What's your greatest setback that's currently hindering you from progressing as much as you should?

I do weightlifting in school, as well as calisthenics. For weightlifting, we have a strict schedule: - Monday - Chest & Arms (Bench, PowerClean) - Tuesday - Legs (Squats, Lunges) - Wednesday - Conditioning (Jogging, Abs) - Thursday - Chest & Arms (Bench, Curls) - Friday - Legs (Front Squats, Lunges) I'm trying to learn skills like front lever and handstand pushup, but I don't know how to fit that training into the schedule of my school in a way that my body isn't exhausted. Any recommendations?

Recently I was able to do a planche for 1-2 seconds, and I thought I somewhat unlocked it. Until I recorded myself and saw that on each attempt, my legs were too high and it looked like 10% of a planche press. I tried going "lower", but it never really worked. How do I fix this?

Phase 1 is when you've just started out bodyweight training and are learning the basic movement patterns, building general strength and mastering body control. Right now, your goal is to develop proper form for the fundamental exercises such as the push-up, squats, negative pullups (or full pullups, if you're able to do them) and all in all just creating a good foundation of strength. Requirements - 0 to 15 push-ups, squats, and assisted pullups (negatives, with resistance bands or however you may like) Phase 2 is what I refer to as the intermediate phase. You can now do more challenging variations of the fundamental movements such as decline push-ups, full range of motion dips, full range of motion pull-ups, pistol squats and so on so forth. You're starting to look more into the fundamentals of the static skills and so the first skills you're training for are the freestanding handstand and the L-sit. Mastering these will lead you to the more advanced skills and will build a solid foundation for your future calisthenics journey. Requirements - 20 to 30 push-ups, 10 to 15 dips and 5 to 10 pullups, all done with clean form. Phase 3 is when you start to really stand out from the crowd. You're now solely focusing on mastering complex bodyweight movements such as the muscle-ups, handstands and more dynamics skills such as the L-sit to handstand. Your training is very different from what you had started with, since now you've got very high volume in your training (generally speaking). By this point, you've got the kind of physique that looks athletic and what not. You've also started really going in on your static skill training, working towards the planche, front and back lever, etc. Requirements - You can perform a few muscle-ups, a freestanding handstand and a clean L-sit. So you can do advanced calisthenics skills such as the full planche, front lever and the back lever now huh? Congrats, you're now in phase 4 of your training. Since you've accomplished these advanced skills, now your sole focus in on mastering these skills and increasing your strength and power as much as possible. At this point, you can actually call yourself a calisthenics athlete. Now you've got a physique so good that when people look at you, they ask you how you train, whats your diet and so on. You've got enough experience to teach people around you how to start their own journey. Exercises such as the muscle ups are now part of your daily workout routine because they don't feel as hard now.