Kirk! This is such a great comment! I wish everyone could see this. Thank you!

God bless you bud

Sitting on the couch and waiting to die sounds kind of nice right now if only I wouldn't have to get up and go pee later on LOL

I m with you. I m in my fifties and I e only ever known obscene fitness. Im not forfeiting any of my gains. !

Well done

ABir! This is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this story with me! Your Grampa sounds like he was a fit guy who did it right! Very inspiring, my friend. Thank you for this.

@@Kboges Thank for reading brother. I always love sharing stories of my granda in fitness circles so that by which i can tell people about these exercises which are now forgotten but used to be a staple traditionally. These Indian traditional excercise like Dand, Baithak, Gada swing, etc... And many others from different cultures as well can give anyone elite levels of Strength, Stamina, Cardio vascular fitness and flexibility which people thought cannot be possessed together.

Wow dude I am from India too(but south india) Your grandpa is a legend

This is amazing and encouraging. Was your grandpa the man whose story was told in the book Being Mortal by any chance?

@@strummersheroes7972 no sorry... He's not the one from the book. Although I haven't read the book but the reason you're finding many similarities between could be because he or the character from the book wasn't the only once who had characteristics like that. Most of the wrestlers from that generation did the same excercises and went through almost same routines. Most of my grandpas friends lived well oast 80. I don't think he ever got interviewed not to my knowledge. He never passed on his knowledge and wisdom publically... He gave it to his family. One thing which was most prominent was that he had a routine for the whole family... Men, women, children or even any guests, no excuses, no days off, 365 days a year, no matter how sick you are ... Whoever was in the house they had to wake up 5 in the morning (you can go back to sleep after if you want) and do atleast 10 surya namaskar, 10 baithak, 10 dand and 5-5 minutes of 2 breathing asaans which are anulom vilom and kapalbhati. I remember doing this routine for as long as i can remember, same with my father, my grandma said when she married to him, he made her do this from the first day onwards into there married life... Same with my mom and same with my wife. He always said no matter what profession you are in, wether you are a housewife, a kid going to school or a professional working in corporate office, these 30 minutes will take you long way in your life. We still follow this routine and i am teaching my kids too.

Was there a lot of pain when you first started doing them? If so, did you keep on going?

​@NEVERGIV3UP. I second this, I've been getting pain on and off and it seems like he's leaning quite far forward in this video which I did and was off balance and seemed to cause the most pain. We're all built differently and I've suffered knee pain in the past so could be anything.

You would want to regress to make sure it's pain free​@@Pebblewhiteface

Thank you, Adam! That's very kind!🙏

Thank you, Carl! That's super kind of you.

@@Kboges super humble of you sir

I love the phrase reinventing simplicity!

+ 1 Back to basics.

❤️❤️👍👍👍

You're doing great Julie!

mmmm

You are doing awesome Julie, cheers

Well done Julie

The heel position is stressed but there is no visual of the heel relative to the ground.

Wow! That means a lot! Thank you so much for sharing!

Glad you tried and enjoyed! They are an awesome quad exercise!

Dude do yoga like two times a week for your back. It will help A LOT.

Thank you! That's super kind🙏

They make an interesting pair -- Kyle is all about totally mastering the fundamental movements, and Adam is about trying literally EVERY imaginable human movement at least once. 😁

I agree.

Well said 👍

Def agree

Yeah I started at 20 too and felt really exhausted few years ago. Now can go to 200 and even higher but it's just boring. and I am near 60 y.o.

@@y.g.1313 That's crazy. 200 in one set would fold me, I'd shit myself inside out if I tried that.

Any improvement? Lol

That's awesome! Well done. I hope you continue to enjoy!

150 at a time or 3 sets of 50

​@@dr4bones10or 150 sets of 1

​@@dr4bones1030 sets of 5

Good to hear, Moss! Keep at it!

Lunges work

I think John Cleese recommends those

@@gregr.3886 Ha ha, yeah I remember the The Embassy of Funny Walks, Monty Python. I bet the neighbours thought wtf was I doing lol.

