Is it possible to gain health benefits by following a calisthenics routine for a very sedentary person?
I am in the 30's and I admit to be very sedentary. Worse of all, with a hectic work schedule, a family with small kids it is very difficult (or impossible?) to find the time for a proper exercising without a complete life revolution, which is not possible now.
Still, I think that doing absolutely zero physical exercise is not good and will be worse the more time I let pass.
So I started thinking about doing at least something, in the only moment that I can think of: in the early morning, when everybody else is still sleeping. So ideally (?) I would get up at 6 am, do .. something? for some time, then begin the normal day (and, like the internet meme goes, profit!).
The question is: is this meaningful at all? can it really provide me with some health benefits? And what would be the magical "something" that I could do by myself in the living room without waking up wife and babies? I am thinking about some calisthenics but maybe I am so completely off that I don't even notice it.
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Some exercise is indeed better than no exercise. Calisthenics would be a fine choice, as would yoga, dumbbell work, running, or some combination of those options. Anything is better than nothing.
If you have half an hour, then twenty minutes of yoga to limber up before doing a bunch of push-ups, air squats, and pull-ups would probably hit the spot. If you have or acquire a pair of twenty-five (or more) pound dumbbells, you could use them for the squats as well as renegade rows, overhead presses, cleans and so on.
If you have fifteen minutes instead of thirty, then five minutes of yoga and ten minutes of calisthenics or dumbbell work would be great.
If you have five minutes, then a quick jog around the house followed by a set of push-ups and pull-ups would be quick and productive.
Working out every morning, or most mornings, or half the mornings, is enormously beneficial, especially compared to doing nothing.
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