

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the you workout stuff adayla

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okay that's the next question

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that muscle coma alright guys the next

question is how to build and cut at the

same time okay well that's really easy

if you want to increase in weight and

losing weight at the same time then you

should increase the calories on Monday

with 200 calories and then on Tuesday

you know where the calories with 200

again and then bro what a way doesn't

work well we when he wants to build and

good at the same time right

that's not possible I'm just getting

brows it's actually not possible to

build and good at the same time because

you can't increase in weights while

losing weight at the same time right so

you've got to make a decision if you

wanna book up blue and gain weight then

increase the calories or if you want to

lose in body fat then you shoot a lower

the calories and add more cardio

but guys next question in Dutch again

bonus are Julie percent imagine cleaning

it in today and spacing Cooper sauce

pool and push no it I click on that math

calisthenics Sagarika eclectic mirror

spirit alike

this fun dynamic ethnic all tied at the

upper body just like they should root n

push and pull this athlete MF and

scholar and worst thing all the leg

before but I share and Blanche dude

speaking so well the scholars on my oak

to bishops and of the earth account

whenever he let's split on this from

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daily and claim before him I obey not

merely the speaker who doesn't like by

the trainer and of dominica Hoke Parker

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cleaner and the desire to continue doing

and for homes if they only basically act

on a mere a frequent to train at the

sparker and opening dude I'm not sure

ain't repulse be who had more output how

long did it take to to get the handstand

well there's a difference between a

banana and sand or a really strict

handstand for me I shade the banana

hands and I could do it real fast

because at a certain point I thought I

want to do I want to do the handstand

and I trained for one hour every day for

like two or three weeks and after those

three weeks I could do a handstand but

like not a straight answer and it was a

banana instead the next question we

actually got two questions because they

are really similar

first one is how often do you guys work

out and second one is why don't you

train every day all right so we train

like four or five times per week and why

do you guys don't train every day and

that's because when we work out we are

mostly really sore in our muscles

especially when we have really high

intensity workouts for example when we

do a skill workout such as a pledge for

me for Becky who workout then the next

day and we are just too sore to work out

again and then we mostly do a low

intensity workouts and then for example

we focus on

instance or some mobility work and then

the day after we are like energized

again to do a full high-intensity

workout again guys don't forget to

stretch right here

Oh from alder sitting stretching this is

actually a really good stretch this one

and then rotate I I do this every day

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what made you guys start with

calisthenics this one goes back this one

goes away

yeah this one all right said this one I

think three years ago about the first

time that we actually heard of

calisthenics and when we saw

calisthenics we were just doing fitness

and we saw like videos and also other

people do I crazy stuff like yeah for us

it was great stuff like no scrubs and an

stance that was already really proved to

see I'm not really cool to do so we

decided to try these moves out for like

one one day per week and we enjoyed this

so much that we actually decided to

commit our full workout program to like

calisthenics instead of lifting weights

because we didn't get challenged enough

by doing weighted exercises like gym

exercises increasing the weights over

and over again that's why we actually

started doing calisthenics and we see

ourselves progress every training every

week new moves new skills that's a

little like the best thing when we start

with calisthenics every single workout

we have progress in some kind and some

different way yes especially in the

beginning then we train together and

then I saw you doing like what that's a

new cool move I want to do that as well

and then the next workout I had

something new and that's how we like

kept improving and progressing and

learning new things every week and so it

was more like a enjoyable thing then

wanted to become more aesthetic or

something like that yeah exactly

some energy drink ha ha ha just kidding

me why don't we have a bottle from

browny he should send us and then we can

use it in the videos yeah

I'll kill hey brownie if you see this

video then send us a bottle and then we

will use your one make sure that you

drink your water though all right guys

let's go back to the Q&A

and the next question gets in touch

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yes checker legs training I think he

meant a do you train like the with

straight legs well with most

calisthenics athletes say maybe don't

train the legs and we have to say that

we don't train the legs as much as the

upper body but we do train legs

sometimes actually when we train legs we

mostly do pistol squats

weighted pistol squats balance pistol

squats and we actually never made a

video about this so if you want to see a

video on us training our legs and how we

train the legs then make sure to comment

that below and then we will we might

make a video about that alright the next

question is in Dutch again who said that

much flexibility and later hide under

how do you read it Achmed opening and

stretching we've la Madame sake

flexibility cleaning motive in me for

you blank is for his skills on me fo for

your bayonet and we're straight like a

handstand straight like a foam that were

straight like Blanche at his overall

blog for yes a get a doom a phenom lick

it - its back for like a slopper

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or the forward folding and back bending

football and anklet with Lucas when you

can Trina for the pancake stretch with

the bank expression hiya the pancake

stretch the Charleston awesome paula

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so forward fold yeah there was power

let's hit the phones and the opening

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hill air met press to handstand and

stall the press and documenting yourself

of Mia for and Dana this the duty to a

cup of egg this equipment news when Eric

the pancake stretch girl next question

is for how long did you train the hands

and push it until you got a perfect one

before we started training with the

hands for the hands and push up we made

sure that we are good at Pike push-ups

so if you can't do like 10 Pike push-ups

then you should not do handstand

push-ups and before we train and as and

push it without the wall you should

first do it with the wall but it took us

like I think four months five months to

master one deep head is just not just

one regular 45 degrees handstand pushup

yeah we actually trained a lot with it

and it - yeah it really took us a way

longer than expected to do one single

Hanson

because if you use the world we actually

could do like Denver dishes yeah but we

could even do one but without the world

so it takes a lot longer than you think

that's one thing that I can assure you

but if you keep trading this for like

two times a week you will that make fast

food are you planning to come to

Macedonia how well Macedonia where is

that we are not planning to go to us

because we first want to visit the USA

so we can like visit Miami and also kept

pulling away s we also UK yes so maybe

maybe if you organize a workshop and in

Macedonia then we can book book us guys

book a souvenir shop and we will come to

your country how do we always keep

ourselves motivated and that's I think

that's because we are looking to the

larger picture of this and because we

have set some goals for ourselves sports

wise and also business-wise the the most

important thing here is how we get

ourselves motivated is by attracting our

own progress so actually by making these

kind of videos and to see ourselves

progress every single week and making

small steps that's the main thing and

next to that it's all also you guys that

motivates us to go to keep on going

because if we read all the comments and

the positive comments and the way how we

are we like motivate you guys to train

that motivates us as well the last

question of the day and also a very very

good question and that is a thing that

we have struggled as well I'm having a

fear when I try to push myself into a

handstand push

what should I do or this question has

asked us a lot also we should be seen as

a lot at group training at our own group

train a success so what you have to do

if you have a fear of falling over from

the answer that is you actually have to

learn how to fall so if you're if you

cannot do a handstand make sure to do a

partner hand step so make sure that

someone else is holding your feet and

you try to fall over like on purpose so

technique pick a side and just fall over

and again and again until you can do it

without any help our time yes so

actually the tip is tried to fall on

purpose and if you're comfortable with

falling you your fear if you fear just

build your fear will become yes and to

give you more information and insights

about this we have made a handstand

tutorial in which we which you can see

actually the video on how to do this and

you can check that right here somewhere

in the screen or in the link below

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you might have seen us wearing two

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the old-school way up like the first one

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out guys see that

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