@@Kboges I'm only 15 and I have knee pain when I do squats, how do I fix that?

Night Shade, this is exceptionally kind! I truly appreciate it. Not everyone "gets it", so Its really cool when someone does. Much appreciated. Keep at it and it will come. It's inevitable.

I like that. “It’s inevitable”

Nice comment dude 👌

@@Kboges agree with this guy. You rock dude. Already have made my life better by doing these work outs. Peace

anybody who isn't morbidly obese can do this shit - simp harder bro

Thanks for this Ro Ro! I totally agree. I love BW stuff. Weights beat me up for sure. Feels good to have everything working well.

Take it from me, someone who got a bulging disc doing deadlifts and then ended up getting ruptured discs from trying to get it fixed...stick to calisthenics! I'd go back in time and change to that only calisthenics plus light high weight reps if i had a time machine :(

@@anthonybalista7421 there is no calisthenics work that can work your posterior chain like deadlifts. You did it with bad form don’t blame the exercise lol

​@@2010Failbrids how old are you

@@zephyrr108 ask your mother 🤔

Yeah these really concentrate the force into the quads.

I see no difference

@@proverbalizer squats have knee position limited till your toes but those go ahead of the toes with more pressure

Thanks so much for this! Yeah it is an awesome exercise! Have you worked up to super high reps?

@@Kboges yeah I am from india (specially from Haryana) so I have seen this since my childhood in open air i along with my friends used to do it until whole body starts sweating ( apart from this squat (BAITHAK in regional Indian language ) we also do SAPATE( Indian burpees) which gives full body workout. So yeah first some warm up some running 3-5 km depends on weather 😂also. Then sapate dand(Indian push ups) baithak(shown in your video) until it sweats and we start counting when muscles get HOT and pumped upto 100*5 or 250*2 types. I haven’t worked to super high reps like our great wrestlers do But yeah they do it over a period of 10-15 years since childhood and regularly condition their knees with oiling massaging and stretching with super heavy 5-6k calorie diet(minimum). So they become super strong and super stamina (long bouts of wrestling) I personally follow your channel because of unique training style you pick up from different training cultures and bring to us. Was very happy to see Indian exercise here ❤️❤️❤️keep growing

@@noobdev99 Dude this is amazing! Thank you so much for sharing this! I appreciate it, brother!🙏

Correct brother ❤❤❤

Back to basics : the solution to many things in life anno 2022. Keep it simple & eliminate the unnecessary.

the more years pass, the harder will your acl be to be healed, you need surgery man if its a complete tear

@@cautarepvp2079 its not, thankfully. :-)

Thank you for that! That is super kind of you! Much appreciated, brother. 🙏

That's good to hear. I've jacked both my knees up in grappling, but these feel pretty good for me too!

Knees over toes guy. Check him.out.

We need to see the foot placement on the floor. The knees are unnecessary extending beyond the toes edge.

@@martinkinyua957 Watch the link in the description. Getting the knees far past the toes is the point. This is not dangerous- that's a myth that won't go away.

@@martinkinyua957 that’s the whole point of the exercise lol it’s a myth what you’re saying back then walking would cause knee pain following this myth of not letting your knees over toes now that i do these dangerous movements that you say i can walk mostly if not a 100% pain free

Thank you for sharing this! I totally agree! I think they are great finishers for powerlifting.

@@Kboges in my humble opinion once you get to overload these (i.e. goblet squats or vest) while having an elevated heel, they are brutal. Thank you for sharing this with more people, who just want a general guide to training.

@@MaD_KiLLR Yeah spot on. These with a kettlebell, or weight vest are really awesome. Thank you, brother!

Wow thank you! I literally owe it all to the audience. Amazing group of people. Without the audience I’m just a guy working out in his back yard. 🙏

Thank you! I appreciate that.

