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date: 2025-03-10T22:35:46-06:00
description: "Did I discover the middle ground of calisthenics and weight lifting?"
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title: "TIL: I Like Hybrid Weighted Body Weight Exercises"
tags: [ "fitness", "life", "til" ]
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# Context

I have a goal for this year (2025) to gain 15 pounds of muscle. I've been quite a lean person all of my life, and about 6 years ago
got into weight lifting and put on some actual muscle. I've flip-flopped through different fitness 'ideologies' (calisthenics,
2 rep heavy weights, etc) and I feel like now I've landed on some weird middle ground I'm calling weighted calisthenics.

# Reflection

I think the most important thing about resistance training is providing your body the opportunity to adapt to a wide
range of resistances. So, I'm rotating on a monthly basis between three kinds of over-arching frameworks: the 
[3 by 5](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcxIJcltUg0), high-rep burnouts, and a traditional 8-12 rep 3 set exercises.

But, between and among all of these exercises, I've learned that I just really like body-weight exercises with a little bit
of extra weight. I don't know what it is, but doing a bunch of lunges holding a sand bag on your shoulders just makes me feel
like a bad ass, and it feels like a really great. I'm interested to try more weighted dips, pull-ups, push-ups, etc.
