Calisthenics
ongoing calisthenics and gymnastics projects, sometimes at an early stage. Also, some thoughts about moving.
In this page, I will track my progress in the following calisthenics and gymnastics categories: handstand, pull, push, gymnastics, and mobility.
According to wikipedia, the Oxford English Dictionary describes callisthenics as gymnastic exercises to achieve fitness and grace of movement. The word calisthenics comes from the ancient Greek words kállos (κάλλος), which means “beauty” and sthenos (σθένος), meaning “strength”.
At my own level, I would like to make mine this statement of the gymnastics legend, Kohei Uchimura (内村 航平), beauty of movement is my goal (see this interview’s moment). In retrospective, it is funny to me that even in my mathematical journey, I feel a true sense of beauty in the modelisation of evolving systems and the study of dynamical systems. There are a lot of mesmerizing patterns in nature but I seek and feel beauty in understanding and modelizing (even simulating) the processes that generate them.
Because of these, I hope that sharing my calisthenics journey will benefit others and will show that, in so many different ways, moving around is a lot of fun!
handstand
pull
push
gymnastics
mobility
Current goals
Below are some movements, figures and exercices that, at my current level, are reasonable progressions to work toward during the next 6 months.
Handstand
- Hold handstand on floor for 1 minute
- Straight arm straddle press handstand
- 45 degree V-sit for 5 seconds
pull
- Straddle back lever for 10 seconds
- Straddle front lever for 5 seconds
push
- Tuck planche for 10 seconds
- Weighted dips with my girlfriend attached to me
gymnastics
- Front tucked somersault
- Back tucked somersault
- Aerial cartwheel (both sides)
- Press to handstand on parallel bars
- 180 pirouette on parallel bars
mobility
- Full front split
- Full lateral splits (both sides)