@@Kboges Hi Kyle! Just wanted to ask you, how many sets/reps of bear crawls should I do a week for shoulder muscle growth. I'm skinny and I need your advice to get bigger, especially in my upper body.

HAHAH I love when this happens!

I love it! Yeah it's a classic combat sport conditioner. It will serve you well, Nvl!

how's the progression going?

@@harshitshukla2108 Thanks for asking. I did kickboxing training for about 9 consequtive months, 3 times a week, adjusted well strenght wise after 2 weeks, still my legs were fried for a week after the first session. I wasn't used to 500-1000 squats a week. But the more challenging part was to learn to pace myself and get better at cardio. I thought i was in decent shape starting out oh boy was i wrong. I would really recommend 3 sets of 60-100 squats if you want to have the necessary conditioning. Also, for energy, i had to incorporate more carbs to my diet which lead me to actually gain mass during that time. I am happy enough with my competence now to quit kickboxing to follow a cut with strength training and swimming.

@@nvlarcht Thanks man, I am currently starting again at the after a 6 month gap in training and it feels horrible tbh. My stamina is lowered to such a level that doing bodyweight lunges and squats leave me gasping for air. All my strength in lifts are gone and it feels like I never went to the gym earlier at all. Was looking for a way to increase my stamina and I happened to find this video.

@@harshitshukla2108 good luck buddy, you will most likely catch up in a month or two, hard gained strength is easy to regain. Keep it up!

There's also the matter of your hip joint. Your foot placement could be different. Most women are anteversion, while men tend to need a retroversion posture.

Noted! Thanks for the suggestion!

​@@Kbogesstill waiting

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this. Way to go! Keep at it and keep me posted. Thanks so much for this comment!

@@Kboges I only dislike leg training. At the moment, I do 750 lunches or squats with a small pause at the bottom. It takes forever. On the other hand it was necessary to unleash the pistol squat with acceptable form. I still have some way to go.

You were doing Crossfit and they weren't using bodyweight/gymnastics? You were getting cheated, dude

@@InvisibleHotdog no, I didn't say that. I quit CrossFit for other reasons

Well done! Glad it worked for you! These were key for building up endurance for me, as well as rehabbing some old injuries. I'm such a fan of this exercise.

My pleasure, erauqscme! Enjoy!

HAHAHA awesome, Dean!

Nice pun 😉

@@aweimoleayopeter6960 😁👍 Thanks man

I do about 1000 freehand bodyweight squats, every other day. Sets involve 20 to 30 incline push-ups, then 65 squats as shown in your video.This is continuous for 15 sets of that combination.So were looking at about 300 to 400 push-ups and 975 airsquats, done in 50 minutes. These none stop reps are great for weight loss and general but not extreme strength.Muscle endurance it's called. Calorie loss about 600 calories,per 50 minute session.

Any luck?

What's axial loading and isn't knee going beyond feet in forward direction considered wrong posture?

