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But you also want to know how you can do this as e ciently as possible.
The problem is that you are new to this and there are tons of routines, but which should you do?
The good news? This question has been asked over 10.000 times.
While it di ers per individual, I believe that with this 6 month calisthenics workout plan you’ll be pretty
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If you are reading this, it’s because you -just like many other people- have asked yourself 1 simple
question:
I have decided to set up a simple 6 month plan for calisthenics workouts which an absolute beginner can
use to start training.
And to take the rst step towards passing the o cial Bar Brother exam.
Every month has its own challenge and things aren’t going to become easier.
In order to prevent injuries or become demotivated on this plan, there are certain requirements which
you will need to meet rst.
It will help smoothen your transition from one month to the other.
5 push ups
5 pull ups/chin ups
5 knee raises
5 dips
5 squats
Bonus Routine: Lacking the strength for these exercises? Need to start from scratch?
If you don’t have the basics down yet, you might need to work on those skills rst.
You can nd a complete starter guide with a 15 minute full body routine for absolute beginners to
start working on the foundational exercises.
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to-workout-in-60-minutes-push-up-progression/)
Find a chin up progression routine here (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/calisthenics-chin-up/)
Find a dip progression routine here. (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/ring-dip-bar-workout-
progression/)
Find a leg raise progresion routine here. (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/hanging-leg-raise-
exercise/)
If you meet these requirements, prepare for six months of body weight training.
Once again, I emphasise that this plan should be considered a blueprint to a new body and is not a
be-all end-all thing.
Whatever you put into your ‘calisthenics workout’ plan is up to you as long as you use the right foundation.
Or you might nd yourself using one that does more harm than good.
Generally you would bene t more from overdoing the basics than you would from progressing too fast.
Be conservative and humble. Slow and steady beats fast and impatient.
Wanting to be too cool and skipping the basics will lead to injuries.
Practical Training Tip: Progress does not work the way you think it does.
You will have periods on this plan where if feels like you are making gains every single day and then
you will have periods where it feels like nothing is happening.
That’s because in reality progress has a very di erent path than you probably think it does.
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Knowing this as a beginner, will allow you to deal with periods of little improvement.
And it will keep you motivated, because you know that when you hit a plateau you are heading for a
leap.
As you move forward on this plan this will be a very familiar pattern.
Keep it in mind.
I don’t want to sound like the guy who keeps you on a leash.
But I’d like to take my responsibility and make sure that you get most out of this plan.
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In a weekly plan, your workouts would look like the following diagram.
With in between each day of exercise a rest day for you to recover.
Keep in mind that this is the bare minimum amount of training you will need to get consistent results.
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Optionally you can add more days for leg routines, but training at least 3 days is a minimum.
In the rst month the focus is on getting your body used to calisthenics training.
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Back
Chest
Legs
Abs
Arms
If you don’t have a pull up bar, use the no equipment routine (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/wp-
content/uploads/2014/08/no-equipment-8-beginner-routine.jpg) instead of the full body routine.
If you have serious muscle soreness nd out which 5 things you can do to keep training.
(http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/5-things-you-can-do-when-sore-bar-brother-training/)
This is your rst month of training so don’t expect any major results, remember how many years it took
your body to become the way it is right now?
Just keep in mind that the rst month is about adaptation of the entire body.
Minimize your time between exercises as much as possible, take your rest between your cycles (1-3
minutes).
This month you lay your foundation for the other 5 months.
Keep in mind that training yourself into an imbalance here will lead to issues later.
While you might not notice it and feel like you are doing the same thing over and over, things will be
changing in the rst month…fast.
Or as mister Myagi from the Karate kid would say: “Wax on, wax o ”.
Training Tip: Don’t Forget Legs And Feel Free To Add Variety
If doing this routine 3 times a week (or more) gets a little too boring and you want to do something
else, just pick one of the 14 bar brother beginner routines or plans
(http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/bar-brothers-beginner-routines/)to add to the fun and
intensity.
Just keep in mind that you want to hit all the 5 major muscle groups in a balanced way as much
as possible.
If you feel like this is too easy you can add more days or continue in the next month.
