Why Calisthenics?

Strength. Pure strength.
You cannot be ‘just strong’. The idiotic question, “Who is stronger,
powerlifters or strongmen?” can be compared to “Who will win in a fight, a
shark or a lion?” On land or in the water?
Strength can mean a lot of different things. It cannot be taken out of context.
Strength is the ability to
generate force under given conditions.
Here is a highly simplified, in the trenches, classification of strength :
Maximal strength,
explosive strength, and
strength endurance.
Russian Kyokushinkai full-contact karate fighter and instructor
Oleg Ignatov gives the following examples of bodyweight drills that
develop these three types of strength :
• Pushups: the one-arm pushup (max strength), the clapping pushup
(explosive strength), and the repetition pushup (strength
endurance )
• Squats: the one-legged squat (max strength), low-rep vertical and
broad jumps (explosive strength), vertical and broad jumps for up to
50 reps (strength endurance), repetition squats (strength
endurance )
The focus of Calisthenics is a relative and maximal strength, period.
Why?
• Because pure strength gets very little attention in popular books—
Obsessed as they are with the high-rep pump.
• Because enough has already been said about strength endurance.
• Because, for a long time, your explosive strength will automatically
increase along with your max strength.
• Because what you look like has no bearing on what you can do.
• Strength is built by tensing the muscles harder, not by exhausting them with reps.
• High tension requires high resistance and mental focus on contracting the muscles harder.
• High resistance can be achieved without heavyweights by deliberately imposing poor leverage and unfavorable weight distribution between the limbs.
• The best strength gains are made by focusing on a limited number of high resistance, low-rep, full-body exercises. The Calisthenics program can put these two exercises: the one-legged squat and the one-arm pushup. They are the bodyweight equivalents of the powerlifters.
• Strength is a skill. Training must be approached as a practice, not a
workout. You will practice every day, throughout the day; you will focus on max tension, ROM, and you will totally avoid muscle fatigue and failure.
• The skill of tension-generation is the most important variable in getting stronger—it is much more important than the building of muscle mass.
• The martial arts high-tension techniques will make you stronger by
enabling you to tense your muscles harder.
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Power to you!
“I went from 5 to 10 pull-ups in one week,”  The gains are not unusual.
Another distinctive feature of the Calisthenics program is the high tension techniques. Simply tensing the target muscles hard is great, but you can Contract them even harder—much harder—by applying ancient martial arts tension secrets. The Calisthenics has systematized them into a  powerful instant-strength mix.
Just maybe a technique to consider .Don`t forget, this type of exercises had been following us since the beginning of mankind.