It's not degrading to call them "street workouts." It gives credit to their origin. You don't have weights and bands on the street; You have the ground, sturdy metal bars, and your body weight. Simple.

Calisthenics is the most portable form of strength exercise out there. Well done video.

This is REALLY well put together.

@JakeGreen-dw7vi

9 ай бұрын

No it sucks he doesnt know what hes talking about during the medievel period its was well documented for british soldiers, I can think think of other examples like ancient egyptions memorals on walls etc, besides this is the guy who is 180lbs at 6'2, so I dont think he knows much about effective strength training lol,

@NewsWeeklyThe

9 ай бұрын

​@@JakeGreen-dw7viTell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video lmao

@thegrayquillarc2740

9 ай бұрын

Right

@HkFinn83

9 ай бұрын

@@JakeGreen-dw7viit’s well put together as a video but some of the information in it is dubious. The stuff about ‘mistranslating’ Herodotus for example is totally made up. This is the issue with the internet, ‘good’ content generally means slickly made and edited, the quality of the info is a separate issue

@spidey-texas

8 ай бұрын

@@HkFinn83 Just Google 'Histories 7.208' for the chapter Herodotus talks about the Spartan training. 'While they debated in this way, Xerxes sent a mounted scout to see how many there were and what they were doing. While he was still in Thessaly, he had heard that a small army was gathered there and that its leaders were Lacedaemonians, including Leonidas, who was of the Heracleid clan. Riding up to the camp, the horseman watched and spied out the place. He could, however, not see the whole camp, for it was impossible to see those posted inside the wall which they had rebuilt and were guarding. He did take note of those outside, whose arms lay in front of the wall, and it chanced that at that time the Lacedaemonians were posted there. *He saw some of the men exercising naked and others combing their hair.* He marvelled at the sight and took note of their numbers. When he had observed it all carefully, he rode back in leisure, since no one pursued him or paid him any attention at all. So he returned and told Xerxes all that he had seen.'

This video is amazing and it looks like there was lots of effort put into this. At first I thought this was made by a large youtube with how well it was put together.

@FLARE080

9 ай бұрын

you said it man i thought the same

It's criminal that this only has 30k views. This deserves so much more. The details, research, sources, and effort put into this is phenomenal.

@nayvv

9 ай бұрын

45k only 20 hours later. I think the algorithm picked it up 📈📈

@thomasryan825

9 ай бұрын

@@nayvv onto 49K, still growing!

@atomiclasagna

9 ай бұрын

ADOY PFP

@nikmrn

9 ай бұрын

60k 2 days later

@Memesdotcom

8 ай бұрын

videos been in my recommendations page like 10 times never clicked it I saw it go from 9k to 150k and now I had to click it

Ah, push-ups and pull-ups, my 2 favorite exercises.

This was a brilliant and well researched video, the soundtrack is fire too!!! 1 thing i think you left out was the connection between the military and the prison system. A lot of soldiers returning from the Korean and Vietnam wars, ended on the streets and eventually in prison. They introduced military type training and organization to prison gangs which is something that exist even to this day.

@spidey-texas

9 ай бұрын

That's really interesting, thank you for sharing! :D

When it comes to medieval and renaissance Europe, you could speculate that they might have done things like push ups, but I think the lack of them in detailed descriptions of exercise (Boucicaut, Pietro Monte, Hans Talhoffer etc) are a strong clue that they didn't know what a push up was. If they did repetition exercises like pull ups, they'd have mentioned them in writing alongside the staples of climbing ropes and ladders, dancing, running, swimming, throwing, swinging a weighted wooden sword etc.

Interesting fact: my cousin Brandon Tucker, did the most (in recorded history) pullups in 24hrs

That's the quality Internet content needs, the whole thing is dope af

This is UNBELIEVABLE, I have watched hundreds of history/analysis type videos and this is one of the best I've ever seen, the details, the way you find connections, most of all the ending summary sold it for me. This is better than some actual historians out there. I really hope the algorithm realises your potential.

I never comment on videos, but you deserve the algorithm boost. Insanely good video. Thank you man.

THIS is the video we deserve but we didn't know we needed

I always imagined they did more "functional drills" in ancient militaries. Climbng obstacles, running, getting up of the ground and doing manuveors in full armour. Rather than doing reps of pushups or pullups. I imagine they did the functional movements themselves, rather than a segment of the movement.

9 ай бұрын

romans had an insane endurance training program like marching, they had to do every week a long march of 30km in under 5h all while carying 60 pounds of equipment.

Bruh this is a whole Documentary. Superbly put together and excellently voiced over . I have a short attention span and not once did I press skip . Hats off to you sir

In the early 2000's I got introduced to the And 1 Mixtapes by a friend. I think I had volumes 5-8 and in the one that featured Alimoe, if I'm not mistaken, had bonus features like the Ghetto Workout which showed Alimoe doing calisthenics in random places on the street to show it can be done anywhere. It wasn't the first Ghetto Workout feature though and I think they had done it on at least one of the earlier volumes.