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Training both legs and upper body has shown to lead to increased levels of testosterone (which is
good for overall muscle growth), compared to only training your upper body (study
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11782267))
The leg exercises will de nitely be su cient for someone who only has time to workout 3 times a
week and needs a full body workout.
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By now you should have developed some additional push and pull up strength.
In this second month the focus is on pushing your strength even more and building both your upper body
and triceps, which you will need for a good muscle up.
But there is a huge di erence between 10 bad pull ups and 10 good pull ups.
Drop the ego and the need to feel cool and stick to quality instead.
You will be way stronger and injury free down the road.
And if you really feel like you need to do a lot of bad quality executions.
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This month is going to require a lot of e ort since you are really going to a signi cantly higher level of
calisthenics workout intensity.
Your upper body needs to start developing the strength to start a muscle up routine, which will be of a
signi cantly higher level than you are used to.
The reason why the Full Body Routine is placed rst is because I’d rather have you do the basics perfectly
and be exhausted for the Let’s Go than to have it the other way around.
As you progress through the month and increase your strength you might want to alternate both or start
with the Let’s Go routine rst.
That’s up to you.
During this month in the last week before you transition to month 4, I want you to take 1 week where
you basically do only 50% of what you normally do.
And it’s a tool you can use to allow your body to ‘supercompensate’ for all the adaptive pressure you
have been putting on it.
As a result you’ll become even stronger by doing less for a short amount of time.
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Look at it as refueling and repairing yourself completely.
Make sure you can do these routines with the right technique and quality or the next month is going
to be discouraging.
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Workout schedule
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Just make it a priority to do this routine with high quality, no shitty repetitions.
If you are having some serious di culties with your typewriter pull ups, replace your Let’s Go Routine with
one of these shoulder routines. (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/calisthenics-shoulder-workout/)
You really need to be obsessed at this point, because this is going to be your most di cult month yet.
You might not want to hear this, but a big part of progressing is realising that you actually suck.
Once you accept and embrace that you are a beginner again, you’ll be ready to go to the next level.
If you want to keep progressing inde nitely, never stop with ‘being a beginner’.
Training Tip: Use Exercise Progression And Aim For 5 Repetitions In A Cycle
If you are unable to do 1 rep of the given exercise, regress to an easier progression.
Instead of typewriters do wide grip pull ups for example, minimum of 5 reps in the given amount of
cycles.
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Always aim for those 5 reps of 3-4 sets.
The same rule applies for clapping pull ups. Replace clapping pull ups with normal pull ups until
you’ve developed enough strength for the explosive force.
It will be a bit of trial-and-error. You’ll discover where you need to take it down a notch and where you
can add a more.
Doing these exercises with high quality standards will make transitioning to more advanced moves much
easier.
If you have di culties doing these, chances are that you have been doing some of the previous
months with less quality that you should have.
If you can do all of the above muscle up hunt moves for at least 5 reps of 3 cycles, you will have
enough strength for the next month.
This is de nitely a month which can take you longer to complete depending on your development and
baseline strength.
Patience is key.
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This month the training is going to change a little, because right now you should have the fundamental
strength to do all the basic full body exercises.
In addition to that, you have developed upper body strength to progress into a muscle up by doing the
muscle up routine.
So what you can do now is focus on the muscle up technique and strength by doing:
Do this 3-4 sets and then progress into the muscle up routine (At least 5 reps for 3 cycles).
If you don’t have the strength to do an additional upper body routine, progress into the full body routine
or add a leg routine.
You can add some variety here, just make sure you spend plenty of time on the ‘technical part of the
muscle up’ which is the transition.
One of the major reasons why people never get their rst muscle up, despite having the strength to
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strength.
Your body needs to recognise the ‘transitional moment’ without you having to consciously think about
it.
Those repetitions will accumulate over time and before you know it, you don’t even need to think
about it any more.
It just happens.
Once that’s the case, you are ready to face the Bar Brother requirements for beginners.
Month 6: The Bar Brother Beginner Challenge To Set The Base For The
O cial Challenge
4 muscle ups
15 dips
20 pushups
10 jumping squats
10 leg raises
4 muscle ups
3 minute time limit
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Make sure you do a good warming up and go for it, six months of hard work will surely allow you to pass
this.