@@dheerajdabas5483 Axial loading refers to weight being loaded onto the spinal column. Often the amount of weight you can lift is limited by the fatigue your spinal erectors accumulate, which is why professional strongmen and body builders add accessory movements that reduce axial loading. Squatting, dead lifting, overhead pressing and barbell rowing at heavy weights in the 3-6 rep range cannot be sustained by athletes because your stabilisers become over used. This is why in advanced programs you will notice a lot of machine work or medium to light rep ranges in the 10 - 30 rep ranges in addition to the heavy work. This exercise reduces axial loading because the weight you can use on a barbell is much lower than your spinal erectors are capable of and so allows you to apply enough challenging work to your legs and give your back a rest when it needs it. As for the knee, the knee is an extremely strong hinge joint that is entirely comfortable with handling a full range of motion. The advice of not allowing the knees to travel over the toes is left over from an older time when people understood less about exercise. A good example to illustrate this is women and exercise. It was once thought that women needed to avoid heavy exercise during pregnancy and you will still hear this advice from medical professionals who are not deeply knowledgeable of exercise science. On the other hand, Spartan women were well known to remain physically active during pregnancy without ill effect, as well as there are plenty of modern examples of female power lifters who continued to train hard right up until their last month of pregnancy, again without ill effects. Back to knees, there is emerging evidence that even with osteoarthritis, the long term health outcomes of the affected joint increase over the long term as resistance training continues. Of course, exercise can increase the risk of osteoarthritis. Athletes who regularly applied greater than 25MPa of force to their knees were found to have greater incidences of arthritis. This is probably due to the limitations of human tissue, think of it like callouses. If you train with heavy weights you will develop strong callouses, but train with extremely heavy weights and you start tearing them off. As non-competitive athletes, it's important us normal people make smarter choices in regards to weight training and for squatting this can be done by choosing exercises that increase the difficulty for the muscle to work at the lightest weights possible. This absolutely requires us to travel the knees over the toes in order to achieve full range of motion, and is a natural movement for humans to achieve as we were required to squat this deeply daily just to defecate normally. I will close with this though. It's more important than an exercise feels good rather than is correct. What I mean by this is if a certain exercise feels painful or very uncomfortable, then it is not right for your body and you need to find an alternative. I dislike doing barbell back squats, I find it hurts my left ankle and right knee, but barbell front squats feel completely fine. If you feel that you need to limit your knees going over your toes for any reason, then do what feels comfortable and right, and seek out professional guidance from a physiotherapist of sports physician to work on how to increase your range of motion comfortably. I hope I gave you some insight from what little I know.

Same , any sport or exercise I do my quads will grow I think I have primarily slow twitch muscle fibre

Thank you, KV T! Keep at it, brother!

@@Kboges how old are you?

@@ticketforlife2103 I remember reading that he was somewhere between 35 and 40 years old

Thanks, Nikolas! I appreciate the feedback and support 🙏

WOW! Dude that is awesome. I'm super inspired by Indian wrestlers. Those guys are just absolute beasts!

Give it a shot, but start slow.

Strengthen Glute med and min.

it won't deal with stress from running what so ever. check out phil wharton

Stop running so often lol, especially on hard ground like pavement

@@InvisibleHotdog nah, I run 6 days a week and never have knee pain in my life, OP probably a heel striker with unsuitable footwear.

Peter, I totally agree!

Yeah it's a myth that just won't go away 😂 Glad you enjoy these!

Cool to hear this helps skateboarding! You are absolutely right. The transferability and knee health benefits are awesome.

Jimmy! Thanks for the kind words! Enjoy and report back!

Gama is amazing! Hugely inspirational. I would love to get to India at some point and train with the wrestlers.

Shut up

😂

Wow thank you so much! I really appreciate this!

So good to hear, Cowboy! Thank you for sharing your experience!

HAHAHAHAHA! This had me laughing, dude. Glad you enjoyed anyway.

Yeah it’s very popular among Indian wrestlers. Awesome exercise! Thanks!🙏

These are a more stressful variation, so you need to be slow with adding volume.

@@Kboges definitely 👍 Love you videos!

Great points on there for sure. Excellent nuance. Thank you for this addition!

Great use of this movement and excellent points! Thanks for the great comment, Daaron!

I love it! Great suggestion!

Nice

Thanks, Michael. Yeah it is really wild how much misinformation is out there.

He is the MASTER at that! It's defiantly a neglected area of training that pretty much everyone could benefit from.

Hugo, that is a great application for those who lift! Thank you for sharing!

Ahh thanks man! It's not super big and not super impressive but that's one of the points of the channel... you don't have to be a mass monster to have an athletic physique.

He was such a beast! I'm really inspired by the great Gama and the stories of how Indian wrestlers trained.

@@Kboges glad to hear it, his life story and wrestling both inspired me so much,during partition of india and Pakistan he alone saved many hindu families from armed crowd.

Thank you dude! Get after it, brother!

Dennis! Keep at it and you will be cranking out sets of 100. It takes some time, so don't rush it, but it's definitely within your capacity.

