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Bodyweight Fitness Recommended RoutineThe default starting point for a reason: it is free, complete and hard to misread. Three full-body sessions a week, a short dynamic warm-up, then strength work in pairs and triplets that keeps a session to about an hour.
The progression rule is the part worth copying. Pick the hardest version of…0 - 2
Hybrid Calisthenics RoutineA gentler free entry for anyone who finds the Recommended Routine intimidating or whose joints need a slower ramp. You choose six exercises that cover the whole body, from push-ups, pull-ups, squats, leg raises, bridges and twists, and work each one through its own ladder of progressions, moving up…0 - 3
Begin Bodyweight (FitnessFAQs)For bar trainees who would rather pay once and have every session written out. Daniel Vadnal's beginner program runs three workouts a week of about an hour, builds pull-ups, dips, push-ups and handstands through levels that start at complete beginner, and ships with spreadsheet and PDF logs so…0 - 4
Body By Rings (FitnessFAQs)The pick if you own a pair of rings and want size as well as strength. It needs nothing but the rings, runs four days a week at around an hour a session, and includes spreadsheet and PDF logs.
The entry bar is the useful detail: FitnessFAQs says you are ready once you can do 10 pull-ups, 10 dips…0 - 5
Ring Workout Routine (Antranik)Antranik Kizirian, known to many r/bodyweightfitness readers for his video walkthrough of the free Reddit routine, sells a paid ring program that is a natural next step for anyone who has outgrown it and wants gymnastics-style training on still rings. Expect three sessions a week of 60 to 90…0 - 6
Convict conditioning (2010)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2010The clearest progression ladder in print. Paul Wade's book reduces training to six movements (squat, push-up, pull-up, leg raise, bridge and handstand push-up), each split into ten steps from a version almost anyone can do, and you climb a step only when you meet its standard.
That patience is its…0 - 7
Overcoming Gravity (2011)★ 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2011Second edition (2016)
Not a program to copy but the book that teaches you to write your own, which is what you need once ready-made routines stop fitting. Steven Low's progression charts place bar, ring and floor exercises on a level system, and a dedicated methods chapter explains how to move…0
