Calisthenics or Weight lifting

>not doing both

I did hardcore Gym workouts for a little over 3 months last year with great growth but didnt feel like i had a whole lot of overall strength or athleticism.
I broke an elbow son after and had to stop and never picked back up after i healed. I no longer have a gym full of equipment at my access.

What you say about Calisthenics being more fun (seems more "athleitic") is something i would look` forward to vs the mundane "lift this much weight every day" on the gym pace.

It is more fun, but you need patience when building up a foundation for all the crazy stuff.

Having done both to advanced levels, I'd only do calisthenics again if I had nothing else to sustain my body with, and then it'd be mostly unilateral stuff.

Calisthenics are a subset of weighlifting, weightlifting includes everything while calisthenics includes bodyweight exercises with things that can be found on the streets. It's obvious then that weightlifting is better because you have every tool calisthenics have and many others.

Sprinting and squat jumps can get you good legs
>how big
Look at bo jackson

both are great. so, i do both. pull ups, push ups, planks, jump rope(?),..., squats, deadlift, benchpress, OHP,...mix them up. have fun with it. as long as you're not fucking up your gains in the long run, who tf cares?

i once knew a guy that, no matter what workout he did, he always finished with an until-failiure plank. why? because planks, when performed correctly, are amazing for core development.also to get down low and look at thot asses.

Old fag 40 here. Mix it up do both. I still like squat and deadlift. Body weight exercises are great for old faggots too.

Just do both..

As a gymnastics rings specialist, I can say that calisthenics is only really useful if you go to very high levels, like full planches, iron crosses, one arm pull ups, etc, otherwise, it will not build amazing strength, but maybe will build an okay physique. At high levels it will build some really impressive strength in regular resistance exercises. Also, you will need to train legs, and this is a bit of a problem in calisthenics. There are many good leg exercises, but many require additional flexibility to successfully do them with good results. As for plyometrics, the best one is to just do tricking, it will train every single muscle in your lower body, but it is a sport of its own. As for weightlifting, I am not very experienced with it, I only do some just as additional strength work, so I cannot say much about it.

Oh and I completely forgot, cycling, specifically fixed gear sprints to top speed, is a great way to hit legs + hiit

And also, if you want to see results of ultra high level calisthenics, I would recommend looking at the top rings gymnasts, like Yuri Van Gelder, Eleftherios Petrounias, Danny Rodrigues, Arthur Zanetti, Chen Yibing, Yan Mingyong

>just do tricking
What is tricking? Also, any advice on developing flexibility? Some sort of routine would be a godsend.

I double this line of questioning

Bumping for this

youtube.com/watch?v=7w1GEPrEzsU
its like parkour without the obstacles.

This. I'm not looking to be big or anything, just strong for my size. And the amount of cool shit you can do on bars/rings is a big plus too

Both.

End of discussion

im looking to get the bars for calisthenics. any recommendations on the brand?

You sound like a beginner. because you absolutely do want a baseline strength and “get big” training to start. it’ll help your transition to calisthenics

If you don't do both you are a retard

I like to go to the park every weekend to do muscle ups and try all sorts of bodyweight exercises. The carryover to weightlifting is amazing

B O T H

unlike you I wouldn't turn down a threesome with two beautiful women.

You must be a twink then. No one who lifts heavy has ever hit a plateau and thought, this is nothing muscle-ups won't fix.
Calisthenics is for yos-syob, poor people who can't afford a $10/mo gym membership, and twinks.
Gymnastics aside, it is literally the short bus of attaining strength. Yeah you could do a thousand pullups a day and add a sliver of mass, but for the same time investment you could make actual noticeable gains in a gym.
>personal anecdote: challenge any pure calisthenics fag to do any of his normal routine with a 45lb plate strapped on and watch the dawning understanding of his actual place in the food chain ripple across his face.

t. Retard who doesn't do weighted pull ups and dips

How's that sub 2 plate bench coming for you dude?