Calisthenics Classes in Brighton | Energy For Life

Our dynamic mobility based warm up will improve range of movement, promote blood flow, engage your brain and mobilise your joints ready for action. Then we will introduce drills and exercises to help prepare, learn technique and activate your body for the specific exercises in the main strength segment.

The main focus of our calisthenics classes is to learn and develop specific body-weight movements such as handstands, movements suspended on olympic rings such as skin the cats, front and back levers and muscle-ups, plus body-weight leg movements like pistol squats. Every 6 weeks we choose a new movement(s) to focus on and teach drills that you can use to progress from being a total beginner to advanced.

After focusing on skills development, we then get into targeted body-weight strength and conditioning to build overall strength and fitness levels in the areas we need to improve at the skills we are focused on. So you leave the session with that post-workout pump of feel good endorphins running through your veins!

The last 5 minutes of a calisthenics class at Energy for Life will focus on core strengthening. You can think of your core as your torso and the joints that attach your limbs to your torso. With this definition in mind, our core work is about far more than endless ab exercises. Our aim is to improve strength and function of all the muscles around your torso, including hips and shoulder joints. We use a mixture of isometric and dynamic exercises to improve postural stability, and dynamic strength through a full range of motion. These are rarely the exercises you see people boasting about on their socials, but we know first hand how important they are, acting like an insurance policy against risk of injury and back pain, that means more consistent, higher quality training and faster gains over the long term.