When I first got serious about calisthenics, I kept my routine as simple as possible: a dragon flag progression and a back lever progression.
As I build my habit, and found a little more time in each day to spend on fitness, I felt the urge to expand my workouts.
Your body is a finite canvas, so in calisthenics, and all fitness in general, there is a ton of overlap between muscle groups and skills which means there are lots of shared exercises in lower branches of the progression trees.
For example, the Dragon Flag is a core heavy skill, and so is the L-sit. Doing a bunch of leg raises will build strength for both of them.
So I combined the L-sit skill into my Dragon Flag day.
Obviously these exercises aren’t one-to-one. The L-Sit requires compression, while the Dragon Flag has your body fully extended.
It only makes my workouts longer if I decide to do more.
If I can find an
Watch this video from @MindfulMover (it’s a simple concept so watch on double speed):
He’s talking about transference from calisthenics to weight lifting, which is not exactly what I’m going for here. But you get the point, right?