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Those are all valid questions and you are in luck. I spent more than a
year and a half following ThenX online programs so I could share my
experience with you.
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1 Why I started doing calisthenics with ThenX
2 5 reasons why I purchased ThenX.com membership
3 Are ThenX free daily workouts worth trying?
4 My first impressions after buying ThenX membership
5 ThenX online beginner calisthenics program flaws
6 ThenX online beginner calisthenics program benefits
7 My first impression on ThenX intermediate calisthenics program
8 Taking a break from ThenX and experiment with weighted calisthenics
9 My first impression on ThenX intermediate calisthenics and weights
program
10 I ditched ThenX and created my own workouts routines
11 Review of the ThenX video web content
12 ThenX daily workouts
12.1 Fat burning workouts
12.2 Repetition building workouts
12.3 Tabatha workouts
13 Review of ThenX online workout programs
14 ThenX introduction program
15 ThenX beginner program
15.1 Whole-body workout
15.2 Increase repetitions day
15.3 Fat Burning days:
15.4 The Cons of ThenX beginner workout program
16 ThenX intermediate calisthenics program
17 ThenX intermediate calisthenics and weights program
18 ThenX technique guides
18.1 ThenX pull over technique guide
18.2 ThenX handstand technique guide
18.3 ThenX muscle-up technique guide
19 ThenX review summary
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After many months of soul searching, the only logical conclusion was
to stop being fat and be fit instead. So I took action and started to look
for online bodyweight workout tutorials, that can be done at home
without any pieces of equipment.
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I was curious. I soughed after the same physique without the need of
going into the gym. I didn’t hesitate for too long and immediately
smashed the play button.
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That was spring 2017. ThenX channel had only around 250k
subscribers. Now at the time of this review, they grew to over 3.1 m
subscribers.
It’s incredible how far you can go if you consistently provide value to
your audience and teach others how to be their best self.
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I was a cheap bastard, who even didn’t want to pay for a gym
membership, just because there was a free alternative. Street workout
parks are free and there are plenty of them everywhere. And who
knows if I would still practice ThenX programs a year after.
For each of their 8-week workout program, you can access the 1st
week for free. As for their technique guides, the first few videos are free
to watch too. Additionally, there are free daily workouts, that are
generated automatically every day.
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After a month of dieting and doing free daily workouts, I was hooked.
My body fat percentage went down, while my strength climbed up.
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If you ever wanted to learn those flashy street workout skills you saw in
talent shows, you could acquire it with thenX tutorials. As I said earlier,
I was ready to start ThenX beginner calisthenics program.
Firstly, video content is not always synced with actual content on the
website.
E.g. in one video showing a skill progression, Chris Heria says to the
camera that, he will show us a workout, that will help us in achieving
the next progression. But there is no promised workout video in the
technique guide section. It seems like they forgot to add a promised
workout, or they removed it afterward but didn’t update video content
to reflect the changes.
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In the first week, they tell you to do l-sit for 15 seconds. But the video
shows an l-sit on the floor. How in hell can a person, who never trained
calisthenics, do an l-sit on the floor in the first week of a beginner
program?
It would make sense if repeating the whole week again would help you
in achieving the unmet repetition amount. Say, from 8 push-ups to 12
push-ups. But this is not the case.
Most of the time, the reason you won’t be able to finish a workout is
the steep jump in the difficulty, like from 0 muscle-ups to 10 muscle-
ups as a warm-up. You then either give up and do something else or
you repeat whole week multiple times and get bored.
Sure, what I liked the most about beginner program was the variety
and intensity of the exercises. I didn’t have time to get bored, workouts
are that intense.
With proper nutrition, I shed fat fast. I did not become muscular but
gained some strength though.
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Below are the most important lessons beginner program gave me:
Apart from muscle-ups and handstand push-ups against the wall, all
other exercises were within strength limits of a fresh beginner
graduate.
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Okay, but will you become calisthenics ninja by doing the intermediate
program?
One thing I couldn’t improve at all was handstand push up against the
wall.
