Hello,I am a 14 year old boy who started calisthenics.
I just want to ask can I do the fat burning routine you have uploaded in the bonus videos during my rest day( after my full body workout day)? Can I do my full body workout after i wake up without breakfast?
Thanks.
Hey vignes,
first of all great that you started working out! with 14 i spent time in front of my pc playing call of duty:-D i prefer your choice!
1) the rest days are very important my friend, your body do not adapt without enough rest time. that means no muscle growing if you give your body not the chance. i would recommend you doing the cardio routine on the same day, but maybe in the evening, so you split up your workout. if you do not have enough time, do it on the rest days, but not on everyone. for example a week could look like:
day1: training
day2: cardio
day3:training
day4:rest
day5:training
day6:cardio
day7:training
day8: rest
at least try to find some rest days!
2) of course you can do the full body workout after waking up without breakfast, but the question is why? do you want to lose some fat? if not, i would recommend you to have a good breakfast, it supports with the energy you need for your workout. please give an answer than i would like to give you a detailed text back about the pros and cons of working out with nothing eaten before :-) but for that, you should inform us about your goals
Good answer by Josef/Joker. There's many different cardio ways, I'd say it's fine if you do moderate intensity, something like jump rope or running on a rest day, but don't do something like follow a HIIT on the internet that has push ups squats and all that just because it burns a lot of calories, you need to rest your muscles and running & jump rope don't require that much, jump rope mostly requires the muscles as stabilizer (except for the shoulder rotation of course).
Second thing, I think it's mostly a matter of preference, I tried it once but I felt like I was gonna die, seriously lol. If you can do it I don't see why not, maybe 2 hours (average duration of these full body workouts) is a bit too long though for fasted training. In the end for fat loss what matters are calories really.. If you're not losing fat you're simply eating too much or not burning enough calories throughout the day and fasted training will not make a difference if you go eat 10,000 calories of bad foods, I overexaggerated a bit but you get the idea. I don't know if it has too many benefits, try it and see how you feel after 2 weeks or something. You just need to plan the workout & nutrition according to your own lifestyle (both the fasted training and the cardio on rest days), like we can give you a general advice but if you can't do it because of your lifestyle and timing, change it up accordingly. Salute!