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I used to do a lot of bodyweight training back when I was doing Kung Fu. The big problem with bodyweight training IMHO is that it's really hard to get your rep count into hypertrophy range consistently, and it's also really hard to steadily increase the intensity as part of a programming cycle. However, for general fitness it's superb. If you're very mentally strong in your workouts you can definitely do bodyweight work for hypertrophy.


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Yeah, basically the emphasis in the context of martial arts for most bodyweight exercise is mental toughness -- going as hard as you can and then gutting it out until you pretty much can't move anymore, rest and repeat until you think you're on the verge of hurting yourself, and stop before you do. There's no cycling in the way you think of weightlifting routines -- you just go balls to the wall always, and when you get to the point where you can do more, you just do it. When you get in good enough shape, you can cut the length of your work-outs somewhat because you can generate higher intensity in a short period of time.

Not very good for hypertrophy because it leads to constant overworking both in individual sessions and because you work out so many days a week. The recovery time isn't there. You could feed shaolin monks five steaks a day and they still wouldn't get big.