Hey, my name is Serge and today I’m gonna show you what type of training is the best, so let’s get started.

First of all, you need to know that there is no winner in the fight between Calisthenics and Weight training because there is a difference in goals that you set while performing one of those. Doing weightlifting you have a big potential to build mass quickly and doing calisthenics you have the possibility to learn new and hard movements, however, let’s look closely at the cons and pros of them.

Weightlifting.

Pros.

1.No limits on getting big.

As I mentioned probably the biggest advantage of free weight training is the possibility to build ultimate physique. There are no limits on adding mass, with weightlifting you are able to keep packing on more and more weight and force your body to grow.

2.Isolation exercises.

Another reason to train with weights are isolation exercises, that means that you have a lot of control over the way your body looks. You can also train the weak parts better and it is also easier to recover from an injury.

3.Technique easy to learn.

The benefit is that the technique is easy to learn. You can learn the technique in just one training so you don’t need to spend a lot of time trying out to get done with movement. It also gives you the opportunity to build mass faster.

4.Easy to measure the progress.

If you want to see the progress that you just need to look at the weight you are lifting now and on the weight, you were working in the past.

Cons.

1.Costs money.

You need to buy a ton of equipment or pay for a gym membership. That makes it expensive even if the gym memberships doesn’t cost that much now with time it is getting harder to pay.

2.Low creativity.

well, you curl and curl… for 10 years and nothing changes except the weight and you get bored with the time.

3.Big risk of injurys.

If you are working wiht big weights and with bad technique there is a big risk of getting injured. The heavy weight puts more pressure on muscles, joins,tendons and ligaments.

Let’s move on to pros and cons of calisthenics.

Calisthenics

Pros.

1.You can train nearly anywhere.

This is a very big advantage of calisthenics because there is no need of extra equipment and there is no reason to skip a workout. It is very useful when you are traveling or if you like to train in different places.

2.Low costs.

A product of the first advantage are low or even no costs.

You don’t need a lot of equipment and as I sad you can train anywhere, so it means that you can find a place, for example, a park with pull up and dip bars and don’t pay anything for a workout.

3.A big variety of moves and exercises.

This is actually why I started working out, there are so many different skills that you can learn and looking up to people in the calisthenics scene like Brendan Meyers or Chris Heria is very motivational.

You have a lot of moves to learn: handstand, levers, planche, flags etc. You also have a big of variety of goals, for example, build the physique, get stronger or just learn new moves.

The moment when you achieve the goal to be able to perform a new move isn’t comparable with anything. And when you are able to do all those advanced moves there is still place to grow.

4.Get stronger.

The most or even nearly all of the bodyweight exercises use more than one muscle group, for example, pull up. Pull up is a basic calisthenics exercise that involves: lats, biceps, forearms, traps, upper back etc. So literary your whole upper body is involved in only on move.

5.Coordination and mobility.

Because there are so many muscles involved in movements, so they need to work together and to tone in the right moment, so it comes to coordination. Coordination is used in every single calisthenics move, without it would be impossible to perform even one rep of push-ups, jumps etc.

There are a lot of advanced moves that are impossible to do without flexibility or mobility so calisthenics brings you to stretch to be able to grow, that makes it, even more, benefitly.

And because every exercise includes coordination, your core is involved too.

6.Lose fat quickly.

If your goal to lose fat than calisthenics should be your decision because bodyweight training could be easily transformed in a high-intensity training, for safety look up to HIIT or MRT training systems. And you can lose fat and also build strength at the same time doing calisthenics.

Cons.

1.Hard to isolate specific muscles.

In all body weight exercises or moves are working nearly all muscles of your body. So it’s harder to get stronger in specific weak parts of your body or to come back from an injury.

In this case, weightlifting is the better decision.

2.The compound movements.

If you want to build muscles quickly then calisthenics shouldn’t be your choice because it is very hard to learn the technique and it could take a while until you are able to perform the move. For example, the muscle up this is a very good exercise, but it can take even more than one month to be able to do it.

3. Limits at building mass.

Train only with body weight training puts a few limitation 0n getting big. It is nearly impossible to get a very muscular body with calisthenics and compete with body building. But if your goal isn’t bodybuilding then you don’t need to worry.

4.Harder to train legs.

It is harder to get very big legs using only your bodyweight, but it isn’t impossible. You can train strong legs and as I sad it’s just not comparable with bodybuilding.

You need to train according to your goals, before starting you should question yourself why I want to workout and what i want from it.

And also don’t forget that it is also possible to combine both for even better results.