Achieving Fitness Mastery
From the video above, you’ll notice that I have trained my body to become highly fit, powerful and athletic. To achieve this level of fitness, I don’t train everyday. Instead, I perform just 3 hard hitting workouts each week. This is the art of minimalism and once you embrace it and hone your training down to the essential, you will be blown away at how fast your improve.
Most of this ‘functionality’ and ‘athleticism’ comes down to building a high level of relative strength, which is your strength to bodyweight ratio. To maximize relative strength it’s essential that you keep body fat to a minimum.
I utilize nutrition and fasting to promote a lean physique while focusing on proper training to maximize strength gains and support muscle mass. This double combo is ridiculously effective at increasing relative strength and building a great looking body.
With great relative strength comes unbelievable athleticism. This is because relative strength is the foundation of everything. Power, speed, endurance…. You name it! If you have a strong strength to weight ratio you can jump high, sprint fast, lift heavy and endure sustained effort.
Relative Strength the Foundation of Functionality
It might sound crazy that improving your relative strength can also boost power and endurance but stay with me, okay?! We’ll use a concrete example to let this sink in. Let’s say I build you up to 100 lbs weighted chin ups for 5 reps at a lean bodyweight of around 180 lbs.
That’s a very high level of relative strength. How easy do you think bodyweight chin ups are going to be now? 20 reps will turn into a walk in the park. So just by building a solid strength to weight ratio, you can’t help but develop solid endurance.
Moreover, your pulling power is going to be nothing short of scary. With all that chinning strength, muscle ups will become elementary. When you take off the 100 lbs of plates, you’ll be able to launch yourself over the pull up bar as if gravity is some abstraction.
By focusing predominately on relative strength you develop well rounded fitness capabilities. The reason people stall in their athletic development is because they focus on way too much. They want to improve max strength, strength endurance and explosive strength so they try to fit in the time to train each skill independently.
Little do they realize, the fastest route to improving at all three is to focus on getting stronger while staying lean, that is it. This approach will provide the biggest bang for your buck. With every improvement in relative strength, comes an increase in power, endurance and of course, aesthetics.
The Lost Art of Bodyweight Training
If you’ve been watching my fitness videos for some time, you’ll notice that I perform a variety of very challenging bodyweight movements ranging from front levers, pistol squat jumps, one arm push ups, full range handstand push ups and stand to stand bridges.
Bodyweight movements are an incredible way to develop a highly fit, athletic and balanced physique. They challenge you in ways that pure weight training exercises do not. They also give you the ability to get a workout in wherever you are. This is an important component of maintaining a great physique for life.
Not to mention, bodyweight movements are a direct test of your relative strength capabilities. This is due to the fact that you’re working with your own bodyweight, not an external weight.
If you ever looked at the bodies of gymnasts and wondered why they look so damn good! Well it’s because gymnasts have some of the best strength to weight ratio’s of any athlete. And it’s no wonder why they make such well rounded athletes.
Bodyweight training is an exceptional tool! That said, most people do not know how to utilize bodyweight training for the purposes of building a great physique and incredible strength. Most ‘fitness experts’ focus on way too many different bodyweight exercises and perform way too many reps and sets.
Bodyweight Training Kinobody Style
The best way to go about bodyweight training is to focus on getting stronger at a handful of super effective movements. The goal is to work up to the most advanced movements in a realistic and sensible fashion.
I haven’t developed a bodyweight training course because it’s impossible to teach people how to progress with bodyweight exercises in a written manual. Thankfully, I decided to do a video course on bodyweight training.
This allows me the ability to showcase exactly how to perform the various exercise progressions to lead you up to the most advanced bodyweight movements. These progressions maintain the integrity of my training philosophy, which is to train for strength and get ridiculously strong on key movements that support a well developed physique.
The Kino ‘Bodyweight Training Course’
Everyone who is a member of my private KinobodyElite community will be getting access to the first ever ‘Kino Bodyweight Training Course’ July 1st. If you want to learn my bodyweight training ways, then make sure to sign up here for access - KinobodyElite.
By becoming a member to KinobodyElite you will get access to all the past workout installment, too… Workouts focused on achieving upper body perfection, developing chiseled abs and creating super powerful and explosive legs.