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I felt the burn again. I felt, how my shoulder and biceps tendons are
torn apart. I felt, how wearing a weight belt while doing move, that
most of the people in the gym can’t do with clear form, can bring you
unsolicited attention.
For the first time in my life, I saw the results of progressive overload in
practice. My lats were as a result somehow wider than usual.
The program is formed around push-pull days with legs, abs and
shoulder days in between. It will teach you the most important barbell
exercises, such as deadlifts, squats and bench press.
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First, it was so boring to just grab a weight and move it in space. There
is no technique involved and you can easily cheat the form. In
calisthenics, if you don’t know how to activate muscle mind
connection, your progress will stop really quickly. With weights, poor
form is compensated by surrounding muscle groups. You will think you
are getting stronger, but is it just an illusion. You can get away with it
for a really long time until you get injured from muscle imbalance.
Second, I felt the burn after lifting heavy weights, but I didn’t feel the
pump, that I got from doing high-intensity circuit calisthenics
workouts. With less intensity and less emphasis on endurance comes
better recovery rate. When you overdo calisthenics, you stay sore for at
least a week before your body completely process accumulated lactate
acid. Soreness from weights lasted only a day or two.
Apart from the holy trinity, other barbell and dumbbell exercises are
subpar at best.
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I did gain some muscles, but I was not satisfied with my overall
physique. Maybe because I was still in permanent 200-400 caloric
bulk. I gained fat at a faster rate than muscles as a result.
But thanks to permanent bulk, my lift increased every two weeks. Sets
and reps are designed with bulking in mind anyway.
You will train for strength for one week and then switch to hypertrophy
training another week. Otherwise, mixing lifting and calisthenics was
fun.
On the other hand, If I started with pull-ups, I could still slash out 10
reps in deadlifts afterward. With slightly more discomfort, but without
breaking the form.
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If the move relies only on strength and endurance without any skill
requirements, then I do pyramid style training. Otherwise, I do 4 sets of
4 to 6 exercises.
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Other website features are not important nor interesting. You can visit
their shop and buy ThenX merchandise. You can look at their member
directory and see who is part of ThenX community. Or you can manage
your account in the profile section.
For me, daily workouts were the reason I stuck with ThenX programs.
Each day a new workout is published.
The focus of the workouts alternates between abs, whole body, chest
and triceps, legs, back and biceps, shoulders. Exactly in that order.
There are 3 types of daily workouts: fat burning, rep building, and
Tabatha.
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So on a chest and triceps day, you will do your usual triceps exercises
like dips, then you will spicy it with mountain climbers. I don’t know
how much more calories you will burn, but definitely, more than you
would expect.
On a back day, you will do every pull progression you can think of.
Why? In theory, rep endurance is improved by exhausting each and
every muscle in your back.
Tabatha workouts
Then there are Tabatha days. Tabatha workouts don’t have sets and
reps, but sets and duration instead. For example, on a back day, you
will do 25 seconds of pull-ups, then 25 seconds of jumping pull up
negatives.
I don’t get the science behind duration based workouts. What’s the
point? It’s very hard to keep constant effort the whole time. Most
people will slack off and make bigger pauses between reps.
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Each workout starts with a warm-up and ends with 4 rounds of fat-
burning exercises. I think 4 rounds is a lot.
As a beginner, you will spend one hour and a half each day every day.
At least I was. So ThenXs statement, that workouts can take you from
45-60 mins, is wrong.
Technically, if you skip the warm-up, train like a robot, never exceed
rest time and keep maximum effort all the time, then maybe. I was not
able to finish the workout in less than 60 mins. 30 seconds rest is just
enough to catch a breath. One day it was so hot outside, that I almost
threw up after a fat-burning workout.
Don’t push yourself too hard and always watch your health.
If you are a total beginner, daily workouts will help you with building
habits, gaining strength and learning proper form.
From my experience, by the end of the third month, you will get used
to the intensity and difficulty of daily workouts and you will have to
increase the change the routine. That was the right moment to start
ThenX Calisthenics beginner program.
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Each move has its own introduction intro, which will explain the pros
and cons and show correct form with a full range of motion. After
watching the intro, you can start practicing the easiest progression. In
the case of pull-ups, you will start with Australian pull-ups.
