Picture this: It’s 2018, I’m broke, and my gym membership just expired. Desperate to stay fit without dropping $50 a month, I stumbled across a YouTube video of a guy doing pull-ups on a park bench like it was his job. That was my intro to calisthenics—using nothing but my body weight to build strength, … Read more
Picture this: It’s a crisp morning in 2015, and I’m staring at my reflection in a foggy bathroom mirror after a night of too many beers and not enough sleep. At 28, I felt stuck—desk job sapping my energy, weekends lost to scrolling, and a gut that was starting to whisper regrets. I’d tried gyms, … Read more
It was a crisp fall morning when I first ditched the gym weights for a park pull-up bar, skeptical but curious about calisthenics. No machines, no fees—just my body and gravity. Fast forward a year, and those simple moves turned me from a desk-bound sloucher to someone who could crank out muscle-ups with a grin. … Read more
I’ll never forget the first time I tried a pull-up in my backyard, clinging to a rusty bar my dad had bolted to the porch years ago. My arms shook, my grip slipped, and I barely got my chin above the bar, but the thrill of using nothing but my body to move like that? … Read more