Great video man! Never seen someone go into such detail about the history of calisthenics. Really interesting stuff.

Beautiful video. Had alot of nostalgia from the 2000´s clips and the music. Thank you for that.

Your playlist is valid bro. Respect 🤞🏾

Wow thanks a lot for the massive effort on creating this gem to us. Well done ✅

AMAZING video! We really need more videos talking about the history of physical culture and other subtopics that surround it!

Thank you for this massive amount of researches! Thank you for bringing us the knowledge of our favourite moves.

But to be fair, who needed push up, pull ups, and squats when most people will be plowing fields, carrying tons of water, and other manual labors day in day out.

@ethanchaney1139

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. In a weird turn of events, since lifting is so much more popular now, and most people’s idea of working out also involves some level of resistance training, people are seemingly less physical robust but those who exercise are even more capable than humans may have been all throughout history. We’re as a culture weaker, but for those who dodworkout, even your average gym bro may be stronger than old school athletes.

@ethanchaney1139

9 ай бұрын

There’s a high school football player named big Jimbo who’s probably stronger than anyone in the NFL in 1920 since lifting is so heavily pushed now.

@innocentram1800

9 ай бұрын

@@ethanchaney1139 I would even say that given nutritional availability, most training we do modern days is detrimental at best and suicidal at worst.

@ethanchaney1139

9 ай бұрын

@@innocentram1800 What do you mean by that? Nutritional availability? We know way more about nutrition and getting good nutrition is easier than its ever been. We used to think rat poison was a performance enhancing drug. As fond as people are of the past, we’re actually smarter and better than we used to be. Sure we’re fatter, but I’d prefer a bigger stronger society than a skinny one. Or how drug use is generally going down. As a whole.

@innocentram1800

9 ай бұрын

@@ethanchaney1139 oh I meant that back then food was not really available for the common people. Training back in the days did not make sense for most people.

Really good video, very well researched.

Nah my guy you need more recognition. Sick vid 👊

I remember having "Calisthenics" as part of the Elementary school Phys Ed. during the late 70's/early 80's. At the time it was sort of the go-to work out for schools: Calisthenics + "Athletics" (Track and Field).

I watch a lot of KZread and i must say this was a great idea for a video and it was executed to perfection

This is incredible content. Subscribed!

I guess I remember about 5% of that. Thank you for putting it all together; it was extremely interesting. Love it.

Very interesting, love the quality

this is a very nice video I didn’t expect to watch the whole thing

I came for the content and I'm LIVING for the music 😂 a legit hip hop, health and history masterclass 💪🏾

Great stuff here, thank you!

Ridiculously well made. Historic analysis and physical culture, what more could we ask for?

12:31 did not expect seeing my climbing gym here. 🙌

As we can see from this video, give people a bar (or two) and tell them to do increasingly difficult exercises and they end up doing largely the same things, since we all have the same bodies. I think that to know what ancient peoples like the Spartans did, look to wrestlers, who often strength train purely with their bodies and the body of their partner. Ancient peoples didn’t have bars, which is why they didn’t do pull ups. Just a thought of mine! Thank you for this excellent video, man. 💪

Excellent job my brother you did your research without dismissing anybody that may have been apart of this thing we love. Gd fucking video👍🏿

Great video. I hope to see more like them.

My god dude, bravo. This is a dissertation’s worth of research.

underrated documentary, this should be played at schools. this too FUCKING awesome.

You are underrated bro. This video needs more views

Cool video, thanks for putting it together

just WOW, doing this intense research and reading lot of books and research paper without being paid a single penny is a feat bro

I didn't know warm ups had such an interesting backstory

@spidey-texas

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for helping me correct it :D

@liamfrabetti5455

9 ай бұрын

My pleasure

Subbed good production quality.

What an excellent video!

Ah some lore on my favourite activity. I love it.

The "rhythmic movements" Herodotus refers to more likely refer to field drills and synchronized marching. We don't have much Spartan poetry, but most of what we have seems to have been chanted during drills, like army cadence chants. This allowed them to time their movements and change formation rapidly and precisely, thus making them a formidable opponent on the battlefield.

amazing work

This video deserves more views

Besides the content, amazing music selection!

Great work. Thank you.

tf2 videos, toby fox pfp, and an incredible video on calisthenics??? im flabbergasted.. you are amazing man

Fascinating!

You should do a video on the history of calisthenics in general because the word calisthenics was pretty much taken from the general public and brought into a specific sphere

Very interesting video would 100% recommend

Simply amazing. I've always had the curiosity about the history of the subject, finally,someone made a video about it. Thanks alot

Respect , you went deep bro .