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Then after you learn the form, you will build up strength for the next
progression by doing rep building workouts. Each move is broken
down into multiple progression steps. And even those steps are can be
broken down into dozen variations. In the case of Australian pull-ups,
another variation is Australian chin-ups. Having different variations is
important for activating all muscles involved in the move in all possible
angles.
Every second progression has a master workout, which will test your
capabilities. The workout is done in a reverse pyramid fashion. You start
with the hardest progressions and you scale down in difficulty with
each set.
I found it challenging and fun. You immediately apply what have you
learned. I remember I did pull up master workout for almost a month,
doing jumping negative pull-ups, jumping pull-ups, Australian pull-
ups, Australian chin-ups, in all grip variations. I was embarrassed, that I
couldn’t pull myself up and have to jump up on the bar, but nobody
cared and negatives helped to reach my first pull up.
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And how long should I hold myself? Should I use all three grip
variations for holding?
As a beginner, you want clear step by step guide, that you can blindly
follow. You don’t want to guess. You don’t have experience yet to
judge, what is best for you and what is not optimal.
I was not alone. There were many others, who were on the same boat.
Almost every tutorial video has a comment section, that is flooded with
questions on how to interpret confusing instructions, but ThenX never
bothered to reply or to include answers into their Faqs section.
Once you are a paid customer, you are invisible. There is no customer
support what so ever.
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Similarly to daily workouts, each workout day has its own purpose. One
day you will focus on fat burning, another day on the whole body.
Apart from familiar daily workout types, there are two new additions,
increase repetitions days and challenge days. The main difference
between dailies and beginner program is the doubled difficulty in
terms of sets and reps. There are two rest days a week to compensate
for higher intensity.
Beginner program has shorter warm-ups but also has more than one
round, each having at least 6 exercises. And you repeat each round
three times.
When you take into consideration the total volume, while keeping 30
seconds rest and 30 seconds set, you will have trouble finishing
workout under one hour. In fact, each workout took me nearly two
hours to finish.
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I don’t think it’s necessary to work out that much to achieve your
strength and hypertrophy goals. I was always dead exhausted after the
workout and I was wondering if overtraining was a real thing. During
the fifth week, I almost wanted to give up, but I pushed myself through
the pain.
Whole-body workout
This workout mixes exercises, that you learned in the introduction
program, with few cross fit exercises, like burpees and shoulders to
shoulders.
Anyway, there are some exercises, that are out of place. I mean, as a
beginner, who just finished ThenX introduction program, it’s highly
unlikely, that you can do 10 reps of diamond push up as a warm-up on
your first day of a beginner program.
It would make more sense if they told you to take as much time as you
need to finish those 10 reps, but there were no such instructions. I
could do hardly one rep.
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What does it mean? I was confused too. But my theory is, that you
should do as many reps as you can, in one go, until you form breaks.
No pauses between reps.
I get it. You can’t train you strength movements every day, and putting
full cardio workout once in a while is a convenient way to fill out empty
days in a program.
I just didn’t enjoy it at all and had to drag myself each morning.
Take for example back & biceps workout in the second week. They put
high knee raises as the last exercise of a back & biceps focused
workout. What’s the point?
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Next. Workouts get more and more difficult, which is achieved in many
ways.
In a beginner program, they tell you to do 15-sec l-sit. But when you
play the video, Chris Heria is doing l-sit on the floor. Floor variation is
like 100 times harder than l-sit on dip bars.
As a beginner, you are confused and you just can’t continue in the
program until you learn l-sit on the floor. Because instructions clearly
say you should repeat a whole week if you face any troubles.
derivative equation just after you learned how to sum two numbers.
Anyway, I can’t deny, that beginner program will bring you results. I
learned a lot about myself by finishing it. E.g. that I am stronger in
pushing movements due to naturally big triceps.
would help me with learning those moves. So I told myself, let’s not
waste time on dedicated training and just wing it. If exercise is too
hard, I will skip it.
