Episode 34: Progressive Calisthenics with Al Kavadlo

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On todays episode we have a full house! Joined by Bret and Megan Hamilton we welcome Al Kavadlo to the the Show. We talk about, the PCC, developing body awareness and training outdoors.

Growing up Al always worked out doing push-up’s and pulls-up’s, and in high school got into lifting weights. He, started as a traditional personal trainer but slowly transitioned to more body weight movements with his workouts and with his clients. Now most of his work with body and calisthenic work.

Bret and Al talk about how making slight adjustments to exercises can make a huge difference in how the exercise feels, and how calisthenic work can be so fun and creative.

Al graduated college with an English degree and just happen to fall into a personal training job. Al luckily found a publisher looking for a fitness writer and so began his writing career. Al has become an accomplished author of many books, his first book was We’re working out. When a copy of that book got into Paul Wade’s hands he approached Al to be apart of Convict Condition 2. Al’s current book is Street Workout a book he and his brother Danny wrote together.

When asked about grip strength and hand maintenance Al says that is a aspect that commonly gets overlooked by trainers and people new to calisthenics. His suggestion is to just ease into it. Bret suggests using towels to hang from and Megan recommends, pumice stone or corn huskers lotion.

On this episode we talk about mixing calisthenics into your existing program and how picking one or two movements to do on rest days or between sets is a great way to expand your movement vocabulary and get your toes wet in calisthenics. Not only does this give a playful feel to your workouts it also keeps your heart rate elevated and allows you to get more work done in less time.

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