Nah. None of them would.
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I may have completed it. But Louie had to bring up Shogun Assassin in the first 5mins. You can’t remind me of the film series that started the Samurai Splatter Flick genre in Japan and expect me to watch a bunch of angry men squatting in suits.
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My only Nephew who lives out of state just entered 8th grade yesterday. Based on the pic I saw ( not sure if i should post it even with his face edited out)… he needs to spend the summer with Uncle Dog and his older cousin.
Of course my view point is jaded…
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I feel your pain. My son has no desire to lift or exercise, except bouncing on the trampoline. I will give him this though, he has some hellacious glutes and legs 
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A pool was accidentally brought to my attention on one of my projects and it would be wrong if I participated, considering it’s a pool to guess how bad someone did. Although, being the competitive person I am, I threw my name on the white board as John Galt. Since people are afraid of me finding out, they don’t talk about it in front of me… however, I’ve heard numerous people say ‘who is John Galt?’
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I confess that I am so bad at lifting I can’t even cheat right.
Specifically, when I put on a deadlift suit, I deadlift LESS than when I don’t wear one.
I left the whole disasterous set-up and execution in tact so people can watch me fumblef**k through straps and set up just to not even be able to break a pull off the mats.
Perhaps the issue is that it is almost fall, and that I should be eating FAR more pumpkins in order to get the benefits of being a cheater cheater…
EDIT: Actually, let me save my failure with a bit of cuteness. I could NOT get the strap on my left side on to save my life, so I ended up coming in from the garage and asking my kid if they could give me a hand. Completely unphased by my lunacy, they paused their cartoons, strapped the velcro together on my shoulder and went back to the TV. I can’t imagine the conversations in the cafeteria where it’s like “What: you don’t help YOUR dad put on his deadlift suit?”
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I have the opposite issue. I have a bit of a home gym and both my boys (One is 6, the is other is 4) consider time in daddies gym as very special and love every moment we spend in there together. Too much maybe.
My 6 year old is wants to be the next Eddie Hall (or Jason Kenny an Olympic cyclist). The 4 year old just wants to beat his older brother.
We have regular argument about the validity or reps due to depth and or rest periods. And they obsess about their performance.
It cute to a point. But when they start out performing you (my 6 year old can do 15 pull ups my 4 year old holds an elevated L sit for 75 seconds), it just embarrassing.
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I confess to thinking that, if this is true, your son should stop training now and start telling everyone how he totally coulda hit 16 pull ups when he turned 7 if he stuck with it.
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Your deadlift “technique”, or however you define it, is obviously effective and valid (don’t care what form nazis say, if you lift 700 and don’t die you’re doing something right) but with a deadlift suit that only helps if you sit down and back, there’s absolutely no way a deadlift suit is going to help you haha, the point at which you get any rebound effect is lower than your lowest pull point.
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It’s not for lack of trying: suit just wanted to fight me the whole way! Haha. Still lots of respect for geared lifters as a result, especially with this being just a deadlift suit. It’s a big leap of faith to just find the bubble of the suit and ride it to lockout. I was getting close, but where the suit wanted me to pull was not where I was comfortable pulling, and just couldn’t pull the trigger on it.
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I have to wonder…how unconfortable is it for your crotch? I’m the type that never understood why guys like skinny jeans
It doesn’t feel super great, that’s for sure.
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So calisthenics is the new great trend I guess now?
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It’s great for people too cheap to pay gym membership fees AND with so much social anxiety they can’t be in a public space.
Which is a large demographic.
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I was semi into calisthenics when I first made the transition from distance running to lifting, it’s fun when you don’t weigh very much
Edit: Confession - I bought a pizza yesterday and was so excited about it I forgot that I left groceries in the trunk until this morning. I think the eggs and milk will be fine. The ice cream didn’t make it though, RIP
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Well dont get me wrong… I think most guys would do well in being able to do a basic level of BW calisthenics before they even consider sniffing a weight. I am just scratching my head over the mentality of just doing them exclusively .
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Just let you know tried a new place for dinner with the wife. Tried one of their on site brewed beer. This one made Guinness look and taste like water and damn after 2 of these bad boys I was buzzing for a few hours after.
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Agreed, exclusively doing calisthenics seems a bit off unless you’re competing as a bar athlete (which from my very limited knowledge means you like gymnastics but can’t do flips)
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When I raced dirt bikes calisthenics is basically all I did. I lived on a rowing machine, TRX straps, and a mountain/road/spin bike. Did absolutely nothing for body composition but made a huge difference racing.
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Confession: if you hit a bumpy road, you left a milkshake in your car
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