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December 2015 – Manila: Contestants
from different parts of the country, some even came all the way
from Baguio and
Mindoro, gathered last Sunday to compete in the first ever
SPARTA Battle of the
Bars Calisthenics Competition held at SPARTA in Mandaluyong
City.
The SPARTA
Battle of the Bars was said
to have been the biggest Calisthenics event ever organized in
the
country. At least 300 practitioners gathered at SPARTA, as they
witnessed
different contestants slug it out in the various rounds of the
competition with
bodyweight exercises.
SPARTA is at
the forefront of bringing
Calisthenics from underground to mainstream. It opened the
Sparta
Calisthenics Academy earlier this month, with the goal of
encouraging more
Filipinos to try it out.
According to
Sparta Calisthenics
Academy’s consultant and designer Ton Vergel de Dios,
“Calisthenics as opposed
to working out in a traditional gym is better because it is very
honest.
You can’t cheat a pull-up or a single legged squat. It is how
athletes
and warriors have trained for centuries. Calisthenics, uses
body weight
movements and has benefits which include increasing strength,
balance, power,
endurance, and of course, aesthetics.”
Second place
winners for the Tagteam
Freestyle Round from Baguio, Farell Salvador and Jeric Tercero
also noted that
the advantage of Calisthenics or Street Workout was that “you
can do it
anywhere, you don’t need to spend and get gym membership.”
Winners for the
Solo Freestyle Round
were, Reo Ray Minasalbas (1st place), Dennis Deltow (2nd place),
Renier
Barnuevo (3rd place).
Winner for Longest Deadhang was Vincent Acuna, while for Longest Plank, it was Tom Madrid.
Other winners
include, Henz Ledesma for Longest Squat Hold, Joel "Ryobi"
Cataag for
Most Number of Consecutive Pull-ups and Ezeciel Santos for Most
Number of
Consecutive Muscle-Ups.
Vergel De Dios
further notes, “We are looking forward to more events like this
one, and we
intend to keep growing the Calisthenics community here in the
Philippines for
advanced athletes but also for those who want to take the first
step in
starting their fitness journey. After all, it's all about
progressing from
wherever you are now to becoming a better version of yourself."
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