The Types of Muscle Fibers Calisthenics Activates. Can Calisthenics Stimulate Hypertrophy?

In this video, I discuss the types of muscle fibers that all calisthenics exercises activate and how we can utilize them to stimulate muscle and strength growth.
I talk about the slow-twitch muscle fibers that are typically activated during endurance training or by aerobic exercises like Jogging, Jumping Jacks, Jumping Rope, Wall-Sits, and much other light and basic bodyweight exercises. These muscle fibers utilize aerobic metabolism and oxygen to provide energy and that is why we utilize them more often than any other and especially when we are doing a prolonged cardio activity such as running at a steady pace.
Then moderate fast-twitch muscle fibers that are activated by almost all the compound calisthenics exercises.
Therefore, depending on your fitness level and strength, pull-ups, squats, pushups, dips engage these types of fibers, also known as Type 2a muscle fibers.
So, in general, calisthenics relies on these fibers more and they are associated with hypertrophy aka muscle growth. The Type 2a muscle fibers activate mostly during anaerobic activities but it can also use oxygen if your fitness level increases with adaption and through training.
They are larger in size than Type 1 muscle fibers and share almost the same color, red.
At least, the third muscle fibers are called Type 2b which are the largest and activated only during short bursts of power or when you use high speed and acceleration or lift heavyweight. Sprints, uphill sprints, and trail running with extreme elevation gain are but some to mention belonging to athletics, which is still bodyweight.
Deadlifts, Muscle-Ups, Explosive Dips, Pushups, and Pull-Ups are the types of exercises that should engage these type 2b muscle fibers.
The type 2b muscle fibers use glycogen and anaerobic metabolism only but with training, they can turn to type 2a. They remain the same but enhance their capacity to utilize glycogen and oxygen too at some point. Every exercise that is extremely hard and burns you out in seconds will utilize these muscle fibers and calisthenics makes no exception.
It all depends on how strong you are. For some, regular pull-ups and chinups alone may be sufficient to activate these largest muscle fibers.
For other more advanced, they need Towel Pull-Ups, Muscle-Ups, Lever Pull-Ups, One-Arm Pushups, Handstand Pushups, and plenty of plyometric exercises.
Depending on the force and tension, we might utilize all the muscle fibers at once. But as a general rule of thumb, we firstly utilize the endurance slow-twitch fibers and only after the moderate and lastly, type 2b, also called fast-twitch muscle fibers.
Volume training or high-volume calisthenics relies mostly on type 2a but because of high-rep training, it eventually triggers all of them. This alone promotes muscle growth. So yes, it's possible to grow muscles with calisthenics if you know how to activate the proper muscle fibers and how to change your training style and methods to keep challenging yourself.
Everything is also related to muscle fatigue and variety!

Therefore, if you are in a quest to find out how to build muscles with calisthenics exercises but also which muscle fibers they engage, then watch my video.

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