My suggestion is that you stick to the workout plan in month 5 during this month, while trying to do the
beginner challenge at least once a week as shown in the workout schedule.
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Get a group of friends who join you in your training and make it a goal to try the challenge at least once.
Because in the end it’s not about what you can do, but about who you become because of it.
On this workout plan you might reach a point where you feel like resting is for weak people.
Well, the proper amounts of rest are the only way you’ll get strong.
You need to realise that the harder you work, the harder you need to rest.
Muscle construction DOES NOT happen when you train, it happens when you rest.
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How? Sleep is the most potent anabolic activity known to man. Yes, you build more muscle while
sleeping than with anything else.
But only if you force the muscle to adapt while you are awake.
What do you need to do to optimise this? It’s simple, but not easy.
Make sure your nutrition is in check and focus on speci c exercises and nutrients that promote
recovery (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/elbow-pain/).
And don’t make excuses when it comes to resting, but only after you’ve earned it.
It was a leap of faith. You might still be a beginner, but not the beginner you were before you started.
So what’s next?
And keep in mind that training is one part of becoming stronger and that the other part is a healthy
calisthenics diet. (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/calisthenics-meal-plan/)
The healthier you eat while on this 6 month training schedule, the stronger you will be at the end of it.
Even small changes in your daily habits and diet can have enormous e ects.
And the sooner you get started, the sooner those goals of yours will start becoming real.
Just like the dream of the person you want to be.
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1,412 thoughts on “The Essential 6 Month Calisthenics Workout Plan For Bar Brother
Beginners”
MICHAEL
August 21, 2017 at 2:24 am (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/calisthenics-workout-plan/comment-page-60/#comment-33745)
Hey Rich,
I’ve been doing the Bar Brothers 12 Week Program for a while now, but I feel like my nutrition is holding me back. I go online and try and get
help, going from Reddit page to Reddit page trying to nd the help I need. I found some of you’re eBooks and I read them all but I still just
need a question answered that I haven’t been able to get answered anywhere yet. So I am 14 years old and I weigh in at about 120, with my
height being 5 6′, so the question I have is what do I do? Do I eat a surplus to gain muscle or do I eat a de cit to shred the fat o my stomach
to get my abs to show then do a surplus? I read on here I should eat a de cit to get my abs to show then from there I go ahead and do a
surplus of calories… But I’m just soooo stuck and everyone is telling me di erent things like, “You should do weight lifting, calisthenics won’t
work out” and “Eat 3,000 calories a day” to “Eat 2,500 calories a day.” I’m just sooo confused on what to do, so I am wondering if you could
please help me out so I can succeed, so I can get my dream body, and so I can get the con dence I have always lacked.
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Hey Michael,
Thanks for your message!
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This is something called: “Paralysis by analysis”. You are consuming too much information and looking for the magic solution, guess what?
It becomes confusing and there isn’t a perfect solution. Not a single body on this planet is the same as yours, so there are 1001 tips and
tricks that work. Instead nd 1 plan and stick to that plan for 4-8 weeks.
You can nd my free diet guide, it contains all the principles which you need to know. Or if you feel something else sounds better, stick to
that, but don’t jump from source to source and plan to plan without actually doing stu . Stop reading more, start DOING more.
Keep in mind that getting your dream body isn’t going to give you con dence, the road to getting it is what will.
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MICHAEL
August 21, 2017 at 12:47 pm (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/calisthenics-workout-plan/comment-page-60/#comment-33755)
Thanks Rich,
I am just confused though, so do I cut to get my abs showing then bulk? Or should I just keep bulking and eating clean?
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MICHAEL
August 21, 2017 at 12:48 pm (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/calisthenics-workout-plan/comment-page-60/#comment-33756)
Thanks Rich,
I am just confused though, so do I cut to get my abs showing then bulk? Or should I just keep bulking and eating clean?
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BISWADEEP SEN
August 21, 2017 at 9:01 am (http://www.barbrothersgroningen.com/calisthenics-workout-plan/comment-page-60/#comment-33752)
Hey!
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Hey Biswadeep,
Great question.
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