Starting calisthenicsish workout at the age of 30

I’m 30 now and I’ve never done proper workout my whole life. I’ve always been on the skinny side with 179cm height and 64kgs weight.

I have a natural flexibility but didn’t have strength. 2 months ago I decided to change it and started bodyweight workout of Recommended Routine by r/bodyweightfitness.

Now I have been training for two months and I must say first two weeks were hell. I was shocked how weak my arms were. Especially for pull ups and dips. At start, I was not able to do proper pull ups more than 2.

For dips, it was 0! Dip are damn harder than pull up for me. So I started with negative progressions of these exercises. First, I try to start with proper normal forms and once I’m out of power, I switch to the negative form.

At the moment, I can do 12 proper pull ups in a total of 3 sets. So it is like: first set [5 proper + 3 negative], seconnd set [4 proper + 4 negative], third set [ 2 proper + 6 negative].

Same system for dips as well. Sometimes I lose my form but I try to keep it correct as much as I can. I don’t have much problem for other exercises in the program. I’ve been progressing good with them.

Now I’m around 72kgs and feel much more stronger than before. Tho, it still feels shit to wake up 5 am in the mornings as I don’t like workouts in the evenings because I don’t feel light enough for workout after dinners and I love my evenings chill.

So I wake up at 5 am, workout, take a shower, eat oat meal breakfast and go to work. Sometimes I feel tired but overall good.

Increasing my meals from 1 meal a day to 3 meals day was difficult tho. I always have eaten 1 meal a day for years. After starting workout, I feel like I have no choice but to eat 3 meals a day to get that damn protein.

I guess I won’t quit it at this point because I have turned it into a lifestyle already. Still, if there is anyone out there who also started working out recently and being bullied by pull up bars like me, just email me and let’s suffer together because misery loves company lol..