{"id":44886,"date":"2020-12-14T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T10:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uscsport.nl\/?page_id=44886"},"modified":"2021-07-01T17:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T15:07:15","slug":"an-introduction-to-calisthenics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uscsport.nl\/en\/an-introduction-to-calisthenics\/","title":{"rendered":"An introduction to… Calisthenics!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know\u2026 some people are convinced that calisthenics is the way the ancient Greeks prepared themselves for war<\/a>? The word \u2018calisthenics\u2019 also derives from the ancient Greek words kal\u00f3s<\/em> and sthenos<\/em>, meaning \u2018beautiful\u2019 and \u2018strength\u2019. By the way\u2026 when doing calisthenics you\u2019re only using your body weight to work out!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Clumsy army shoes
\n<\/strong>Calisthenics has become more and more familiar over the last couple of years, and isn\u2019t just an Ancient Greek kind of thing anymore. For example in Japan, a special kind of calisthenics has been really popular since the 20th century: radio calisthenics<\/em>. These kind of musical exercises are quite similar to morning gymnastics, that we\u2019ve probably all done before at school camp once in our lives…\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Although the most common kind of calisthenics you may know from Instagram videos like this<\/a>. Where US Marines are working out like crazy, making it look like there\u2019s no such thing as gravity at all! And they\u2019re even wearing those clumsy army shoes while doing it.<\/p>\n

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Freezing hands
\n<\/strong>Almost everyone can do a calisthenics exercise. Because when you\u2019re doing a series of push-ups or squats, you\u2019re already doing it. Although there are endless possibilities \u2013 up onto flying though the air at the Olympics!<\/p>\n

If you start looking around, you\u2019ll notice how popular it really is. The calisthenics parks spring up like mushrooms all over town. They seem like the new basketball courts and skate parks. And during a corona-ravaged spring, it even turned out to be a blessing in the sky: you could keep working out when the gyms were closed.<\/p>\n

But during winter time, all the outdoor calisthenics parks were a little less pleasing: holding on to the rack with freezing hands \u2013 let alone pulling yourself up. Luckily, we can now all train indoors again and defy gravity in the USC gym.<\/p>\n

Are you excited to try out calisthenics, but you don\u2019t really know how to get started? We also have a beginners course<\/a> you can sign up for! The course registration starts on Monday 9 August 12.00h.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know\u2026 some people are convinced that calisthenics is the way the ancient Greeks prepared themselves for war? The word \u2018calisthenics\u2019 also derives from the ancient Greek words kal\u00f3s […]","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44886","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAn introduction to... 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