Where to start, my first routine?

[Guest]

My first routine...I have several years of traditional weight training experience however, over the last year I have "grown" to appreciate the importance of both bodyweight and gymnastic fitness and skills..

I understand the proposed training schedule is a M, T, Thr, F regime.

My question is, should I perform strength building exercies on all days and then practice skill progressions(planche, front lever) after the strength exercises every day or vice versa.. or am I completely off?

Should strength routines be split between push and pulls, on separate days? A suggested starter would be great.. I would like to learn the planche or LSit as my first skill, if that makes sense??

Any help is soooo greatly appreciated!!!

[Blairbob]

L sit is a bit different than just comparing front lever and planche. Obviously we would categorize lever and planche as pull and push. L sit is somewhat of a push and lower/mid body skill.

I would do your sets of 60s of static/isometric as your initial strength work before moving on to bent limb movements or stuff like L sit.

If you are really beginning, you may want to split it up like planche/lever 1st day, handstand/body lever/L sit/L-V hang 2nd day and back to planche/lever.

You can probably do glute ham/pistol every other workout.

Leg lifts and body levers somewhere in there too. Handstands should be in there somewhere. Perhaps first after wrist prep/conditioning and bridges ( generally I do bridges at the end of a WU ). Working HS and press HS can be laughable after planche work. However, if you don't kill yourself on those strength holds you might still be able to do free, wall, and press HS/HeS work decently.

Stuff like dips and pullups, pushups, squats to finish it all up. Tabata would be easy.

[Guest]

Many thanks for your guidance.

Just to be sure, you mentioned doing the leg work every other exercise.

However, I can do the other strength support work, ex. pull ups, dips, rows etc. every workout 4 days a week? 3 sets of 3-5 reps for the most part???

Very much appreciated!

[Blairbob]

If you break it properly, you could. Not the same stuff every day. Leg stuff probably every day, I'm just thinking doing pistols 4x a week is probably not the best idea but could be feasible. All depends on how many reps, sets and where you are.