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Before you embark on your Calisthenics & Mobility journey, we’d like to give you some tips on how to use this book.

You can choose to read everything in the order it’s presented or skip between sections. The many chapter and section cross-references ensure you won’t lose the thread and will, by the end, understand the link between mobility and calisthenics.

We’ve brought the authentic delivery style of our workshops to this book so we can bring the atmosphere of a live workshop to your home. Besides, this is a book about calisthenics and not about traditional German gymnastics from Saxony-Anhalt.

In this book, we talk about front levers and muscle-ups.

The book is divided into a mobility section and calisthenics section, which are further divided into theoretical and practical segments. The practical segments include image-guided explanations of exercises.

In these practical sections of the book, look for the following symbols, which provide simple illustrations of the most-important technical details for the execution of an exercise:

	External rotation
	Shoulders away from ears (depression)
	Watch your breath
	Maintain body tension (hollow-body position)
	Lengthen your spine

If you don’t yet understand all this terminology, don’t panic. We provide detailed descriptions in the following chapters and in the glossary at the end of the book.

Every exercise is also accompanied by a difficulty rating. To be exact, it’s a banana scale for Leon’s mobility exercises and a biceps scale for Monique’s calisthenics exercises.

= very easy

= easy

= somewhat difficul

= difficult

= gorilla-level difficult

But enough about legends and instructions. By now you’re probably impatiently tapping your feet, ready to dive into your adventure.