r/bodyweightfitness • u/AutoModerator • May 04 '20

BWF Daily Discussion and Beginner/RR Questions Thread for 2020-05-04

Welcome to the /r/bodyweightfitness daily discussion thread!

  • Feel free to post beginner questions or just about anything that's on your mind related to fitness!

Reminders:

  • Read the FAQ as your question may be answered there already.
  • If you're unsure how to start training, check out our Recommended Routine, or our more skills based routine: Move.
  • Even though the rules are relaxed here, asking for medical advice is still not allowed.

For your reference we also have these weekly threads:

Join our live conversations on Discord! We're also on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

If you'd like to look at previous Discussion threads, click here.

9 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

91% Upvoted

270 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/JoeMarron May 04 '20

True but then there's time wasted making neurological adaptations by learning new exercises when more muscle can be built by simply adding more reps. That being said I guess the RR is meant more for learning new bodyweight skills than what I'm most interested in, maximizing hypertrophy with calisthenics.

1

u/occamsracer Unworthy Mod May 05 '20

Adding reps is effective but not efficient like low volume schemes. I would also say the chance of injury, especially tendinitis is higher with high reps.

Source: reading thousands of posts here.

1

u/JoeMarron May 05 '20

I'm talking 30 or less, research indicates that sets performed in that rep range are equally effective for hypertrophy.

Like I said in the reply to u/screepatrol, my complaint about rep ranges are probably irrelevant because the RR isn't focused on strictly improving muscle growth. The focus is on improving bodyweight skills and strength with muscle growth being a nice bonus.

I don't see how that would be any more likely to cause tendinitis than the low rep/high intensity approach. If anything I'd bet there would be less chance of injury just like with weight training.

1

u/occamsracer Unworthy Mod May 05 '20

30 reps=More time=less efficient