The first week starts smoothly, but then the difficulty ramps up really
quickly. On the last day of the first week, you will do 2 rounds of 17
exercises, 5 times each. Or 170 exercises in total. That is insane. There is
no logical reason to do so much cardio. Unless you really want to push
your endurance limits and burn fat. I had trouble with finishing the
workout in a reasonable time and always came late to work.
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This is an 8 weeks program with only one rest day each week.
In the first week, you will be doing as much as two to three weight
exercises each day. The minimum to learn the form of the exercises.
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much weight as you can do and cheat your way through the ROM, not
intentionally of course.
Take a chest flies for example. They don’t tell you to retract your
scapula and to activate the only chest with shoulders locked. They
don’t tell you to never go beyond your back with your elbows. Ignoring
biomechanics will cause muscle imbalance and will lead to potential
injury.
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While 8-week programs have a specific goal in mind, like helping you
gaining overall strength and endurance, it will end exactly after 8
weeks. But with skill techniques, they take forever to master. And
ThenX had all technique guides I sought after.
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But my main goal was not to learn skill asap but to reach my natural
physique potential before I get old. I can’t speed up the adaptation
process of my tendons anyway, so I am patient while learning new
skills.
My experience with many injuries taught me, that you can’t hurry the
process and sometimes, it is best to de-load and take a pause for week
or two (which does not apply for planche training thought).
So I started with pullover technique guide two years ago but learned
proper one just half a year ago. Why? Not because of the bad
technique guide, but because my core was not strong enough to lift
my butt up over the pull-up bar.
Sure, I could do toes to bar progression 6 months in, but the jump in
difficulty from toes to bar to upside-down deadlift was enormous for a
beginner.
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You see, sometimes ThenX progressions are not detailed enough and
you have to break down the move yourself to fight against plateau.
Yes, basics are covered, like stomach to wall drill, finger balancing tips,
kicking up and exiting methods, but this is not enough.
I wasted like a year following this guide and the only thing that I
achieved was back to wall handstand for 60 sec with an arched
back.
To this day, I still can’t do a free handstand at my will. But after I started
to follow Gabo Saturno tutorials, I progressed from random kicks ups
and falls, to 5 sec free handstands here and there, in a controlled
manner.
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Well, I can’t fix my past, but you can avoid my mistakes by learning
skills you want only from someone, who is the best in that field. Chris
Herias strengths are in explosive movements and weighted
calisthenics, so you can safely learn muscle up 360 or jump on the bar
from him, but learn handstand from someone else.
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Yes, skill is tricky, but you will learn it fast once you have required
strength. And I lacked strength.
As a beginner, you don’t want to rely solely on one program from one
guru, but try to be open-minded and try different teachings from other
gurus as well. Write down what works and what don’t and once you
identify the method, that helps you progress faster, then do it.
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The problem with ThenX guides is that it teaches you calisthenics the
same way Chris learned it himself, which is not suitable for
everyone. Not everyone has the same muscle insertions as Chris, same
tendon recovery and flexibility.
Can you add more leg days? I am hitting most of the upper
body 3/4 times a week but legs only once.
Yes, you can, bodyweight exercises are great for fat loss, but if you
want to gain muscles, you better replace ThenX leg days with some
barbell squats. That being said, one leg day a week is sufficient to
avoid chicken legs syndrome.
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Yes, if you like free trial workouts, you will get a lot more value with a
premium membership, which will keep you busy for years.
I just don’t get the part when they say max, it doesn’t make
sense
I don’t see any response from the questions people ask, and no
follow-up messages from their members, why?
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Don’t like the programs. They don’t scale normally, a big jump
from beginner to intermediate. The intermediate is harder
than the daily intermediate workouts IMO. Also big jump from
intermediate C&W to advanced C&W. I will do dailies until it
gets fixed.
This won’t get fixed. Bodyweight exercises are like that. Harder the
move, the bigger jump in difficulty. Planche is million times harder than
pull over.
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If you want to build muscles, eat-in caloric excess and train weights,
not calisthenics.
Treat each grip as an isolated exercise. Do wide grip then rest 30 secs
and then do close on and so on. If you can’t complete the rep amount,
you don’t have the strength and endurance required, so just rest as
needed until you reach your rep count.
