EvoFit is primarily a calisthenic fitness system, that’s focused on truly functional fitness and longevity.
EvoFit has borrowed the best elements from many different fitness systems to make it as holistic and balanced as possible.
Calisthenics: using one’s body weight and qualities of inertia as a means to develop one’s physique
EvoFit combines training philosophies, principles and exercises from disciplines such as:
Although there is familiarity in common calisthenic exercises and the list of disciplines above, the merging and combination of these makes for fitness system that is much more complete and holistic, as in isolation, most have shortcomings.
Our different workout types and the ability to scale it to your abilities makes for a workout system that’ll make you truly functionally fit, injury free and healthy, whether you’re 8 or 80 years old.
First master your body, then master external objects.
We do not use weights as a primary exercise tool. Its use is limited to movement categories like lifting and carries and also to load certain exercises as is relevant and sensible.
As lifting is a fundamental functional ability, we favour the strongman philosophy of lifting objects instead of barbells. Our object use is therefore limited to things like slam-balls, sandbags and kettlebells.
Far better functional strength and abilities can be gained through body-weight (calisthenic) training compared to training with weights in the traditional sense.
One has to remember that when thinking about what is functional, it is usually through the lens of what a person can do with their body, not what they can do with external objects…
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