Sam this is an awesome suggestion! I hope the right people see this!

That's an interesting suggestion. I've recently been getting back into squatting motions after having my kneecap patched back together, and have been very cautious for quite some time about popping something loose. Gradual build-up of connective tissue is right in line with my needs.

@@stevenscott2136 Great thing about using steps is someone like yourself can use the 2nd or 3rd step to step to start and slowly increase the angle over time into a lower position. Good luck with the recovery!

Once you reach the point at which your knees are over your toes (not past) then start to bend at the waist and you will be able to go deeper without your knees going past your toes.

@@BWater-yq3jx knees over toes isn't bad, that's another myth

Thank you, William! I always appreciate you kind words, brother!

Heck yeah! They are perfect for activities that require high amounts of leg endurance.

The burn is real!💪💪

100% on both points, Marcus.

Thats a really great point! Thank you for adding.

Nice work! I'll be making more content on this exercise in the future. it is a great one!

Thanks, Superhuman!

Awesome commentary and suggestions! Thanks for this!

Well done, Nate! That's a great way to stay fit!

may i ask what "low impact push ups" are?

@@MutenRoscher 2 examples are: Knees on the ground position Full extension but using a bench,chair,wall

@@natemcdonald8853 oh ok, i see! thanks

@@MutenRoscher 😀

Indian culture is such a wealth of physical knowledge and tradition. It's truly inspiring!

Hahaha heck yeah! These are amazing and I plan to do them my whole life!

Dude that is awesome! What have you noticed in terms of benefits with volumes that high?

Dude exactly! I had a very similar experience when I was lifting. It’s easy to forget that all these approaches are tools for a particular outcome. When you select the wrong tool for the job wow you certainly know it!

Thanks, fufu! Glad you enjoyed!

100% so true! Exercises that you can age with are incredibly important.

Jesus is coming, so please repent and turn to Him and believe what He did to us so u may be saved❤ He is our Lord and Savior and bc of Him we dont have to go to hell

@@Hjjjjj254 What the fuck does Jesus have to do with physical exercises for limitless stamina? Why would you assume I need to repent for anything? I am morally perfect, thank you very much. There is no Hell, unless you are Sartre and believe that Hell is other people. Save it for the storefront huckster church, pal.

Exactly!

Thank you!

Hahaha yeah man. No complaints. San Diego is a great spot but it has changed a lot. It's not the same place it used to be, but the weather and natural beauty is still here.

I'd still kill for a view like that @@Kboges

Oh I feel you, man. What so cool about this, is it's a little hidden gem in the middle of an old middle class neighborhood. My wife and I used to live a block away and one day were walking around this area and thought it would be amazing if we could get a house on the trail, which is what you see behind my deck. We ended up looking the next day, happened to find this house that just went up for sale like 2 days before, and moved in a month later. What's eve more wild is it was one of the only houses in SD that we could afford 😂 We got SOOO lucky and while the house still needs a ton of work (built in the 60's), I appreciate the little oasis in the back yard every day. @@eliotfaye

YES! This is a solid approach and I have used something very similar in the past. it will work just stay consistent and support your training with good rest and nutrition.

Thanks for sharing this! I've been working to figure out this exact thing.

Could this work if I wanted to test myself for sets of 5? Like for example, if my average for 5 sets of push ups is 15, then could I do 5 sets of 15 until it becomes easy and add 1 rep? Thanks for sharing this method.

@@michaeltallsman2740The honest answer is that I really don't know if it would work, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't. The key is to be close enough to failure every set (leaving 1-2 reps behind or so), but to not go all the way to failure because this will give some extra fatigue without extra muscle gains. Just remeber that you'll have to divide total reps in 5, because you're doing 5 sets instead of 3. For example: 15+13+12+10+10 = 60/5 = 12 reps. 5 sets of 12 reps.

Thanks for this description, Bill! Such an amazing exercise.

Spot on! Yes they are incredible.

@@Kboges Thanks for replying :)