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I have a question that I’ve been thinking over the past week.
So all these workouts seem to be using huge rep ranges that
are meant to get the muscles to complete failure. I mean I am
doing explosive push-ups, then maxing out regular push-ups
over 15 reps, then knee push-ups 15 reps again, I am maxing
out dips. Does this mean that these workouts focus mostly on
endurance and conditioning? I mean Chris himself has said
that strength building in the 7-12 range, then why do I need to
do those crazy max outs on pretty basic moves 5 days a week?
Sure it’s challenging, but maxing out your dips 3 times after
maxing out your push-ups, knee push-ups, and bench dips 4
times is challenging even if you can do 100 push-ups and have
very strong chest and great triceps. It’s a question of
endurance, not strength. Should the program be supplemented
with low rep workouts? What’s your view on how these
workouts are constructed?
Pyramid style workouts are the best for gaining strength and
endurance necessary for leveling up to the next progression.
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It totally depends on your recovery rate. With a front lever, you need
your back and shoulders at least partially recovered to make any
progress. I am training for front levers now, and I need to rest at least a
week after a regular back workout to attempt front lever training. But
that is just me. Fortunately, front lever progression depends a lot on
shoulder strength, that is required to initiate scapula retraction. So if
you have tired shoulder, you won’t be able to squeeze any reps. If you
are doing intermediate now, just do it on your first workout day after
rest days. Even if your first day is a back day, you will sacrifice some
pull up reps for the front lever.
Yes, ThenX says you should repeat the week if you were not able to
finish all requirements in the program. From my point of view, this is
nonsense. If your goal is to have the same endurance as Chris Heria,
probably you should repeat workouts until your body get used to such
high reps volume. Otherwise, just move on and do other things, such
as doing technique guides.
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Why are abs trained once per week? Isn’t it possible to train
them more often?
This way you don’t have to dedicate your time to training your abs.
After reaching sub 13% body fat, you will finally see your abs shapes, if
you squeeze them hard enough, in good lighting. Only then, if you
want them to be bulkier, then target your abs specifically with
dedicated workouts. My daily handstand training is enough to
maintain my abs visibly.
Ending notes
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membership or not. I don’t regret buying membership and spending
almost a year with ThenX programs.
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Brendan
Loved your review. It was very generous of you to give up your time to do it and
has influenced me in my decision about subscribing to thenx app. Forgive me for
asking but can you recommend a good alternative app for Calisthenics. I really
want to learn calisthenics. Many Thanks. Brendan from Ireland
Viet Phan
Hi Brendan,
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thank you for your support. Starting with ThenX literarily changed my life
and I think they are good starting point for beginners.
About the alternatives, can you share what are your specific goals, your age
and fitness level? For me as a fatso, It was beneficial to start with ThenX,
because of its focus on endurance training and my desire to shed some fat
first before learning my first pull up.
If I would be skinny fat or with above average fitness level, I would try
another ThenX app, Heria Pro App. What I like about it is the huge amount
of the exercises and the workout generator, where you type in specific parts
of your body you want to train, the time you want to spend and it will
generate a tailored workout for you.
The con of Heria Pro App is the lack of guidance and guides on important
calisthenics skills. And because workouts are random, it is not the most
efficient way to achieve your calisthenics strength and endurance goals.
The best thing about RR is the gradual progression from the most basic
exercises such as push ups to advanced push skills like planche. It is well
thorough guide made by calisthenics community and is safe option for
those who want to ditch endurance and start to become good at
calisthenics ASAP.
If you still want to use app in a mobile, I can recommend to try Strong App.
You can add custom workouts from Recommended Routine guide and
follow along. I personally use Strong to track my custom workouts, for
example number of muscle up reps.
As for other alternative workout apps, I don’t have any experience with
them, because they are not made by calisthenics PROs. And by judging
from screen shots in Apple Appstore, they are subpar at best. If you have
any specific calisthenics app in mind, let me know and I will do a review.
Hope this help and wish you luck in your calisthenics transformation
journey 🙂
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