@Kaledrone

9 ай бұрын

That's what she said

fantastic work

I love the rich amount of history you've been presenting in this video. Bravo on the work, I wish more can see your hard efforts. Ngl though, your voice reminds me of QOVES studio. You're not him are you? 😏😏 The amount of info in their channel is just as good as yours

@spidey-texas

8 ай бұрын

Haha! That gave me a good chuckle. I wouldn't be of QOVES studio but I hear the resemblance

Great video bro

Very good informative video

Great video 💯💯

Amazing video :D

Background music on point

only your 7th upload? you came out swinging brother!

Bro, was not expecting to just vibe to all these samples from classic hip hop.

People tend to think logical equals they must've done it. A pushup seems logical to us nowadays, but you didn't know what a pushup was until someone showed you. I'm sure there are millions of things you have learned that you see as logical now but couldn't even think of till you were shown. People forget that things throughout history were just forgotten or just blatantly weren't known. This isn't directed towards the person in this video, but the many people I see who talk about history with the knowledge they have now, rather than considering the truth of people just outright not knowing what is common sense now.

You earned a fan 😊thank you

When I did 2 weeks in county, over a decade ago, I got f'ing ripped with burpees alone. Haven't done them since. Now that I do yoga, pretty sure that starting burpees again, adding planks (planks are so effing underrated) and Hindu squats, I'd be feeling like a demi-god.....like base level Goku, easily

You didn’t mention the ancient Mesopotamian (I think Assyrian) state decrees calling for all military aged males to train rope climbing, spear throwing and swimming/running in order to stay in shape in case of conscription. I think the rope climbing is pretty clearly a reference to calisthenics workout and would be the closest to an ancient description of a “pull-up” for strength training.

Great video man. Thought you would be a large youtube channel

@rabyeen

9 ай бұрын

🎉 0:01

Great video. 6:40 I must point out that while the term mallakhamb doesn't find mention before the 18th century, a 12th century Sanskrit text out of modern day Gujarat called Manasollasa mentions a system of exercises called "Stambha Shrama" meaning vertical pole exercises.

Love the homework you put into this. Thank you!

bro the video is 100% great and i fucking love ur music test same as mine lol :)

Bro explained extremely well

The music and video is bussin

1:55 min into this video and I already know this gonna be a good one. Why doesn't it have more vieuws??

amazing video

Instrumentals on this video 🔥

That mobb deep soundtrack is perfect for this topic. Calisthenics is pretty much the jailhouse workout routine.

Underated youtuber

SO COOOOL, do you have some degree in journalism/history ?? bcs that looks like some really well done pro work

Really interesting

Very good video

The boom bap hip hop oooh so sweet Make me wanna do calisthenics for life

16:15 I knew at a certain point one of my pictures would show up in this video 😂😂 that double planche is a picture I took of Cesar Sosa and Mauro Yoshida.

My own philosophy for callisthenics is doing them everyday forever. I do fullbody. Pull-ups/dips/pistol squats pushups+Weighted. BW only wont get u so far

@DiamorphineDeath

9 ай бұрын

Bodyweight also has no hip hinge movement available. Bodyweight plus weights and a compotent approach to the physique is the golden pill. The bodyweight only crowd is exclusionary based on ideology, not based on logic or reason. My one dislike of how they approach it, it's like anything weighted is morally wrong; whereas I used to work in a forest doing blue collar style stuff, and I had to pick up and walk logs, stumps, rocks, etc....I had to lift weights, so it's funny that their aversion to "weights" is not reflected in the real world. So I agree, there has to be a mixture and melding.

Good job 👍

Someone finally used dmx

You forgot how our pre-human ancestors lived in trees and did pull-ups all day everyday going from branch to branch🐒

@irishscience580

9 ай бұрын

You say that like it's fact. Evolution is a theory with no evidence

@jhdiscordmemes8073

9 ай бұрын

​@@irishscience580so the human remains tens of thousands of years old are not evidence?

@irishscience580

9 ай бұрын

@@jhdiscordmemes8073 that's micro evolution, I'm talking about macro evolution. To look at micro evolution then conclude that slime turned into human beings is an assumption. Non scientific no evidence to support. That's why it's called a theory

@mrmoth26

8 ай бұрын

​@@irishscience580there is a lot of evidence, all the evidence points towards it. It is a fact. In science, theory just means the most likely explanation of a fact. They can be true facts and generally are.

@irishscience580

8 ай бұрын

@@mrmoth26 you just proved my point. Scientists look at micro evolution then assume that macro evolution happened because of micro evolution. It's an assumption with no evidence. Scientists also assume the time periods of fossils or bones, what animals those fossils and bones belonged too etc. It's all assumptions with no actual evidence.

Well done

27:06 some names are shown twice, i'll have mercy tho😭

Love it

It kinda bugs me when people label calisthenics specifically as “prison workouts”

Super necessary 👏 👏

X GON GIVE IT TO YA

Nobody gonna mention his amazing music taste?

I wish I had that level of investigation skills... This dude seems to find elephants under rocks

the biggie soundtrack.... niiiiice